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Apart from the fact that Gantt is an African American, there is little to distinguish one candidate from the other. Gantt, 53, is a self-made man and an experienced civic leader; Sanders, 64, is a heart specialist, an eminently confident sort of suture-self surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: WHO CAN TAKE SENATOR HELMS? | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...constant changes of character do justice to the often excellent acting. Only Page Leong (Nina and Masha) really seems comfortable with the constant transitions, managing to define and distinguish her two roles without overacting. Shishir Kurup solves this conundrum by hamming up Sorin so that he can play Taper/Trigorin with deadpan nonchalance. Christopher Liam Moore, on the other hand, makes little distinction at all between Cam/Konstantin and Simon/Medviedenko. As with other aspects of the play, enormous promise, here in the form of fine acting, is ultimately undermined by taking dramatic conceits like these schizoid duos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEKHOV GOES HOLLYWOOD IN TOO~HIP 'CALIFORNIA SEAGULL' | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

...catalyst without this quality can only distinguish between two completely different molecules in the same way that a rubber ball feels differently into a hand or foot, but fits the same in the left or right hand...

Author: By Halton A. Peters, | Title: Jacobsen Reaches for the Stars in Chemistry | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

...dance on the head of a pin? The truth is, a mechanical system that is complex enough (living or not) may mimic consciousness without actually being conscious. Your entire article might have been the result of such mimicry, as might this letter. Ultimately there is no way to distinguish real from false except via personal experience. I know I'm conscious, but I can't really speak for the rest of you. Peering into the brain is as futile as peering into a TV set to explain the mimicry of a sunset on the screen. ROY BUTTERFIELD Keighley, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Very in your face, I can't distinguish between the candidates, but I don't really care, not going to vote," says Gonzalo Martinez...

Author: By Tara I. Chang, Jonathan A. Lewin, and Rachel C. Telegen, S | Title: Running in a 'Popular' Election | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

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