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Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.
All the sentences have their nouns place in the sentence reversed.
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The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.
Very few died in the Bosnian unrest.
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One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.
People's phone bills are charged for schools and libraries to have internet.
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What the press can do is cover leaking more aggressively.
The press needs to be restructured to get rid of any leaking
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Later, McLaughlin refers to Saddam's Republican Guard as the Red Guard.
McLaughlin thought Saddam's Republican Guard was called the Blue Guard.
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Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
The Korean and Japanese languages are entirely unconnected.
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Cook might just as well be gambling on what color tie President Clinton will wear tomorrow.
Cook wants to abstain from gambling on people.
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Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.
Clinton orders McDonalds quite often.
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. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw.
Jewish people have a rule against drawing god.
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On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle.
Tom was witnessing in a case
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Here, again, was a world they could understand.
They acknowledge the world for what it really is.
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The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again.
Chechen Russia has tried more than once to take over.
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The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected.
The Senate vetoed the bill and returned it to the House.
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Howard Kurtz, the media reporter of the Washington Post , does this a bit from time to time.
Howard writes sports articles.
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I do know that I could see every plot turn dragging its limp, maggoty carcass across the desert from miles away.
The plot was a product of great writing and suspense.
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Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency.
Once Clinton was found to be drinking martinis in the Oval Office.
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Chinese leaders are fretting about Taiwan's prosperous democracy and its flirtation with independence.
Taiwan's prosperity has allowed it to gain a prominent role in the world, as it looks to inch ever closer towards full independence, and is no longer held down under the grasp of Chinese leadership .
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Second, we said that government does have a limited role in addressing the problem.
The government is addressing the problem.
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Scouring each company's Web site could take forever, but Gurnee Mills puts all the information on one page . And while most malls let you click on links to their retailers, the links usually take you not to the national Web sites of those retailers but to dummy pages on the mall's site that tell you only about that ret...
Gurnee Mills is a mall.
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His philosophy might have prepared him for his own death
His religious ideology is what prepared him to die.
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The cover profile makes Jerry Seinfeld seem quite charming, if a tad immature.
Jerry Seinfeld makes quite charming seem a tad immature.
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The larger bill would fortify the Border Patrol, facilitate deportations, and restrict the benefits available to illegal aliens; the detached bill would let states exclude children of illegal aliens from public schools.
The larger bill will open America to illegal immigrants.
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In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long.
Being careless doesn't usually have any consequences
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But there are several pharmacological and social differences that reduce the relevance of rat research to social policy.
Rats are a part of some research.
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The other holds a gun to your head every day.
One choice does not hold a gun.
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Her last husband, and manager, George Richey, was more than overcome by her death.
She died and left behind her manager.
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Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away.
A man who paled at the sight of even a drop of blood, he elected to steer clear from sites with bloody histories.
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It covers every angle a young media entrepreneur could dream highbrow nonfiction (the first comprehensive collection of King's sermons); innovative nonfiction (a King autobiography cobbled together from his writings); audiotapes of King speeches; high-tech (a fancy civil-rights Web site); and even a little snack for D...
The King's speeches are a portion of what is covered.
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Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.
The patient receives two exercises.
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
Someone expresses regret for not being a moral majority.
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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
Lewinsky remained quite after his embarrassing remarks left people laughing at him.
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Why hasn't natural selection corrected the immune system's misguided response?
The immune system still responds in an incorrect way.
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Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older.
Changes in personal values stop at a young age.
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When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer.
She dislikes spending too much time on the computer when we go there.
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In this climate popular hostility was trained against powerful private interests and gave new life to anti-Masonry as a political movement.
The anti-Masonry movement originally began in the early 20th century.
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Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with the old, confident spirit of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place.
Ajami is as much of a celebration of individualism as it is of nationalism.
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The most controversial part of Finkelstein's book, though, is the last chapter, in which he sets out to explain why the Goldhagen book was such a big deal.
The first chapter was well-accepted by all.
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Bloomie's says I've got $40 due,
The author owes 2 dollars to Bloomie's for their amazing fries, even if they are to salty.
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The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.
There was no synagogue in the town that the Korbels came from.
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[w]hether they call themselves socialist or not.
They have no interest in politics or ideology.
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Ut's was not the only camera present
There was more than one camera present.
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Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.
The address pinpointed by Times was not the location of the building popular among police officers.
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The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953).
A common plot in the film western is the lone hero bringing back the law
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The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.
National security officials should not be involved in political maneuvering.
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James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.
The End Times was picked as a must read for those in college.
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At the time, only Canada, thanks to its giant neighbor, lived in anything like the world he envisaged; today we all do.
Canada was alone in its attempt to create a great society.
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By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him.
He and his peer Michael end up at a crowded mall where Ned offers them a smoothie.
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Framed this way, the story is dying.
For sure, the story is dying.
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He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.
He trashed the person to their face.
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He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.
Artists never paint in the abstract way anymore.
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Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should.
You should enjoy the water because it is fresh from a spring.
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Framing the election around the desirability of tax cuts is risky business for Clinton; since the age of Reagan, the public assumes that the Republicans are the anti-tax party.
The notion that Republicans are against tax has been around for years.
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To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average.
Die plates always cost more than $100.
