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...author of such a claim disarms the audience by suggesting that he can distinguish between a terrorist who kills in the name of Islam and the larger Arab or Muslim community. And yet, at the same time, he confounds his own logic, planting the seed in his audience's imagination for lumping all the people with the funny Middle Eastern names into one great, big and undivided whole. Doubtless, some of his very best friends are Arabs...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Why Do We Point To Arabs? | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

...being here gives us no special ability to distinguish between wrong and right. If our Harvard-developed intellects are good for anything, they are perfect for coming up with new rationalizations and justifications for thing that are morally wrong...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Harvard's Rational Discourse | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

Hussain said he hopes the endowment will highlight Pakistan's non-Arab perspective on Islam, and further distinguish it as unique among South Asian countries...

Author: By Nate Barksdale, | Title: Bhutto Gives $100K to Islamic Studies Center | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...problem were that everybody already knew American history, than a Core class might be superfluous. We aren't so lucky. Far too many Harvard students would be hard-pressed to distinguish between Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson. A 1992 survey by Republican pollster Frank Luntz found that only a small minority of Harvard undergraduates knew the answers to such simple questions as "Who wrote the Declaration of Independence...

Author: By Andrei H. Cerny, | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

...case all of you were wondering, or wanted a clearer definition than the one I just gave, here is a list of qualities that distinguish together people from their harried brethren...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: All Together Now? | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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