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...summer a couple of decades ago, my distinguished colleague Richard Schickel bemoaned the lot of a film critic assigned to write about the seasonal pack of muscle-bound action pictures. ?It?s not that they?re bad movies,? he said. ?It?s that they?re the same bad movie.? Our job, essentially, was to make cutting witticisms - to distinguish not between apples and oranges but between rotten apples and rottener...
Patterson said that the specific issues of 2004—a war and a struggling economy—distinguish this election from the last contest...
...group has pledged to distinguish itself as a neutral observer of a process that has often sparked partisan acrimony in the past. But despite actively recruiting volunteers from all parts of the political spectrum, May and O’Brien said staying free of bias would be no easy task...
Scadden’s suggestion that the U.S. should catch up is most troubling because stem cell research using cloned embryos, as in South Korea, relies on a process similar to human cloning. Defending cloning-based stem cell research and attempting to distinguish it from complete cloning, researchers explain that the cloned embryo is never implanted in a womb. But this is merely a procedural, technical distinction. The difference morally between cloning an embryo to be used for research and cloning it to create life is much less clear: In both cases, the researchers are cloning a person and playing...
Needless to say, this career combination requires a certain resourcefulness. Even at Harvard, Matt was never put off by the occasional need to improvise. The man who would come to distinguish between olive oils the way other people distinguish between cars was completely unfazed by the Adams House dining hall. “I loved it,” he says. “You’re in such control of what you eat there because of the whole condiments/salad bar thing...