Word: instead
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...program for internationalization at Harvard, however, is not breaking any new ground toward an increased awareness of difference of culture. It is instead strengthening the idea that the United States as a nation is somehow different from all other nations, which we deem "foreign." Harvard is also promoting the American misconception that internationalization is something that only concerns an elite...
BOSTON--Mayor Raymond L. Flynn sent a letter to community leaders saying he would not run for governor and would instead focus on curbing a wave of violence in the city...
...problems with such an argument are obvious: Why base moral judgments on what other people think? Why not, instead, work to change anti-gay attitudes? There's also another problem with this anti-intellectual argument. It's wrong...
...need firmer ground on which to base the justice of Lithuania's declaration of independence. And it exists. It has nothing to do with history. | It has instead to do with democracy, with a new principle of international relations or, rather, an old one that has been revived: the principle of democratic legitimacy. The Lithuanians are right to do what they did because it was an elected government, created by consent of the governed, that decided in the name of the people to secede. It is the democratic origin of that decision, not its historical antecedents, that makes it right...
Fractious politics are a Belgian speciality: in the past decade the government has fallen eight times. Belgians have instead looked to their monarch, Baudouin, for stability -- until last week, when the King became a commoner for two days. Confronted with a bill passed by parliament that legalized abortion, Baudouin, a devout Roman Catholic, had the Cabinet declare him unable to reign so he could avoid signing the measure into law. The Cabinet promulgated the law instead...