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...line between real and authentic gets harder to discern. With Gore, it varies from moment to moment. When he chirps about devoting his life to "change that works for working families," he is just spewing a contrived phrase. But for what it's worth, I think I saw a bit of the real Al Gore a few years ago when I interviewed him about the environment. The session was supposed to last 15 minutes. It went on for 90 as Gore talked about ozone depletion, at times pulling out charts like a college professor. His passion seemed pretty real...
...every opening, Birkett typically receives around eight applications. He even has brought in an outside consultant to help him discern between candidates...
...striking similarity of the accounts reinforces their credibility and confirms the calculated nature of the atrocities. And last week, as a team of TIME reporters spent days in and around Pec (prewar pop. 100,000), it was possible to discern method in the Serbs' awful madness. Kosovo, the evidence suggests, was razed by a killing machine on orders that stretched directly from Yugoslavia's commander in chief Slobodan Milosevic to the armed thug on the streets. The stories of Pec reveal in miniature how the entire plan worked...
Kasparov's latest venture seems tamer. He will probably win this match with ease, if for no other reason than because too many chess ignoramuses like me will vote. Even in the case of an upset, though, his invisible opponents are safely human and no one will discern any apocalyptic meaning from the result...
...have to discern how she felt about things by understanding the patterns of her language," Ulrich says...