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To paraphrase Pink Floyd (or was it Catullus?)
I am paraphrasing the great Wolgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the...
Brand and Toffler failed to grasp an understanding of modern cultural trends.
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USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.
The USA has the highest number of snapshots of any country.
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Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees.
This approach is the correct approach.
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Of course, your mileage may vary depending on how many users are connected to your T1 line, how busy the Internet or
The number of users connected to the line can affect the performance.
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Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.
Math wasn't my best subject as a youth.
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Shareholder value, which is shorthand for executives' obsession with their companies' stock prices, has become the prism through which most of corporate America now sees business.
Executives frequently disregard the shareholder value of stocks.
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Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
Critics feel she exaggerates her perfectionism to disguise the fact that she's a phony.
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Membership in this group would be defined in a possession-neutral way.
The group has members.
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And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up.
Kazin made me realize that New York is a place to express yourself and have a narrow lifestyle.
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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.
Ronald Reagan also liked the Louis XV story.
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The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.
The cover package shows a strong yearning to return to the roots of what became the industrial Silicon Valley.
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This means a housing strategy that shifts more decisively in the direction it has been inching under Clinton.
The housing strategy is taking a more convincing direction than it did under Clinton.
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But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
These vouchers are the solution to the problem.
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Nero was emperor until 70 A.D.
Nero was assassinated on 70 A.D.
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He's almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
Before 1974, he was not considered to be dark and untrustworthy.
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Messages about alcohol don't come out the way you say them when they're broadcast, he replied.
People full comprehend all statements about alcohol.
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(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.
The juxtaposition is included in the upcoming tests.
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The changes were attributed 1) increased cohabitation
A list of various changes were made after the initial set.
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AS PART OF HER DYING WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE
She wanted a chain letter about her death.
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According to Helen Lawrenson, a former Vanity Fair editor and Johnson's self-proclaimed ex-lover, this is a romantic view of him.
Lawrenson agrees with the romantic perspective of him.
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No offense meant.
The primary goal was to subtly insult others.
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He adopted an upbeat American organicism derived from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
He was interested in the works of Henry David Thoreau.
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Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues.
Monica wants a steady relationship.
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The territory's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5 percent or 6 percent in 1997 and 1998, up from 4.7 percent in 1996.
The territory is now producing more goods.
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The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime.
The label was illegible, leaving the prescription open for individual interpretation.
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This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution.
She became an attorney general as a defensive attorney.
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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.
Most agree that he adapts his positions to the demands.
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One Because they're cyber sages.
They are held in high esteem by the rest of the cyber community because of their work within it.
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But from Aumann and Maschler's work, we know that if you've found one consistent solution, you've found them all.
Finding a consistent solution means that there are no other possible solutions
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While Podhoretz may be correct in his opinion of Al Sharpton, his comments regarding Sharpton and Jesse Jackson possess a thinly disguised undertone of As he castigates white liberals for assuming that Negroes could do no wrong, his discussion of Sharpton's actions seem to say, Well, what can you expect?
Podhoretz's opinion on Al Sharpton was perhaps more appropriate in the 90s.
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The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives.
A lot of Asian-Americans attend a very serious music school in Scarsdale.
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We anticipate accidents at stock car races.
Often accidents do not happen at stock car races.
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Apparently there are enough 18-year-old book buyers in the first flush of marijuana to keep Hunter in tequila and narcotics for the rest of his life.
The amount of book buyers can keep Hunter in drugs and liquor for the rest of his life.
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If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan.
The average fans access the stadium seating.
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Why hasn't natural selection corrected the immune system's misguided response?
Natural selection has improved the immune system's response over time.
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There's more good stuff in Briefing, including Explainer, The Week/The Spin, and Slate
The Briefing had only bad stuff in it.
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To succeed, a propaganda campaign need not convince its audience; it need merely suck the oxygen out of the lungs of its foes.
Audiences are convinc by successful propaganda campaigns.
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I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.
This is the only viable option in the current situation.
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A sidebar speculates that Slobodan Milosevic is probably hoarding chemical weapons, including nerve gas, blister agents, choking compounds, and hallucinogens.
Slobodan Milosevic will be using in the future chemical armaments
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So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country.
She stole your emotions for herself.
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No way he'd be with her if this wasn't an instructional sex video!
The sex video shows homosexual love
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Dole gave 12 hours of formal interviews and lots more time informally, in part because, as his press secretary Nelson Warfield told me last week, he likes Woodward personally.
Dole ran for and became President in 2000.
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a) Had an adulterous affair with a young intern.
The young intern has caused a lot of marital problems with her affairs.
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As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed.
The Impressionists sighed at the end as they died one after the other.
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
A man called Sawyer's office to discuss his insurance policy.
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Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.
A few societies allow adultery.
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4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter?
Falwell wanted to argue about the Antichrist being a carpenter.
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What's more pernicious about the coverage is that it confuses the qualities of a crusader with those of a president.
The coverage clearly explains the difference in qualities between a crusader and a president.
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A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.
The women professor often teaches her students about William Shakespeare.
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It depends, in short, upon what the meaning of the word negotiation is.
Negotiation might not be the right word to use, depending on the meaning.
