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Some weeks before, Nash had declined a University of Chicago offer of an endowed chair on the grounds that he was scheduled to become the emperor of Antarctica.
Nash refused the offer of an endowed chair by the University of Chicago because he was going to be emperor of Antarctica.
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The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright.
Clinton was cooperative in answering questions for the newspaper.
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And when it stumbles onto a good subject for a series, like Ken Burns' history of baseball, it turns the show into a seminar on racism and labor relations, not the hit-and-run and the spitball.
Ken Burn's attempts to spark disagreements between people.
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And then he published a triumphal scoop.
He was able to publish a winner.
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But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.
If you're a spend now type of person that lacks self-control, you should still have plenty of money left over for your future self.
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We must make do with the public domain.
Making do with the public domain is impossible.
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The cover story on Trent Lott doubts that he can control the Republican Senate.
Trent Lott often times can get the Republic Senate to do what is right.
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All I missed was something more than winks and hints about the nature of the triangle among Cahill, his wife, and her sister (the lush Angeline Ball), with whom he fathered several children.
Cahill remained a bachelor his whole life.
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Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel.
The pulp-fiction author was applauded for their 34th novel.
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In return, the vice president occasionally helps them.
He returns favors grudgingly.
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Now I find I hate returning e-mails.
My love for returning e-mails has grown recently.
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Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
The person had a hard time getting going the next day.
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Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older.
Changes in personal values progressively increase with age.
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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.
1995 was a busy year for the financial sector.
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Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up
Randy supports Tough Love.
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In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas.
A fictional account about Lincoln is valid when plagerized.
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Back then, gold was $35 per ounce.
Back in the day, gold was $100 per gram.
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The agonized expression on his face looks like a kind of rapture.
His face expressed anguish.
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The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.
These pictures were highly sensitive material
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The speech was long and, I can now see, rather platitudinous.
The speech was all platitudes and nothing else.
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Dexfenfluramine (tradenamed Redux), a cousin of fenfluramine, was just released.
Redux the brand name drug was just released.
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After the Madness reads like going to court feels.
After the Madness is exhausting to read.
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I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it.
Disabled individuals don't always use a handicap stall.
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Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.
Austin Powers branded a Swedish Penis Enlarger.
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In 1995, Willey took revenge on a lover named Shaun Docking by faking a pregnancy and miscarriage and asking Steele to lie about it.
She told the truth about her abortion to her lover, Steele.
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Like my real name couldn't be Pierre LeCluck.
I have negative feelings towards the name Pierre LeCluck.
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Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani.
Clinton has to bring up the enthusiasm of minority race before the presdiential race.
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Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.
Those with an English accents have a hard time adjusting to American English
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Lewis won the close bout in a unanimous decision , making him the first undisputed titleholder since 1992.
It was a close fight, ending with a unanimous decision in favor of Lewis.
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This may be justified or not--we like him well enough around here!
Most around here like him.
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If we don't spend seven evenings a week together, if we don't talk on the phone each day during work, if I want to spend any time alone, my girlfriend pouts and gets angry, or cries.
My girlfriend behaves like a child if she doesn't get her way.
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What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
The exhibition was held on a Saterday.
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If you do know what cookies are and have set your computer not to accept them, our password/sign-in process won't work for you.
You should always allow cookies on your Internet browser to make your life easier.
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Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty.
Carlyle was inspired by several authors who wrote about population growth predictions.
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It's more scary than funny, especially to the brain tumor guy when he finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch.
This is a very frightnening prospect for the man with the brain tumor.
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There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.
He got a sore on his pinky finger from clawing the chair.
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Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.
You do not reciprocate the feelings shown to you by her.
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He has made his pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply argument in sealed court papers and also has publicly denied believing anything so foolish, Brill points out.
Brill believes he has stated that he didn't leak anything.
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A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson.
Anderson praises the originality of the piece.
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One reject was asked earnestly why on earth he had gone to live in Prague after graduation, surviving on odd jobs instead of starting a career back home.
The graduate moved to Prague mainly for the thrill and variety.
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They end up on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired . They foreshadow the world in which we're all either symbolic analysts or hamburger flippers.
Vanity Fair and Wired refused to put analysts and burger flippers on their covers.
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She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law.
She hates interpreting the law.
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He united the Western coalition, and he led Gorbachev over the precipice.
The Western nations were made chaotic by him and unable to agree.
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Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.
The magazines are highly critical.
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However, most college-bound Colorado students take a different college entrance exam, making the SAT an unreliable measure of school quality.
Most Colorado students take a different college exam which makes the SAT not a reliable measure of school quality.
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How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?
Adaptec was on that list.
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In theory, for-profits are equipped to do it through greater efficiency--economies of scale, easier closure of failing operations, and better access to capital.
For-profits are incredibly efficient organizations.
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But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch?
If we can change some behaviors when times are tough it won't affect us too badly.
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But Ved Mehta was always the butt of the worst abuse.
Many used to make fun of Ved Mehta
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They thrust their fingers within an inch or two of priceless paintings, pointing out the obvious.
The paintings were worth a lot of money.
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KAETHE (Offering the briefcase): NOW can you ordain me?
