Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie rather indeterminately. "The movie is whatever the audience takes from it," says Cruise. "Wherever you are in life, you're going to take away something different." Kidman says, "I don't think its a morality tale. It's different for every person who watches it." But others draw distinct lessons from the film. Pollack says this "is the story of a man who journeys off the path and then finds his way back onto it, a man who almost loses himself because something awakens a darker part of him, and he follows it against his own better sense." When...
...come from Turkey?s NATO allies, particularly in Europe. While Western governments don?t doubt the viciousness of Ocalan?s insurgency, they tend to put it in the context of Turkey?s denial of the cultural and language rights of its Kurdish population: Turkey treats any assertion of a distinct Kurdish identity as a threat to the integrity of the state. This has allowed Ocalan, during his trial, to cloak himself in the mantle of an interlocutor for a disenfranchised population ?- obviously mindful of the fact that in the Kosovo conflict NATO ostensibly went to war to secure autonomy...
...particular American need: the public testimony of faith. He is the recognized leader of what continues to call itself American evangelical Protestantism, and his life and activities have sustained the self-respect of that vast entity. If there is an indigenous American religion--and I think there is, quite distinct from European Protestantism--then Graham remains its prime emblem...
...years of Radcliffe women living andlearning side by side with Harvard men transformedtwo distinct institutions into an unnecessarilymuddled entity both schools had trouble explainingto the outside world...
Although it is difficult to characterize a sprawling and diverse class, graduating seniors say that certain experiences shared by their class have tinged its perspective and given it a distinct identity...