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But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of
Robert Pinsky knows poertry.
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Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.
The Democrat, Henry Gonzalez, is known from the last generation as crazy and obsessive.
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But the interesting question is about sites sharing data.
Sites sharing data posing an interesting question.
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And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.
They used homeopathic medicine, like teas, to heal abnormalities of the mind.
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An entire six pack.
The pack was full, and contained six items
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Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode.
Van Zandt was looked up too as an idol.
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He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.
He approves of the sitting president.
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, under the headline U.S.
A story includes China in the headline.
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The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock.
Before the Madness Prison was shocking.
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Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.
A company CEO, Martha, is finally being treated as such, at Omnimedia, rather than as a bitchy hausfrau.
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This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on.
A lot of people visit the famous passage in Omeros where coal loading women were compared to a line of ants.
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And The Street Lawyer isn't a novel, exactly.
The Street Lawyer is a poem.
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He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan.
He very clearly has a politically preference.
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A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
Zapruder's film was well-known among film critics in the area.
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There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.
Too much style is not a good thing sometimes.
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Also, check out this illustrated, in-depth exploration of Beck's fashion choices.)
Avert your eyes from this analysis of Beck.
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In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder.
The lobby is currently empty.
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(The exception is the cast of non-Jewish locals, who are almost all soap operaish white trash.)
The non-Jewish locals are not the exception.
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Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless.
It's exceedingly rare for long term effects to be seen.
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Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
Features will always be added by developers.
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But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture.
Evidence shows the European culture is changing.
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The play is Spencer's life reduced to Two Weddings and a Funeral , a quaint and titillating Bloomsbury parallelogram, says the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons.
Spencer has been to two weddings of his siblings and one funeral of his cousin.
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But Wellstone favors Kosovo intervention to stop the Holocaust-like atrocities occurring there.
Holocaust-like atrocities could happen if not for Wellstone.
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Did Stevenson speak with any of the fans with whose hopes he claimed to be so familiar?
Stevenson saw little need to consider the hopes of the fans.
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It's also why he would make a lousy president.
He will make for a fabulous President.
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The cover story says pro sports are in trouble.
The story was widely regarded by readers.
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Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.
Many praised the biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr.
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At this point, I imagine that readers have three objections.
The author imagines the objections of himself.
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Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
The Time article came out in 2017.
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This suppression is an outrage, but our policy must be more sophisticated than mere indignation.
The suppression was viewed as a negative event.
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So much for the cruel stereotype of the pea-brained dinosaur.
Calling something pea-brained is a compliment.
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A writer recounts his experience as a phone psychic.
The writer was once a phone psychic.
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Fox President and CEO Rich Cronin called this separate-but-equal programming an effort to superserve children, adding, We will not stereotype in any way.
Rich Cronin worked for the large television network, Fox, for 20 years.
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Few bounty hunter training programs exist--the most frequently attended programs are 20-hour courses that cover only basic legal constraints.
At most, a bounty hunter gets 20-hours courses on only basic legal constraints.
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It was not always this way.
It will be this way forvever.
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But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.
The Wild Bunch is a better production than Dances With Wolves.
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It's easy to imagine an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole, but a third party entry by, say, Jesse Jackson, pushes Dole ahead of Clinton.
Jesse Jackson thought about entering the presidential race.
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Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans.
It was required that all people had the same retirement plan.
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Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages.
The author doubts peddlers of Christian products have even read the bible.
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What a country should not apologize for is a basically sound foreign policy.
A country should be ready to apologize for it's foreign policy, even if it is sound..
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The effort to convert won into dollars and other foreign currencies depressed the value of the won, despite the Korean government's efforts to sustain it by using its reserves.
The drop in the value of the won was only temporary.
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) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost.
Tinsley gave credit to the devil for his abilities.
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In Gigot's mind, he is the most successful loser in political history--his failed presidential run defined a conservative agenda that was eventually elected in the person of Ronald Reagan.
Due to his conservative agenda, often Gigot would have a slight edge over Ronald Regan in the polls.
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The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference.
Israeli policy is found to be in turmoil one hundred percent of the time.
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The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core.
Alex Ross thought that Palestrina was magnificent at the core but haunting on the surface.
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(Read William Saletan's to see how the doctors cultivated their common touch.)
William Saletan's discusses the irrelevancy of doctors to common touch.
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This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
All of her stories revolve around the societal dynamic.
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Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money.
Galoob's stock sky rocketed.
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In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.
Racoons were never supposed to be in Japan.
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Time 's Terry Teachout says the 75-minute work's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, [and] its structure maddeningly repetitious.
Terry Teachout, who works for Time, tried the work's theme only once.
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Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes.
Newsweek's corporate office is located in Greenland.
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When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity.
Chechens set bombs in Moscow.
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(After all, Scheck earns a pittance compared with what he could if he were a full-time criminal defense attorney.)
Scheck could earn a lot more money.
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2) An elderly Milwaukee couple are soliciting women to conceive and bear their grandchild, using frozen sperm from their dead son.
The elderly couple was trying to locate women to be date their son.
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It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface.
