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Novak cut Hunt off only twice.
It was twice that Hunt was interrupted by Novak.
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But he is older now.
He is now younger.
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In Crace's version, a rebellious, bratty Jesus dies of starvation at the end of his 40-day sojourn in the wilderness.
Crace's version offended many Bible purists.
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The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead.
Folks are not interested in general-interest weekly magazines.
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Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.
Many states found that a shove yields no results.
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My wife went to Florida with her mother once.
My wife refuses to travel with her Mother.
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Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.
Michel Foucault was a rigid conservative.
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The kids will be gone in no time.
The children will leave soon
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(Billy is said to be the family peacemaker.)
Billy starts all of the arguments within the family.
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Is it true you have no penis?
Someone tells the author that they lack a penis.
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You can catch the final nine hours this evening.
The last 9 hours of the series will be airing this evening.
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In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.
Corporations located inside Hong Kong are all being bought out by China.
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According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975.
Bailey's book, which contained an index of food prices was utilized to gain great insight into how the price of food had fluctuated throughout the years.
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In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.
Cole associates several components with Windows Explorer.
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Krugman would also have found out that the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is not representative of the way things Bonds are important, and what businessmen are doing is important.
Bonds and businessmen are insignificant.
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Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.
Billy dated Chynna for a long time before he proposed..
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An article explicates curling (shuffleboard on ice with brooms), the one game in all the world wherein the human participants move faster than the object they put in play.
Curling is the one game whererin all participants move faster than the object they put in play.
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There is an obvious opportunity here for a bonanza of international conferences to study the need for worldwide treaties to set up global commissions to come up with transnational standards for ...
Global commissions set up worldwide treaties for transnational standards.
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It'll be a good thing for all of us if she finally gets into the habit of speaking for herself.
We all want her to speak for herself.
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The WP reports that following a year of sensitive negotiations, the German government has finally agreed to spend $110 million to compensate 18,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis who are living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The government of Germany was envovled in sensitive negotiations regarding compensation to Nazi Victims.
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Besides the CBS suit, it won $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today after the newspaper reprinted the I Have a Dream speech without permission.
It lost the case and paid both CBS and USA Today legal fees all legal fees from the suit.
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(At least they said it was hers when Sophie R-C handed over a100,000 of Bill Gates' money.)
Sophie R-C and Bill Gates are extraneous for each other
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If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.
The citizenships' value was set in stone, and it was impossible to get a better price for them
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But in both cases, the feds can help.
The feds are supportive.
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Yet in almost any diaspora--whether black, yellow, brown, or white --the dispersed are far better off, at least materially, than those back home.
You have more opportunities if you are willing to leave home.
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I have never seen a trial before where you had factual disputes where you didn't have witnesses where you could watch their demeanor on the stand, listen to them, judge one witness vs. another witness (DeWine).
This process had plenty of witnesses appearing in person
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Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures.
Humans dislike the totality of wild animals
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If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs.
The executives demand exciting programs.
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The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans.
The website dedicated to the jokes about Al Gore receives hundreds of daily visits
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Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent.
It is wrong to appeal to that position.
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The U.S. has never backed down.
The United States shows up to a fight.
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But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
Plenty of laws cause more suffering and disagreement than bringing harmony
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If the critics were interested in remedying the lotteries, they'd have the states repeal their monopolies on these games and let the market compete away the excess profits.
It would probably be best for the states to repeal their monopolies on the lotteries.
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Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.
The fans loved the host's new fabulous make-over.
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That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.
The company never suggests you make decisions that could cause you pain or would not be useful for yourself.
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It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.
It's okay to sell your health for money.
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The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said.
Cope listened to three musical pieces just once each.
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Nemesis Hunt refutes the slack-jawed Novak, with the computation that 5 + 4 = 9 and therefore half of Starr's deputies are not current DOJ employees.
Novak insists that 5 + 4 = 11.
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The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army
There was a long term question.
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Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium.
The number of passive vs. active investors is constant.
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But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us.
Dowd perfectly mustered his response.
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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Clinton needs Starr's reputation to get himself out of the hole he is in.
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Zeus, not surprisingly, fancies himself their leader.
Zeus has little interest in being a leader.
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But there would not be, nor could there have been, an overall increase in prices.
There was a large increase in prices.
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The other holds a gun to your head every day.
You are always safe.
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He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2.
He received a sizable sum of money for Basic Instinct.
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process one out of every four checks in the country.
Checks in the country are processed.
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As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.
With their incredible wealth, the duo hired renowned doctors to save the ill fisherman.
