Word: distinguishable
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...populated school of belief. Edamaruku says it's no coincidence that a series on the exploits of the monkey god Hanuman, showing the popular Hindu deity bounding great distances and carrying out extraordinary physical feats, is currently being screened on TV. "People in India often find it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality," he says. And the citizens of New Delhi might wonder how the secretary-general finds the calm for such measured thinking?with a howling, screeching, hairy, drooling, scratching Monkey Man on the loose...
...diversity goes beyond numbers. Changing George to Jorge doesn't automatically add cultural depth. The question of what counts as a "real" Hispanic character is more complicated than it is for African or Asian Americans, whose physical characteristics help distinguish them. Light-skinned Hispanic actors can end up like Jewish actors have--relegated to playing other ethnicities. Arguably the most visibly Latino character announced last week was campy superhero Bat Manuel (Nestor Carbonell) on Fox's The Tick. On NBC's UC: Undercover, Jon Seda plays a cop named Jake Shaw; on NBC's Crossing Jordan, Miguel Ferrer...
...squad mate Gerhard Klann are completely different. Klann would have us believe it was a meticulous slaughter of unarmed women and children. Kerrey recalls that the killings were an accident that occurred during a confusing night of war. Since the stories are so contradictory, and we can't distinguish the truth, we should put this behind us and move forward. Judgment of these men will not be in our hands. PAUL DALE ROBERTS Elk Grove, Calif...
...eyes of players and coaches, there are several features of club rugby that distinguish it from all other non-varsity sports...
...please, the first voice says, trying to be reasonable: The kids victimized by dodge ball must be distinguished from those poor children ducking bullets in the projects. Those growing up with daily drugs and gunfire get skewed enough. But the supposedly luckier kids, spared a demanding relationship with reality, are also liable to wind up morally undeveloped. It's the lack of reality that's their problem - their heads teeming with the violent illusions they pick up from movies and television, to the point that they cannot tell hallucinations from real blood, real death. They need rites of passage. Otherwise...