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An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).
Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis write about their fixation with fashion models.
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It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.
Davis and Shorter played against Hancock, Carter, and Williams.
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Why, it's their Chineseness, of course.
Of course, it's their Chineseness.
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Time 's culture-heavy lineup includes Tiger Woods, Rosie O'Donnell, Babyface Edmonds, Don Imus, Trent Reznor, and Dilbert (of the comic strip).
Time has featured a lot of culturally important people
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This was the 10 th study since 1975--and all studies showed similar problems.
The 10th study showed problems
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Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.
A child who has lost a parent feels helpless.
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As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer.
Washington Week doesn't get around to Flytrap until the closer.
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Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.
ultimate fighting is a blood sport
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Whether the voters deserve it or not, we're likely to hear a lot more in coming spots about which man is better--or worse.
The voters will hear spots
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He is a sort of vanguard, and follows her upon exiting.
He follows her upon exiting.
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Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose?
Allergies serve no useful purpose
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Loyal visitors probably already know the URL or have it bookmarked in their Web browsers.
People find ways to remember their favorite websites.
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Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.
She experiences both extreme grief and extreme happiness
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But the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty ), has a thing about bringing macho men down to earth with a thud.
Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter, brought men to earth with a thud.
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And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay.
Jacob was smooth while his brother Esau was hairy.
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Natural dark-haired beauty--despised or exoticized for eons by Europeans, Britons, and Americans--has at last been universally recognized and welcomed.
Dark haired beauties have a long history of like and dislike.
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Today there are more than 300,000.
The amount is more than 300,000 today.
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Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it.
He disliked selling
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Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
They watched his tics and tried to correlate them with his grip on the sensor box.
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The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The trade organization has influence on global finances.
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USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.
There are many USA snapshots and regular graphs.
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In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter.
The latter tends to be ignored
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The high-end beers cost roughly three times as much as the cheapest ones, and twice as much as the middle range.
High-end beers are much more expensive than the cheap ones.
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The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.
The strategy influenced politics
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To get your favorite parts of Slate
Slate contains different parts
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To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing ...
On the front page of the New York Times was a well-told story of an El Salvadoran immigrant.
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Still, Frisby did a better job than Woodward in offering meaning.
Both Frisby and Woodward offered meaning.
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But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.
He finds deceit easy.
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Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries.
Nonmember countries of the United Nations can't be hired as verification inspectors.
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But he's more comfortable behind the scenes
Behind the scenes is more comfortable for him
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Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate.
In Hatch's opinion, Americans deserve to know if a politician is a criminal or not.
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Don Michael Randel, currently provost at Cornell University, has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein, who stepped down in June.
Don Randel works at Cornell University.
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A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
There is a disagreement about who owns the rights to the Zapruder film.
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While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.
The closure of the noncompeting branches will cut about 15,000 jobs, which would extend great hardship to their families as they look for new work.
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This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
A number of artists thought that Dove's art was too simple
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A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
43,519 ineligible students incorrectly received subsidized loans.
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The civil rights movement was great.
People have fought for civil rights.
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The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it.
Adventurers receive joy from being the first to do things.
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Hence our use of Hanukkah rather than Chanukah.
Chanukah is no longer the correct spelling
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But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?
Without hesitation the answer is no.
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He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves.
Valves are made in Asia.
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Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race.
Upon reflection, they realized that issues of skin color (otherwise known as racial issues) comprised the majority of their observations.
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[E]ven after being taken down a notch or two, [cities] will remain, by virtue of their concentrations of energy and intellect, at the center of the American political imagination.
Despite everything the cities will still be around.
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Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale.
Waas' byline appeared in the Los Angeles Times
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Similarly, the idea that Native American babies, or black babies, or whatever, have some mystical genetic affinity with their own kind is silly.
There's no such thing as a genetic affinity.
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But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf.
He wanted her to lie for him
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I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.
Women showed spirit during the World Cup
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Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection.
The Secret Service protects the president.
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I think Wolfe is right about the potential of this kind of novel, one that takes us through unexplored precincts of our own society while spinning a good yarn.
Wolfe thinks these novels have potential.
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This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.
The author finds McCain boring and uninteresting.
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( Slate 's Explainer examines the bill of attainder at greater length here.)
Explainer is a part of Slate
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If one thinks Ken Starr is out of control, the other, ideally, should argue that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement.
an argument could be made that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement.
