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Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances.
Those that he works with like and admire him.
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Until recently, I enjoyed the confusion.
The confusion was now hard to deal with according to them.
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A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit.
This space had the correction on Tuesday.
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Please tell Do you see an end to human suffering?
Human suffering is ongoing.
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Would Shuger ever have Why did Irving Goldberg play 'Sol Bernstein'?
Irving Goldberg portrayed roles in Drama films.
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But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.
I found his movie style to be bland and failed to grab my attention.
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Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.
Cultural tourism is causing changes in the way museums present their art.
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It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
Though flamboyant, backlash is a frank and sincere rubric.
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Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.
It is acceptable for China to suppress religious expression in order to protect communism.
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If Woodward had shaken the baby, why did his neck show no signs of damage?
There are clear signs of damage on the baby's neck.
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Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.
David Cook is a high school student.
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The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.
Bennett was not honest about imprisoning criminals.
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In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages.
Big organizations wanted to profit from the general election.
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My favorite detail is the TV commercial where they pour out of the giant Bible.
Several tv commercials today are cheesy.
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We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern.
It is believed that we are unaware of how life originated.
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8. She's a dirty little secret.
She's someone's hidden affair.
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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.
Clinton is not well-liked in the media.
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Given this prospect, the country should save heavily to make provision for the future--and lacking the kind of pay-as-you-go Social Security system that allows Americans to ignore such realities, it does.
The current Social Security system lets people not save for the future.
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I begin to count Rep.
I already counted the other party.
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But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.
He faltered against his opponents.
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Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.
Walter Goodman believes Ferraro's Crossfire job was profitable.
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Would the story have broken if not for the Web?
The Web suppressed the story.
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' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
Something significant happened that caused me to recall this well.
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Another school of thought contends that faith and reason occupy two different realms of knowing.
Faith and reason are philosophical genres that are studied in a nutshell in the first year of preschool.
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John F. Kennedy repeated it 16 times in his Inaugural Address, and Richard Nixon has it 22 times in his second one.
Both Kennedy and Nixon avoided to reference it
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The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.
The situation shows a glimpse of the future detached from the past
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What we mean--and should mean--by character needs to be disentangled.
The characters are completely separated in their own paths.
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So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him.
The high-ranking officials who had no means to influence trade policy, were prepared to undercut him.
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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.
The visit from Buchwald was inconsequential.
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Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
The feeling and history of every scene is significant.
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Ever since Seymour Hersh's book came out detailing the raw side of Jack Kennedy and the dark side of Camelot, I've been wondering what JFK did in today's context that warrants an eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery.
Seymour Hersh exposed negative things about a US president, making all readers question him.
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Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape?
We are ready to fight for information on any scandals that appear.
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Another refreshing feature of Goodman's storytelling is that, unlike other members of fundamentalist sects one might find in novels, her characters don't chafe at their restrictions, or not too much.
Gooman creates characters which are grating due to their personalities when it comes to their barriers.
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In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of nature, but in nature as human nature affects it, industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur.
The greatness of the divine of God is occasionally found in everything.
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While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.
The branches have closed due to the state of the economy.
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The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India...
India, Pakistan, and Indonesia have smooth running governments.
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Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist.
The book taught me I prefer to live in a fantasy world.
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Instead, McCain spends the evening attacking Bush.
McCain had a peaceful conversation with Bush.
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All these guys just have to be worried.
All the guys are worried about their 401Ks.
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Demonstrations this winter against Tudjman quickly dissipated (at the time, he was being treated in the United States for cancer--he may not live much longer).
Demonstrations dissipated only because Tudjman had cancer.
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The critics are ganging up on social critic Mike Davis, the MacArthur fellow and Marxist deflater of Los Angeles' dreams and delusions.
The critics all want to criticize MacArthur.
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Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable.
The Small Business Administration is a Democratic cause.
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4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter?
Resemblance to Jesus is the main point the author takes issue with.
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If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirk...
The author is a massive fan of the sarcastic performer Ali McGraw.
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Later in the piece, Brill writes that Schmidt and another reporter declined all comment on their sources.
Brill claims that Schmidt and another reporter took every single comment on their sources.
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As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same.
Police find it difficult to track illegal distributions when consumers have easy contact with distributors.
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(Thank you.)
I would like to thank you, and offer a reward for your bravery.
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The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.
Anecdotal politics has given birth to the pro-HMO policy.
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Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no cuisine.
Mintz thinks that America has no cuisine.
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In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.
Fiscal burdens are preferred by this group.
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The best solutions for searching will probably result from a combination of humans and computers.
Computers are better than humans at searching.
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According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
According to Garman linguist Max Weinreich, the Garmans used the word nebbich in their language in the 11th century.
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The hotel would deliver the desired ensemble to you (along with the indispensable needle-and-thread person and the right shoes) and would return it after you had checked out.
The shoes are made from the finest black leather in town.