The magic is below the surface of water.
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--Associated Press story of Wednesday, Oct. 27, describing the efforts of Clinton aide Harold Ickes on behalf of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s campaign for Congress.
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s campaign was highly successful.
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It would also help our thinking if we could avoid the sex and violence mantra.
We want to downplay sex and violence.
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Lauderdale at spring break--and notes that the vote for the Nixon inquiry was 410-4, not the 256-178 tally for the Clinton inquiry.
The vote for the Nixon and Clinton inquiries was the same.
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And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can.
Insurers don't have to pay much because hospitals try and bill fairly.
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Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.
Henry James made humanistic studies
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Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one.
Bruce Ackerman testified before the House of Representatives, which allowed his views to be heard, which allowed Congress to reach a sensible verdict about the matter.
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The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
It's easy and painless collection the quote from bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948.
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He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.
He couldn't choose to be free.
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Last June, the Supreme Court ruled that political parties (as well as PACs, interest groups, and individuals) can make unlimited independent expenditures on behalf of candidates.
Instead of having to beat around the bush, donors can now donate whatever they want to politicians.
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Books and TV specials are on the way.
The books and television shows are going to be based on the historical wedding.
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There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.
These responses contained some inappropriate language.
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This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal.
The act is considered to be unfair and illegal.
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Hannah was recently spotted in New York wearing a hat with a star on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a T-shirt with--are you sitting down?
Both Hannah and Kennedy were seen in New York.
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Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.
The administration is trying to make peace after much conflict and violence in southeast Europe.
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The official Bush campaign, of course, kept its distance from such efforts, and claimed to use Horton only in race-neutral ways.
Bush liked to stay close to Horton and his ways.
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They are too easy a target.
The target isn't too hard to overpower.
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And they don't need to--the 13 missiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States have always been judged capable of hitting U.S. cities by the Pentagon (though China's difficulty in commercial launches casts doubt on the Pentagon's assessment).
China struggles with military projectile launches.
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The Jerusalem Post pointed to a novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel (see International Papers for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse.
The gene was discovered by top scientists a month ago.
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He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.
The man always generated his own light.
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There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.
The evening out lacked any clear pretense.
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De Kooning himself seems to have left the room.
It appears that De Kooning is not in the room.
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7 million in the Los Angeles Times and over $3 million by the other major papers.
All the papers together were $10 million total.
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And, oh, to know what a frolic is!
They are very aware of what the word frolic is.
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But when Indonesians started running from their banks a few months ago, what they wanted was dollars--and neither the Indonesian government nor the IMF can give them enough of what they want.
Indonesians wanted dollars that the IMF had to much of, so they all got what they wanted.
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At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk.
Accompanying the phat lady was a small, male child presumably not older than ten.
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No inside-the-beltway PR victory is worth that kind of demoralization.
A few will appreciate the public relations victory.
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If you missed the link to the refresher on harassment law and its history, click .
The info on the internet about the harassment law aren't updated
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(Heston's softness on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.
Heston had softness on gun rights.
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Critics have demanded that UFC install ropes instead.
Critics want UFC to remove the ropes that are currently installed.
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But bizarrely, 1.7 million of those votes were for Kemal Ataterk.
Kemal Ataterk received seventeen votes.
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Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.
Madison Avenue is making an ad to appeal to inner-city kids.
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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.
Andy decided to not wager on sports.
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U.S. immigration law permits spouses of American citizens to become American citizens with only a few exceptions, such as sham marriages undertaken for the purpose of obtaining citizenship.
US immigration law allows the citizenship of sham marriages that are created to game the system.
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As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.
Intel proved the critic wrong by consistently selling twice as many products than usual by the end of 1992.
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If he becomes a serious threat, Livingston and other GOP leaders will make sure to stop him.
Livingston is suspicious of the other GOP leaders.
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More Did Kaufman himself consider some of his experiments failures, or had his aesthetic finally become so punk/pro-wrestling that he thought driving people crazy was enough?
Kaufman succeed at everything he did.
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Not all Republicans think this way.
Republicans have more than one viewpoint.
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Equally important--and I admit this sounds kind of cornball--success required the civic spiritedness of pro- and anti-busing parents alike, who saw their way clear to hammering out compromises.
It will probably be seen as strange, but it took the enthusiasm of both parent groups to achieve success in the school busing matter.
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And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign.
The drug company wants to expand its operations.
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Anthony Hopkins plays the zillionaire communications baron whom Death enlists in the hope of understanding the human condition--an odd choice for a tour guide, since most people's condition doesn't involve personal helicopters, sprawling mansions on Long Island Sound, or Manhattan apartments that sport Olympic-size swi...
Anthony Hopkins character in the movie owned an apartment in Manhattan.
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It's a big week for women's health at Newsweek , too.
Women's health is going to have a big week.
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An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives.
The essay ignored male bonding.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.
Racial discrimination could be avoided if people looked into their hearts.
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Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...
Streams run downhill in the Rockies.
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And for two-income couples, getting married nearly always results in a higher tax bill.
Two-income couples typically end up with a higher tax bill after getting married.
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