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The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes.
ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes made up the Indonesian movement.
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In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.
The author noted that religious females in Istanbul do not wear casually placed scarves on their clavicles.
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I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era.
It was a good introduction to the Romantic era.
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As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them.
If an offender is determined to commit a new crime, there is little parole agents can do to stop them.
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They would need to maintain complete silence about it.
They can't say a word about it.
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Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.
Starling was hired to act as a bodyguard against the paparrazzi.
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Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
Joel Klein is the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
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Best of category is a tough one here.
The best of category decision is difficult
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I was about to say that studies showed no connection.
I believe that the studies showed no connection.
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The changes were attributed 1) increased cohabitation
More people are living together.
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The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected.
A majority of the members of the House voted for the bill banning partial-birth-abortion
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Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too.
certains act only become a problem when done by a large number of people.
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Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment.
Lind argues that the USA (aka the United States) should avoid taking unnecessary actions.
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Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.
Congressional representatives will be voting on impeachment articles soon
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If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc.
In an opinion, the described treaty should resemble another.
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The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.
The internet is a catalyst for the general advertising industry.
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The Republican Party leadership wants Starr to deliver nothing until after the elections (Shields; George Will, This Week ; Gwen Ifill, NBC's Meet The Press ; Tony Blankley, CNN's Late Edition ; and David Bloom, Meet the Press ). In fact, Orrin Hatch's comments on the shows this week should be construed as signals from...
Orrin Hatch of the GOP, otherwise known as the Republican Party, seemed to want Starr to hold off on making a report.
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Your wanderings on the Web leave more footprints than you may realize.
The things you do online can be tracked back to you.
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Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading.
Expunging abilities of Washington solely of jurisdictional frontiers are nonexistent.
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It is a beautiful, sad little movie about betrayal.
The movie is small.
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But what about the other editors of the Daily Cal who couldn't say they'd been martyred at a campus once renowned for its leftism?
The campus was once renowned for its leftism.
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All these guys just have to be worried.
These guys are worried
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Much of this vulnerability may eventually be neutralized by encryption and other tricks.
encryption and other tricks could eventually end this vulnerability.
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The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends.
Nobody expected that this movie would be as good as it was.
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To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great!
I like saying I'm told I'm great to get the discussion back on track.
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With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.
NYC is experiencing low crime rates and good economy.
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I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
The treatise is updated every 12 months
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These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute.
The U>N has passed sanctions on Iraq.
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A basic tenet of biology used to be that the energy requirements of all living things are met ultimately by the sun--mainly through plants converting sunlight into more easily digestible forms of energy.
all things start with the energy from the sun.
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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
Rockefeller tried to help people.
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Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.
Delivery varies when selecting Next Day Air packaging.
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And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.
Congress spends a lot of money.
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The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India...
The population of the South Asian nations of India, Pakistan will soon surpass that of the Northern Asian nations.
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Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre).
The Brooks Atkinson Theater performed Wait Until Dark.
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But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.
Joe Montana played for the 49ers
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Most agree that he's a Clinton-style weather vane, adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.
He is adaptable and flexible so that he can meet the needs of his people.
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Blockades have always been regarded as acts of war.
It has long been considered an act of war to blockade another nation
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(DiGenova says it has since issued five subpoenas and has a hearing scheduled for late next month.)
DiGenova is employed by the court
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An exclusive report reveals that controversial feminist Naomi Wolf is advising the Gore campaign on how to win the women's vote.
Naomi Wolf is a controversial feminist who advised the Gore campaign.
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(Click here for a summary of the experiment.)
A short description of the experiment is available online
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The film gives the impression that Flynt has none, although he has five--to the best of his knowledge.
Flynt has five even though it seems like he has none.
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That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.
the jam was gone.
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At his 1977 trial, Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years for obscenity and for engaging in organized crime.
Flynt was a convicted criminal.
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What we mean--and should mean--by character needs to be disentangled.
They need to disentangled the character.
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After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.
Democrats provide more funding to the NEA than Republicans.
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Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing.
Writers are annoyed about it.
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He says this will make our system the best.
There are multiple systems, and he believes that this one will make ours the best.
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There is some symmetry in the diagnosis of Clinton, our therapeutic president, as patient in addition to healer.
Clinton is a therapeutic president.
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