Word: distinction
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Feigned compliance is the term used by Lucian Pye, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to describe such self-protective make-believe and the obedience it spawns. As a trait central to the Chinese character, feigned compliance has distinct Confucian roots, and Confucius is very much in vogue in China today. Not for that part of his philosophy that extols good-heartedness and broad-mindedness, but for his celebration of authority, hierarchy and anti-individualism. For the purposes of China's leaders, what counts is that Confucius presumed the ruler's right to rule...
...eliminating freshman eligibility would unfairly single out first-year students as the only athletes who need time to study and rearrange priorities. Expelling Proposition 48-victims with low college GPA's similarly misplaces the onus on a distinct group of athletes, this time those with SAT scores under 700. Athletic eligibility should depend solely on academic performance regardless of class year or SAT scores...
WHILE split into two distinct sections on Beirut and Jerusalem, From Beirut to Jerusalem consistently develops Freidman's underlying theme that both Lebanon and Israel, two very different societies on the surface, are actually beset by similar problems...
...organizing a political opposition was a crime against the state. A struggle among dissenting factions, he said, "is the only possible method of existence for a legislative body." Counting absentees, 388 Deputies said they were willing to associate themselves with this departure from Communist rectitude. Though that is a distinct minority of the 2,250-member Congress, the surprising thing is that an opposition faction exists...
...program includes four distinct sections: "understanding the South"; the "framework of schooling"; a panel of experts from around the country; and "self-reflection and identity...