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The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray.
The site will be completely closed.
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3 billion bill for the U.S.
The U.S. didn't have a bill.
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The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign.
Bush campaign announcement was late comparatively to most campaigns.
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Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.
Those who have an English accent and make the modify to American English will have lost their accents forever.
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The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.
US politicians use the rhetorical way out of a jam.
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Well, did her tune ever change.
Some people don't change their tune very often
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And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.
Funding was enhanced by Gates' name by over 100%.
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That about marked the end of Nash's career as a mathematical genius.
That was the beginning of Nash's illustrious career as a math wiz.
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Two tons of metal are not enough to defend your children, however.
Two tons of metal are plenty to protect the children with.
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In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.
The director uses farce to lighten the drama.
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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.
Many campaigns have the perils of drugs as their message
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Some people want a Caddy and others want a Chevy, he shrugs.
Luxury sedans are overpriced.
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
Russian Israelis want to be allies with Russia.
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Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure.
Forks will receive more funding than t can spend even with Port Angeles' conference center included.
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(But let's not bring up my cousins.)
It was presumed acceptable to speak about my siblings.
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The Seagram Co. expanded plans to advertise liquor on television, defying President Clinton's plea to honor the half-century-old voluntary ban.
Seagram Co. honored the half-century-old voluntary ban.
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Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.
Fans disliked it when the talk show host changed her appearance for the better.
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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.
Drugs are harmless and there are plenty of campaigns in their favor
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I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke.
I avoid all smoke.
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So all the money from the sales of the manufacturing operations, $3 billion, is going to a share buyback program, which is to say that instead of being used to create new wealth, it will simply be redistributed from the company to investors.
The investors are pleased with the company's performance.
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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.
The critic says The Usual Suspects does not work because it is derivative.
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Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace.
Microsoft doesn't have to follow the rules of the market place because of it's monopoly.
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These pronouncements on subjective issues annoy me no end.
The pronouncements are made by one person.
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Bush has several decisive advantages on this question.
Bush was better suited for the question.
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Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations.
Time disclosed news about fake medical operations.
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Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality).
A falsehood is always done intentionally.
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Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.
The allergy treatment industry is one of the slowest growing sectors of the economy.
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However, we put no claim on the other, lesser characters.
The lesser characters are not claimed by the author.
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Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers.
The stories by the media are misleading.
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What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat.
Stock prices are stagnant.
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The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them.
There are only a few girls that believe scarves mean freedom.
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It's OK, Leo Strauss Was a Devoted Someone should slip Kenneth Starr a tape of this week's This Week , where Kristol admits to being eliminated from the office NCAA pool.
Someone probably slipped Kenneth Starr a tape of this week's This Week.
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We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future.
The narrator concludes the story with the phrase "a better future".
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He became a devoted editor of George , which seems likely to founder in his absence.
He is the chief writer of George.
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But are the jocks serving Bradley well?
The football players are subservient to Bradley.
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The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful.
The poor often heaps rewards during holidays.
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The resistance literature often comments on Hitler's amazing luck, or his uncanny ability to sense danger; but the failures of the resistance might be better ascribed to the calculated unluck of the resisters, their own ability to sense danger and step away from it, and their overall minuscule number.
There was no Resistance or literature by a resistance of Hitler to speak of.
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Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.
The allergy treatment sector would see a huge level of growth within a short timeframe and become a billion dollar industry, almost overnight.
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Contrary to press reports, it's possible that someone entered the house from outside.
The newspaper published an incomplete story.
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In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic.
The audience was almost put to sleep by Saxton with dull delivered non-facts.
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Who can I report disaster fraud to?
Searching for disaster fraud will provide information quickly on who to contact.
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The errors range from the trivial (misspelling the name of former Gov.
The former Gov. misspelled their name.
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He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate.
He has 3/4 of a chance to be in serious trouble, and lose his job by next week.
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The important question is not whether these stories are true
The stories are defiantly true.
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I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.
On This Week, Senator Tom Daschle, was getting annoyed and wanted to discuss other issues of importance.
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I find it interesting that Alfred Gingold, in Onward, Christian Clothiers, doesn't have a problem with pro-abortion T-shirts or vulgar T-shirts (shit happens, coed nude basketball, bitch on wheels, etc.) but finds it necessary to tee off on evangelical Christian apparel.
Gingold scolded the people for wearing vulgar T-shirts.
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Government-mandated integration is wrong, he writes, because any endorsement of racial preferences is immoral.
Because the writer continued to criticize the government on it's stance about forced integration, the government would feel the pressure to reassess it's position on the matter.
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The Louis XV story reminds me of one of Ronald Reagan's favorites--about the Muslim philosopher who said that the king came to the throne with high taxes and departed with low revenue.
The Louis XV story has a completely different meaning than the proverb.
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Twenty-five days after that conversation, Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office and told him face to face that he didn't want him as a running mate.
Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office to reaffirm their partnership, and to let him know that he is the only qualified person to be his Johnson's running.
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Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.
Websites have to follow rules from more than just their home country.
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It's dark.
It's sunset.