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A related piece, based on polls, says that Americans back gay rights in theory but dislike public displays of gay affection.
Americans dislike public gay affection in theory.
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At least, Chatterbox thinks that's what Johnsen said ...
The Chatterbox believes that the statement was said by Johnsen.
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After vowing never to discuss his drug history, he admitted that he had made some mistakes but said he would have passed a 15-year background check in 1989.
He made improvements towards the effects that drugs had had on him in his prior history.
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James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.
The End Times is true to life and isn't a dramatization.
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Well, maybe two jokes if you count Heritage USA; is that still for sale?
Heritage USA has sold.
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However, if the second possibility were correct, then both George Bush Sr.'s and George W.' southern identities would have to be called into question.
The solidity of George Bush Sr. and his son's southern identities is impregnable.
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In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.
Window Explorer included only three components.
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The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money.
Companies that operate in the stock options market work on different strategies to help them excel within the market.
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As for the victory in Chechnya, it's a mirage.
Chechnya had been at war for decades.
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The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.
Semantics and orthography are getting a little more order.
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Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?
Nike and ABC have long been driving the same point home.
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In response to one of the proposed symptoms, Spitzer's wife protested, I do that sometimes, and Spitzer responded, OK, take it out.
Spritzer’s wife agreed to all of the suggested symptoms.
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They cite AFL-CIO officials who claim the organization spent $35 million on a radio-and-television ad campaign alone.
The $35 million campaign was the final straw that pushed the organization into bankruptcy.
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Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
They are involved in a battle that pits them against themselves in the future.
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It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too.
Your neighbors do not feel the same way.
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In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister.
He started by degrading the man who recently took public office.
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Any NEA chairperson who had the interests of the gay community at heart would have rushed to defund the exhibit.
The NEA are anti-gay.
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He still exaggerates the hostility displayed, and says that Saxton won't let me answer when in fact Reich's chief economist is later allowed to deliver a lecture-length reply.
Saxton and the chief economist have known each other a long time.
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The benefits of managed care are unremarkable and undramatic (lower premiums, more preventive care).
Managed care benefits are dramatic and remarkable.
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Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas.
The Buddhas upstairs are not slender.
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13-year-old Latino gang I ain't down to die right now, for I'm barely having fun.
The gang used to be fun.
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on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued.
Molotov thought people should stop going to the cinema in general.
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I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.
Both teams won their respective games.
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If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan.
The seating will always be accessible.
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What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about the new, there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.
Lots of people are tired of the new just rehashing the same things over and over.
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I don't mind a girl who thinks,
I don't like girls who don't use their minds.
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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 hundred weddings and zero funerals in his lifetime.
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One problem, among many, is that most people's living rooms aren't Carnegie Hall; as a result, the music just sounds muddy.
Too often people do not spend enough money on good sound equipment for their living room.
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But if smoking is addictive, then it makes sense to try to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids who are too young to take the warnings seriously.
Smoking is addictive.
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An article explores McDonald's niche offerings.
The story delves into unknown menu items from a restaurant.
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Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.
Varnedoe noticed Pollock's camouflage palette.
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If you missed the link to the refresher on harassment law and its history, click .
It's very unlikely to find info on internet about harassment law
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Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge.
The Clinton era was tarnished by Mencken.
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Ambrose--in the very next sentence!
The next sentence is a question.
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Newsweek claims 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. has become crime time for American teen-agers.
Teen crime often occurs after 11:00 p.m.
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It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it.
The book won't contain information for everyone.
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Personally, I think the Bush camp is acting like brats that didn't get everything they wanted at Christmas.
The citizens who favored Bush were happy to see the outcome.
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Variety reported that Harvey once locked a producer in a Cannes hotel room until the producer sold Miramax the rights to distribute his film.
The hotel room was in Cannes.
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Even Graham's earliest confessions of incompetence are refuted by her father's transparent scheme to groom her for some top slot at the Post . After she graduates from the University of Chicago, he arranges a job for her as a reporter at the San Francisco News , and afterward hires her as a Post editorial writer.
Graham's dad got her the San Francisco News job.
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I must, however, give you kudos for being the first writer I've ever seen limn Beck's Godley Creme influence.
Godfrey and Creme's music is sought out by several musicians.
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Nickles advocated a compromise, and Lott expressed interest in Yugoslavia's proposal for a lightly armed U.N. peacekeeping force in Kosovo rather than a fully equipped NATO force.
Lott showed little interest in Yogoslavia's proposal for a Kosovo peacekeeping force and preferred a NATO force that was fully equipped to handle it.
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Never able to paint anything unless he had it before his eyes, Soutine set about re-enacting some of the classic paintings he loved most.
The work of Soutine is now widely sought after.
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The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
The family lost control over the king's work.
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New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution.
It was probably the British corruption that lead to the American Revolution.
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You just have to be interesting.
Being interesting is unimportant.
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Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon.
The majority of shops is open on Saturday afternoon
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I have a Pavlovian reaction to the pre-title black-white-and-red bit with Monty Norman's theme and the gun site roving over the latest 007 as he saunters to the center of the frame--I go, Kill 'em, Bond!
The author really enjoys watching James Bond movies because they learn how to flirt with people.
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