Word: diverting
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...part of the government itself. The Palestinians are discontent because Israel under Netanyahu is now, for the first time in the history of the peace process, insisting that they honor the agreements they have made--something that they are are clearly unwilling to do--and so, in order to divert attention from this in the eyes of the world media, they are shamelessly exploiting a minor civic decision that hardly even concerns them to focus the blame and censure on Israel. The Western press and our European allies are all too ready to publicize and sympathize with their whines...
...Harvard has more varsity women's teams than any other college in the country, and many of them are among the nation's elite. There is no pressing demand for a women's team that does not currently exist, nor are any women's teams being cut to divert funds to men. "There are no women athletes being denied athletic opportunities because of lack of funding," commented Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
This approach is unlikely to divert Dole from the drug issue. But it is most uncertain whether that will really give him much traction. "Cataclysmic" is how a Dole adviser describes the effect of a government survey purporting to show that teenage drug use doubled from 1992 to 1995. But polls of voters taken even after that widely publicized finding still rank drugs roughly fifth among the issues that most concern the electorate (the economy is No. 1). One reason may be that people do not see among their own children and the children's classmates quite as great...
...most surprising of the many errors in Daniel Choi's coloumn is his careless derivation of the word "diversity," which is related far less to "divert" than it is to the Latin diversitas, "difference, disagreement." I am amazed than Choi finds distasteful one of the most fundamental principles of liberal education--listening to those who disagree with you--but seems not to mind making public errors that could be avoided by spending two minutes with the Oxford English Dictionary. And Choi's injunction to "doubt...all philosophy, literature, art and music less than 180 years old"--this includes, incidentally, Beethoven...
...word university comes from the Latin word for whole. The word diversity, on the other hand, stems from the word divert, which means "to turn aside from a course or direction," "to distract" and "to amuse or entertain." Diversity is as false, fragmentary and shallow as liberal education is true, whole and deep. Let us not be diverted from what is good by what is fashionable...