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Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
Powell credited himself be being the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
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That is, because you can always declare bankruptcy and walk away, it is as if you owned the right to sell those assets at a fixed price, whatever might happen in the market.
Bankruptcy gives you the chance to just leave your debts.
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Officials at the Justice Department and FISA Court deny that the latter is a rubber stamp, attributing Justice's winning percentage to rigorous internal review that weeds out bad applications before they're filed.
Critics think the Justice Department and FISA Court giving an unwarranted green light during review.
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It's not like we want it by mid-February.
But come mid-February, we better be able to track its progress at the very least or you'll be sorry.
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Other news from 1) British Prime Minister John Major announced that a new national election will be held May 1. Polls show the opposition Labor Party leading by nearly 2-to-1.
The leader is winning the vote, according to statistics.
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The majority of those responding felt that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, and the APA accordingly removed it from the DSM 's next published edition.
Homosexuality would continue to be considered a mental disorder, thanks in part to a large majority of people that believe it to be so.
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Can you suggest a metaphor for rationalizing my past?
I promise not to take offense to any analogy for understanding my past.
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Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.
The Bible's English is very complicated to understand.
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To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.
George Gilder can write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows very rarely.
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Until two years ago, it was ritual among Supreme Court-watchers to speculate that this term would be Rehnquist's last.
Rehnquist surprised many people when he continued to serve on the Supreme Court.
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The hotel would deliver the desired ensemble to you (along with the indispensable needle-and-thread person and the right shoes) and would return it after you had checked out.
The items would be returned by mail prior to check-in.
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But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair.
It's forbidden the sale of reclining chairs with a cushy wonder boy or girl
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Fine, then simply means test it.
Everyhing is fine.
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There he would stand, his back turned to us like the contemplative artist figure in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and reflect on the glory and folly of mankind.
Caspar David Friedrich was a singer and song writer.
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Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.
Some of them were addressed and some of them were not.
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Book and software pirates are prosecuted under the copyright laws, but pirates are not really plagiarists.
Piracy of books and software isn't a crime under the law.
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And that's why there's nothing at all wrong with this picture.
Many people have seen the picture.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
The top court didn't say anything about the first amendment being used like that.
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The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.
The A national test clearly shows improvement based on neutral testing regimes.
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His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season.
The weekly feature of Slate is his deconstruction of political ads.
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An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.
Most people who were alive in 1000 were pesants.
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
The Germans have a weak domination over the European fiscal policies without control.
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Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire primary comes before the Iowa caucus.
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Consider the opening to The End of the World, which introduces an angry son who, as the story goes on, will be called to Paris to care for a selfish dying
The son is angry in the opening to The End of the World.
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That's the only thing that'll overcome the meat-grinding aspects of national politics.
This is the only thing that can overcome certain aspects of national politics.
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If we focus on small problems that make headlines, we will ignore bigger problems that don't.
None of the larger issues never seem to make headlines.
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60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.
Antwerp is cheaper to call because of its location.
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This path has been smoothed by the nihilism of those Arab intellectuals--including Said--who prefer utopian dreams to a view of politics as the art of compromise.
The Arab intellectuals steer clear of any views that would be seen as nihilist in nature, and seek to deal with things from a strictly politically minded standpoint.
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Such a show might have opened with the same Robert Henri portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney included here and brought many of the same paintings she collected out of the vault for a fresh look.
The collection of art is one of the best private collections existing.
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Women are so large a part of the labor force that it is hard to believe that this could be true of the total if it were not also true of women.
The small amount of men in the labor force is becoming smaller.
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These holes now mark a generation of which the parents cannot confidently say, They'll grow out of it.
It is always true that children grow out of a stage.
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If Oprah's not safe, no one is.
Oprah’s risk level is still quite low.
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The results were depressingly consistent.
The results were generating euphory
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Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.
Both Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald do not want to be seen together.
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Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true.
The president was in denial the entirety of his presidency.
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officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion.
Officials decided they could be uninvolved in seeing the treaty through to the end.
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The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Camden Yards' top deck and produced a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet, about eight rows closer than Arlington's.
The Orioles raised the stadiums top deck by 500 yards.
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It was force backing up diplomacy, insists a fuming Buchanan.
Buchanan had been criticized by foreign governments.
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His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
His son taught math at a university.
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Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned.
He saw only dichotomies.
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Although Davis has officially retired from the game, he's still mixing sense and nonsense for public consumption.
Davis continues to find ways to entertain the public, as he searches for his place in the world during his retirement.
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Republicans have long demanded smaller government.
Politicians have gained ground trying for a smaller government.
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Maybe if I were gay, but I'm not.
The author is asexual
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The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.
Options trades have inspire charitable acts on a regular basis.
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Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!
One would feel slighted if they received an invitation to a bris.
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But these individual successes can't disguise the very curious reality that we're living in a world that is somehow saturated by the media without actually paying all that much attention to it.
The media is being broadcast over many different mediums.
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I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
The legal ethics treatise receives an annual update.
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