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Newsweek 's cover Home schooling--it's not just for zealots anymore!
According to Newsweek, home schooling is becoming more common and accepted.
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One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.
Cybill Shepherd and Robert Martin will never get back together.
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The theory that only a monopolist can price discriminate is standard textbook fare, and it's borne out by a lot of observations.
Monopolist are known to price discriminate.
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I never spoke to my aunt, and I am not a student of the large literature by and about her.
They never spoke to or studied about their aunt.
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Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.
The internet swayed the result of the 1996 US elections.
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Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.
Kaufman could have had many chances to stop the Saturday Night Live call-in voting.
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a consuming addiction, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden.
Stephen Holden works for the New York Times.
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On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips.
The table was decorated with flowers
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That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.
It is encouraging you to have human contact.
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Here's the way one investment industry correspondent--who prefers to be nameless--put it to me.
The guru wanted to keep his identity shrouded in mystery.
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Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Super Bowl XXXIV will host Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams.
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(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
The analogy about the fiction and nonfiction is a good one.
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The cover story reports on Robert McNamara's visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.
Robert McNamara visited south eastern Asia.
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Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.
He values multiculturalism over Western Values.
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two or more of the above.
Phrase is unintelligible, cannot clearly answer the question.
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Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy.
Jennifer is the executive who made the Shopping Avenger happy.
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The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994.
The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating
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Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans.
Jim Nicholson is a Republican leader.
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In 1982, Ronald Reagan invoked this right to keep EPA documents about toxic-waste disposal from Congress.
Ronald Reagan wanted to keep information about toxic waste from Congress.
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Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people.
Barry disagrees with the two laws
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First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.
We are right whenever both sides are angry.
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If they want to support me in the objectives I have outlined, that's fine, but I don't take positions or make votes in response to offers of contributions.
The narrator has specific goals they want to achieve
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Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?
There are questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald has passed away, or is living in Russia.
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What's worse, Wolf flip-flops in her opinion of The Slut every few pages.
The Slut was evaluated in various ways by Wolf.
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Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances.
Republicans envy him
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It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.
The author hates the movie.
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Academia's most popular one-year fellowship, the Guggenheim, has been awarded to dozens of academics, including the University of Chicago's Neil Harris, who will research the history of the American urban newspaper building, and Williams College's Richard Stamelman, who will study the literature and culture of perfume.
The Guggenheim has been awarded to a student of Williams College.
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Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
Laibson is involved in games of strategy against their future selves
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Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition.
Nobody noticed her condition.
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Living poets will continue to be eligible as well.
Poets that are alive are able to participate.
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Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.
I enjoy smoking indoors.
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The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son.
Monica was charmed by the President.
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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
The propaganda examples are laughable
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Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier.
Investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments that make hedging easier.
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But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.
It has saved the author before.
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They are using us, and I need help with this.
We are being used.
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Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.
In the heat of the moment, Chatterbox stormed away from the meeting to shop for reading material.
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The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and Th...
The scandal has been very beneficial for the news media.
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It costs virtually the same amount to produce, no matter how many people use it, and no matter how heavy the use.
The amount of people and heavy use has no effect on the cost to produce it.
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Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the word around town has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley B...
The Department of Justice is trying to be fair by probing into a former RNC chair.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
There are limits on the First Amendment.
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Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.
The commander of the Russian forces motivate what forces he had and halted the German offensive.
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[This last is a dig at Jesse Jackson.]
Jesse Jackson was criticized
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It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.
It is behavior unbecoming an adult.
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Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).
The disease process is not yet understood.
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Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.
They have tried making the form easier to use.
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Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off.
You should remove the helmet
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The USAT lead states that leaks indicate that in his deposition last Saturday, Clinton was asked detailed questions about his sexual history with at least four women, including one woman escorted by a state trooper to a rendezvous just days before he became president.
Clinton had a deposition last Saturday.
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And those are just the towns along Lake Como.
Many residents inhabit the shores of Lake Como.
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A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate.
Debate and publicity are at center stage in political theater.
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If so, it seems to have worked.
It appears that it worked.
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In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.
Serbian President Milosevic had the body of a 600 year old hero used as a symbol of Serb power.
