Word: versus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only at the game itself, either. On the Yale campus, everything was a comparison to Harvard. Ornamental Gothic versus stately Georgian architecture. More posters on their kiosks or on ours? Basically: which is better, Harvard or Yale? As if it mattered. As if anyone in the world who doesn't go Harvard or Yale cared...
What legitimate comparisons, then, can be drawn between Israel's vibrant democracy and South Africa's brutal tyranny? None. Why do we not see forums comparing South Africa to Sudan, where civil war places Islamic north versus the black-Christian and animist south? Why no forums comparing South Africa to China, where the entire people of Tibet were recently forced to assimilate? Simple. The proponents of the Israel-South Africa analogy are not interested in condemning South Africa. They gear their statements, in the tradition of the 1975 UN resolution, toward the delegitimization of the Jewish state. Whether Harvard should...
Harvard wins, 4-3. Great rivalry, B.C. versus Harvard. Let's do it every Thanksgiving weekend...
...question of humans versus computers, it's grandmaster versus machine coached by humans...
...question were one of diversity versus student choice, we would have to debate the relative merits of the two goals. But the debate is not about goals; it is about policies. As a policy, the present system is the best because it actualizes both goals, as opposed to randomization which disregards student choice for only a minimal increase in diversity...