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Andy's If you must wager on sports, go to Vegas or stick with your neighborhood bookie--he's probably more reputable, if more clearly illegal.
The neighborhood bookie is clearly illegal.
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Exempted from Novak's observation might be executives at Reebok, who last year professed to have been unaware of connotations associated with the name they gave to a new women's running Incubus.
High ranking employees of a shoe company are absent from the observation.
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Such expressions might subtly shift market psychology and begin the gradual deflation.
A change in the current market attitudes could increase inflation even more.
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far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry
The song won several awards.
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For most quiz participants, the precarious venture that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.
Quiz participants cared little about TV shows that were failing.
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Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.
Clinton is praised by the ad.
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And it gives a package of free collectibles to any Webmaster who picks up its banner.
Webmasters with the banner receive a free package.
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No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
He moved out of the country.
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Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.
I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Demonstrations on television never look right.
TV demonstrates right on looking.
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Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.
Morrison uses clearly defined moments of history to define points in the work.
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5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring.
It will be remembered like the most exciting brawl of the century
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Newspaper reporters increasingly feel themselves irrelevant--marginalized by TV news and the Internet, ignored by a younger generation of nonreaders.
Newspaper writers have been more recently compelled to move into electronic media.
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13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring!
All people in this grade are excited to be friends with everyone in the grade.
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To which host Tim Russert replied, Why won't you abide by the 11 th Amendment and stop criticizing George W. Bush?
Tim Russert hosts a news program.
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Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.
Bauer’s beliefs on America morality were founded in mistruths.
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No one blinks 40-car motorcades that shut down interstates and gridlock traffic, the 200-plus-strong Secret Service delegation that accompanies the president abroad, the transformation of the open White House into an impenetrable fortress.
No one thinks twice about the White House being turned into a fortress.
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All we've done is checked that the first two creditors divided their collective share of $125 appropriately
One of the creditors got more than they deserved.
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Once considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether.
Not everyone agrees that there is a lack of purpose in the disicpline.
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(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in
Krugman's defends the World Trade Organization.
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(Surprisingly, outdoor air pollution is not to It's better for kids to play outside than inside.)
It's fine for the children to play outdoors today.
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I believe that your hearts will go on.
Your hearts go on through your eternal souls.
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That's 2 percent of the $100 billion total spent on ads in all media.
It is easy to not show where a lot of money goes out of the billions of dollars..
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Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson.
The movie ends with unclarity regarding Johnson's outcome.
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And that's why there's nothing at all wrong with this picture.
The person has never seen the picture.
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If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here.
The report in Dallas Morning News helped to shed more light into the event that took place between Clinton and Lewinsky.
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An Englishman who trained as an anthropologist before going to work for BBC Television, Barker clearly made up his mind about his material before his cameras began to roll--so it's no surprise that it feels prechewed and predigested.
Barker was trained as a geologist for BBC.
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Right now, I'd settle for a creative genius who could teach us how to think about the population problem.
We really need help on how to think about population from a certain kind of genius.
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As Vecsey puts it, women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.
In basketball men will always avoid fouls.
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As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.
According to Washington PR, corporate and public-interest lobbyists market almost all of these cases to the state attorneys general.
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Dissatisfied with the chump change earned by selling untaxed cigarettes and fireworks, the Indians have opened gambling casinos on reservations all over the state.
Casinos sell untaxed cigarettes.
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The Army discharged a 20-year decorated veteran one week before he would have been eligible for retirement benefits, because investigators discovered evidence of his homosexuality after an arsonist torched his home.
The veteran was well known for being a womanizer
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As Redgrave moves from person to person--worrying about what each is really thinking, and about the young man whose tragic fate she heard tell of from one of her guests--the movie floods with feeling.
The movie was intended to be more comedic in the interim.
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They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise.
The makeup artist took someone else on a budget cruise.
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either Lee or Chang or Wong.
Nobody is being talked about.
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Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist.
This book discusses realism explicitly.
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(I would bet that every survey of teens taken since Cain and Abel found that they named parents as their favorite role models.)
Cain and Abel did not like their parents.
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
I have never stepped foot into a laboratory.
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When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest.
Berger used to have a prominent position in the US government
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This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.
Clinton's various policies diverge here.
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T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system.
Temple Tuttle there is scant evidence the holes conform to any scales.
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He permits little discussion--he doesn't think it changes anyone's mind--and races through votes.
He permits an open forum, then takes his time with votes.
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It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.
The discussions end up becoming more argumentative.
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And a number of large firms have downsized successfully, most obviously General Electric, which cut an astounding 170,000 jobs worldwide in 12 years while simultaneously tripling its sales.
General Electric hires many people from India.
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Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, wh...
Marion Kaplan visited Auschwitz in person
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Hives feature the mathematical genius of honeycombs and precise divisions of labor.
Honeycombs are made from hives by bees with no show construction contracts because they're union.
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Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?
It would have made more sense to first get approval to expand.
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The American left has gone international to win a phony treaty that curbs greenhouse gases, Kristol alleged, because they can't accomplish their goal domestically.
Kristol Alleged the American left didn't try to do anything internationally.
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A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.
The piece is explained by a wall panel located nearby.
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