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Virtually all the fans with whom I have spoken over the years (quite a friendly bunch, actually) consider the absence of big wrecks, injuries, etc., a key component of a good race.
Racing fans do not like to see drivers injured.
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The greatest events and achievements of the past 1,000 years are reviewed, including the miraculous growth of prosperity since 1750, the persistence of the city, the emancipation of women, the rise of the law, and the invention of limited liability (the key to the rise of equity corporations).
Women have gained a lot of right in the past 3 centuries.
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The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served.
The court decided to reduce her prison time and charges.
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No question, taxes can affect behavior.
Taxes affect those being taxed.
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They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.
The entire pundit establishment was not a big fan of William Ginsburg.
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Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine.
Thompson performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine
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Missed the link to more blather on independence?
The link leads to information about independence.
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
A man is dancing around.
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The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising.
Bush's people feel positively towards Internet advertising.
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Civility is not one of the major virtues.
Civility is a virtue.
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When I interviewed Klein for my piece about the Microsoft case, he singled out Brian Arthur as the economist who has most influenced his thinking about the way in which high-technology markets operate.
High-tech markets are the specialty that Brian Arthur has chosen.
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Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.
The author doesn't agree with obstructing good ideas.
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Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.
The author's new keyboard is top of the line.
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Sportscaster Marv Albert denied charges that he had assaulted and sodomized a female acquaintance.
Though accused by her, Alpert claimed she was barking up the wrong tree, accusing the wrong person.
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The long Relax, dynasties haven't killed the men's game.
The men still have a game.
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The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.
Slice of life means a lot of things to Richard LaGravenese
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He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years.
He reuses the same idea for last 20 years.
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But what it isn't is a rational way to run an industry.
It's an irrational manner of running an industry
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After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved.
Even though he came up with the idea for the project, he was minimally involved in its execution.
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Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.
The purview of parents has been received by the television and mall.
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And, clearly, everyone knew the facts of the matter today.
Everybody knows the truth.
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Oh, it often gets the least important things right, the facts, the small t truth.
It is unreliable, as it gets the least valuable parts correct.
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So, to pose the obvious Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?
There is a relationship between the Jewish identity and the nebbish.
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A capitalist, of whom there are one or two among us, I hear tell, might bear this in mind when targeting malt liquor, fast food, and sneaker commercials.
Capitalists often target fast food in their commercials.
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But giving drove him near to nervous collapse.
He was overly generous to his own detriment.
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Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only interc...
Traditionalists complain it will ruin the World Series
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(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)
Animals were favored by Mother Teresa.
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Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.
It is unpopular to hold the opinion of demand-side thinking.
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I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.
Smoking causes respiratory illnesses.
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Not as big a deal as the Pulitzers yet, but in the ballpark.
There is a lesser known journalism prize, nearly as prestigious as the Pulitzer.
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3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits.
The study should have had more clear guidelines and rules for its subjects; maybe include a diet journal to jog their memories.
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Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
Sea life and the oceans are harmed by fertilizer runoff.
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Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.
Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are on the outer edges of their respective parties.
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Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.
If true, Hersh's information would be damning.
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Other IOC members have resigned or are still being investigated.
The IOC is losing members to resignation.
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Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless.
Diseases contracted in early infancy sometimes have a lifetime impact on health.
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The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.
The strong bonds resulted from conditions that would be considered uneasy and worrisome by today's standards.
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This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.
The 1999 edition mentioned it in passing.
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Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.
Martha is the CEO of a company called Omnimedia.
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( explains what Greenspan really said.)
What Greenspan said was explained.
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Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.
Carter grew up in the country.
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The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared.
The Augean stables of K street is an easier problem to solve than the campaign finance.
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Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign and the Partnership for a Drug Free America propagandized ceaselessly about the perils of drugs.
Both Nancy Reagan and the Partnership for a Drug Free America worked towards a common goal about the perils of drugs.
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Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.
U.S. policy changes frequently as it responds to current events.
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In the first Tikkun guide, Reed edges out Bard for the top spot, for what it's worth, as any hierarchy is by nature counterharmonious.
Bard used to be in the top spot.
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Bush, or the Al Gore who is.
It is either Bush or Al Gore.
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Get rid of all guns?
Throw away all guns?
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There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.
Pig related idioms did not exist.
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