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is that it sometimes finds those answers too predictably.
A few times, the answers are very difficult to determine.
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Mavis believes the deaths are accidental, but circumstances suggest that the act was at least unconsciously volitional.
An accidental death can be harder to accept than a volitional one
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The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.
The media made inferences.
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Pollard handed over information about how the United States tracked Soviet subs.
The US was unable to follow Soviet subs.
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When they watched these films in the presence of an authority figure, however, the Americans' facial expressions were essentially the same as when they watched the films alone, whereas the Japanese showed much less negative affect, smiled sometimes, and actually masked negative emotion with smiling behavior.
Japanese people generally don't want to ruffle any feathers.
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He is able to see that scholars have been covering up the crimes of the artist to protect him from justice.
The artist stole from others.
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He's got plenty of name recognition.
He has the highest name recognition in his field.
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(Click for more on the U.S. role in that restriction.)
To learn about the part that the U.S. played in the restriction, click the link.
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Of Decter's comments, the less said the better.
More is preferable when it comes to Decter's remarks.
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According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.
David Kendall is investigating Lewinsky.
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Milosevic points to 1989.
1989 mattered to Milosevic.
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The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.
High-minded individuals are routinely preyed upon.
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Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true.
More individuals have come to believe the accusations that have been made against Clinton, due in part to the plausible nature and truth behind them.
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The drive to find and eat food was integral to the survival of our early ancestors.
Our ancestors have left us clues on what is edible or not.
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In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?
Private law practice has been stopped completely
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This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second.
The new connection will only offer a very small improvement in speeds, which will hardly been seen as anything special or innovative.
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Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.
The cost of making a phone call got cheap slowly.
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The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies.
Beer commercials sum up to 20% of all television advertisements during prime time.
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The speech was long and, I can now see, rather platitudinous.
The short speech applauded no one.
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I was greatly encouraged to see Michael Goff's proposal of a Microsoft fashion-upgrade strategy, titled Dressing Up the Nerds.
All of Michael Goff's proposals were about tech business strategy.
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Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon.
Some shops would have preferred to work full time the whole week
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It's possible that Besieged is meant to be vaguely The African is seduced by the crumbling decadence of Europe while the European falls for the childlike simplicity of Africa.
Besieged is far from being about the different experiences that each character experienced in an unknown place.
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The first lies in the assumption that all three-second periods are worth the same.
There is a preconceived notion that all three-second periods have the same value.
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Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.
There were more than 120,000 civilians that fled Moscow.
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Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Neukom added, We've always competed fairly, and we will continue to do that.
Bill Neukom is the Senior Vice President of Microsoft.
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As a jazz composer, Sun Ra never fulfilled the bright promise of his early recordings like Jazz in Silhouette . But by founding a cult, he earned a lasting place in the larger culture, which otherwise might have eluded him.
Sun Ra found his place in culture through the finding of a cult and not through his early jazz.
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You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the dire...
The author makes a remark on how Vinterberg's movie goes against the matriarchy.
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S chool Since the Columbine killings, there's been a special focus on depictions of adolescents committing mayhem in school.
Teens with weapons has caused a focus on the topic of shootings in education centers for kids for years now.
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The authors claim to demonstrate that high IQ is more predictive of economic success than any other factor, and that low IQ is more predictive of poverty and social breakdown.
Poverty predicts high intelligence according to the authors.
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Sexual haressment is unknown within the Republican Party
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Instead, Bradley repudiates the word.
Bradley was unaware of the word.
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Other candidates may be sexier at this hour, but once we go through the battering of New Hampshire and Iowa it might be a different story, says Connors.
Connors believes the outcome is going to change.
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DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
Some believe that linkage is a technical necessity.
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Unlike the Europeanists, the Liberal Humanitarians have turned hawk for moral reasons.
Moral reasons had Liberal Humanitarians turn hawk.
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Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.
Johnson's physical and emotional features are both innate.
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As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the wreckage of a large part of economic theory.)
Modern economics was established after 1960.
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Suppose, for example, that an estate of $400 is to be divided among creditors who claim $100, $200, and $300.
The creditors already claimed their money from the estate, which now has zero dollars.
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Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.
Few perceive hypocrisy in the attitudes of those who support income redistribution.
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Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victor...
Cohen copied Paul Breines' book.
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The Post reminds readers of what else she said (Hillary's words are in italics):
What Hillary has said is featured in The Post.
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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Clinton's reputation relies solely on his own actions and nobody else.
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Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy.
Maxwell achieved a positive outcome that evening
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While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine.
One could incur in a fine for poisoning a dog
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Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.
Everyone has a plan.
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Let me enlighten Almost every time I need to use the disabled stall (I am in a wheelchair), I have to wait for an AB to leave, and they all apologize meekly when they leave.
The author feels some shame for telling others to leave a disabled stall.
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Earlier, Novak actually ask ed Carlson if he could interrupt!
Novak asked Carlson to shut up and stay quiet.
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Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.
Poblete told everybody congress is rethinking about posting them.
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The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it.
Graham's Post has an editing department.
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There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.
The name "Pass the Trash" was coined by a local businessman.
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