Kaethe offered a purse to them.
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(Aniston, by the way, might want to compare notes with The Enquirer says that she too fell victim to a freak rear end accident this month when an overzealous deer nipped her hindquarters.
According to Aniston a deer nipped her hindquarters in a freak rear accident/
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Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize
Banks should remain open, as a day off would hurt their operations.
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The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen.
Janet Maslin likes the film, The Usual Suspects.
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Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.
In a presidential speech every quote used must give credit to the original source.
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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...
This is commonly done.
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He'd probably pick it up in his fillings.
They would never stick to his fillings.
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Morris' small-bore ideas, as he calls them, made the presidency look somewhat ridiculous in 1995 and 1996.
Morris calls his ideas "small-bore" ideas.
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Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.
The woman who runs Millionaire is known for her somber outlook.
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This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.
The 1999 mentioned this.
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No wonder many hate it in France, especially for schoolgirls, who are meant to mix with others on an equal footing in all respects; and in determinedly modernized Turkey, too.
Schoolgirls dislike it in France.
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And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, i...
If more executives rode the subway, trains would have more privacy and less crowding.
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George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash .
This is not the first intelligence dispute between Britain and America.
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Unfortunately, that's a principle that doesn't seem to be at work in a capital market that just can't say no.
The principle isn't very helpful in a capital market.
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One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.
Random messages are common among online polling sessions.
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The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
The family gained more control over the king's work.
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are laughing at us saying if we make it thsese [ sic ] stupid ass Niggaz Will Buy it.
Their statement offended many African Americans.
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This was the 10 th study since 1975--and all studies showed similar problems.
The studies thereafter showed problems unfounded in the first 10 studies.
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The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.
Traditionalists assume all the trust fund balances are in the form of treasury bonds.
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As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer.
Not until the closer, does Washington Week get around to the real issue.
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Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore.
He is composed of multiple identities.
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In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment.
There were ties to the mob in the '60s and '70s to the family entertainment business.
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The oral-sex tape starts with well-known sex therapist Diana Wiley, in her poofy hair and broad-shouldered blue power suit, looking like she was about to explain how the sales force could increase its third-quarter productivity.
The video contained sexual themes and included a popular professional woman.
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Best of category is a tough one here.
The categories are so varied this year.
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Critics argued workers can quit a union if they don't like its political activities and that any debate about regulating union money should be taken up separately.
Critics have the workers' best interests at heart.
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(As a variation on this theme, one can imagine a strategic schooling motive, whereby the least-accomplished children get extra schooling, in the hope that they will become more interesting to converse with.)
The most-accomplished children are the only students to receive extra schooling.
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Congress, the United Nations, and other international forums.
Congress and United Nations usually agree on important matters
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The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.
The gentle giant played with ET while executing Starman in Billy Budd.
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The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original.
Everybody like the 1931 original.
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For sure, however, Microsoft has mainly been restrained by the knowledge that any crude use of its power would indeed land it in court.
Microsoft uses the power is has for good.
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I don't envy next year's teen-sex filmmaker the challenge of topping the pie scene or the cloudy glass of beer bit.
They are jealous of next year's teen-sex moviemaker.
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Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies.
It's obvious that these lawyers are lying through their teeth about the facts.
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Should we reward him for prosperity?
He did a lot of good deeds.
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Alternatively, he could have used his address to the Christian Coalition last Friday to criticize religious intolerance.
He had another choice where he could have use his address to disapprove of religious intolerance.
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I've always said that victory is the best exit strategy.
Using victory as a tactic is news to me.
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When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing.
It's very common for wealthy men to leave their wives for more attractive, younger women.
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This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their balance by going after the GOP.
Reporters and pundits do not like Clinton or the GOP.
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How can you be sure your programs are safe?
Is there a way to know if your programs are safe?
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Why don't you refresh your recollection for a while, and we'll talk when I'm back.
We will see when I get back if you can recall the event.
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As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells.
Harkin was alarmed by human stem cell patents.
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Greenberg's survey, for example, asks people who voted for Clinton to pick from a list of possible reasons why they did so.
Greenberg's survey only focused on those who voted for Clinton.
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Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.
There would finally come a change in average wages that people in countries like South Korea and Taiwan make, and this change would be for the better.
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And Stewart Brand's II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974), which recounts how this generation of computer kids designed computer games based on science fiction and used the Internet to fashion a universe of their own.
Many computer kids designing games based them off of their favorite book genre.
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The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality.
The Turkish army threw down their arms before any battle in the name of peace and living in a civilized society.
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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 triple the cost of the low-end beers.
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KAETHE (Offering the briefcase): NOW can you ordain me?
Kaethe was eager to be ordained.
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The piece might be weightier if it addressed such issues.
The piece is the weightiest piece ever.
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A two-hour look at the evolution of underwear, the special is as silly as it sounds.
The special was incredibly popular with viewers.
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Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics.
Her style was perceived as kid friendly because of her lyrics.
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I already know I am an idiot, but am I to be a happy idiot or a miserable one?
Although I am an idiot I have the choice to be a happy idiot or a miserable one.
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