Word: distinguisher
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...tempo, fervor and construction, the piece resembles rock video. There is little plot and less sequence: it is hard to distinguish the present from the profuse flashbacks, yet it doesn't seem to matter. This may not be a cohesive play, but Frank Pugliese, 29, has the distinctive voice and emotive power of a true playwright. His unifying theme is race. Before the action begins, the boys have fatally stomped a black man who invaded their turf to buy a sandwich. They seem capable of redemption: the brightest (Adrian Pasdar) falls passionately if shamefacedly for a black woman (Cynthia Martells...
...healthy survivors may lead a genetically charmed life. Each of the body's cells possesses an identical inherited molecular trait, dubbed its HLA type, that allows an individual to distinguish friend from microscopic foe. Some people's HLA types are more common than others. Heredity specialists have already identified a few genetic types that appear to increase a person's chance of developing AIDS after infection. Now they are trying to determine if long-term survivors hold any inherited molecular configurations in common that could be responsible for their ability to resist...
Just as four-year-olds have an insight that three-year-olds lack, chimps have an advantage over lesser primates. When Povinelli tried his experiment with rhesus macaques, the monkeys proved unable to distinguish between the human who knew where the food was and the one who didn't -- even after 600 attempts...
...children. Harvard's tutors, however, have the privilege of suckling their entire families at the breast of Mother Harvard. The houses should first and foremost be student dormitories; they should not be the bedroom communities of the academic welfare state. Harvard propaganda claims that it is tutors that distinguish our houses from mere dorms--this is the same outrageous intellectual pretension that leads us to call majors "concentrations." Buildings where college students live are "dorms" no matter how intellectually over qualified the RAs who live there...
Moreover, both Bush and Clinton argued unconvincingly that the fleeing Haitians are economic refugees, and therefore unworthy of political asylum. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to distinguish between the two in a country where people are routinely punished for real or suspected political sympathies. Since a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, Amnesty International has documented thousands of beatings, detentions, tortures, "disappearances" and deaths in Haiti...