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Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
The New York Book Reviews only reviews instructional video's for food.
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He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.
Barnes believes that the man is complicit with the suspicions that surround him.
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The distinction between a maid or matron of honor and bridesmaids is usually a different bouquet and walking down the aisle first.
There are a few minor differences between maids and matron of honor, as well as bridesmaids.
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Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.
The plans were left out of the prospectus because the governor wanted to pull one over on the state.
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To heed the better angels of your nature, you must know the devils first.
The only thing you need to maintain morality is to listen to the inner good.
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Klayman, who presents a coherent faaade while making wild and unsubstantiated charges, is perfect.
Klayman wants others to believe he's stupid.
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The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.
The story was pushed into circulation quickly.
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In a market of 10,000 stocks, short-term prices will rise and fall for an infinite variety of reasons, very few of which have anything to do with a company's real productivity or value.
Stocks fall for many different reasons over the short term.
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We're having debates.
We're communicating with each other.
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(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
The upcoming column will explain how such systems function.
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And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all.
These things are mentioned quite often, and remain at the forefront of all discussion.
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This counterattack has only helped Bush achieve the distance he sought in the first place.
Bush wanted to be closer to the attacks.
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Time says that space tourism has a new former astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
The Milk Way is the most desired travel spot for tourists.
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The already-outdated cover story wonders if NATO's deal with Yugoslavia will hold.
The cover story goes into depth about Yugoslavia's current status and history.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
There are two pens.
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Few people these days believe that evil spirits cause illness, that the rain god causes rain, or that electric-light bulbs are mystical.
The presence of a rain god is believed by few people in modern times.
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And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.
The soil samples are Ms. are gathered by me.
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Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about.
The Dalai Lama is a person that the author holds high esteem for.
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But Jacob was pierced by shafts of doubt.
Jacob was happy with his choice and had no worries.
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This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.
Measured inflation being active can be explained by covert productivity increases.
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Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.
The baby was named after President Thomas Jefferson.
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Also, there is no Fifth Amendment right against incriminating others.
The Fifth Amendment does not cover incriminating others.
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promises one month of free e-mail support.
Each online correspondence message will incur a charge of five dollars.
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Will her job description be done by then?
Her job description needs work
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Congress, the United Nations, and other international forums.
Congress and United Nations are two important entities
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Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up.
Global growth has nothing to do with consumer spending.
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The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original.
The 1931 original was worst than the sixth version of the classic cookbook.
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Don't faint when it happens.
I will faint when it happens.
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In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism.
Democrats have been known to support smaller governments.
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All this is called devolution, to rhyme with evolution (and not to rhyme with revolution).
Its called devolution to rhyme with revolution
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The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance.
The requests for gifts is wearing people down.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
Tout de Suite is Davis' attempt to go beyond jazz.
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What is worrisome is the failure of pollsters themselves to learn from the history of their profession.
Pollsters keep making the same mistakes
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His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
His grandchild was the best friend I ever had.
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The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.
Human evolution was left out entirely of the magazine.
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Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a shred of evidence against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration a whitewash.
Notra Trulock is the highest charge of the white supremacists
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The neat 6:3:2 mathematical relationship among the price groups should be noted.
The pattern was intended.
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Clark also expressed the hope that he and Redgrave could continue with their marriage.
Clark was hopeful that the marriage would still take place.
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I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole.
I took a picture with the guy who was dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog, and asked him to repeat the line from the old ad.
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Standard Medicare coverage pays only 80 percent of doctor and hospital bills and nothing for drugs.
Medicare does not cover any medication.
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
They are found just in the Pacific.
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If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia.
Chernomyrdin will go down in history as the man who sold out Serbia if he convinces Milosevic to accent NATO's demands.
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, I'm with you (thought I must admit Merchant of Venice ain't my all-time favorite.
The author doesn't really like the Merchant of Venice all that much, since they seen it 10 times in a row.
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An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top.
Fallon Community is rated very highly.
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The Air Force says the case was less about adultery and more about Flinn's subsequent lying and cover-up.
The Air Force is more concerned about a man's cover-up.
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Upon him All ultimatelyrests.
He has the final say.
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So, who's hungry?
Overcome with diligence, the group worked tirelessly and the subject of hunger never crossed anyone's mind.
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Who better to help a candidate extract weighty lessons from his personal history, to teach him to tell voters that their own successes depend on his own?
One believes that there is a large selection to choose from of who can teach the candidate.
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In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.
The slapstick was humerous.
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I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology.
A government agency is involved in a quiz.
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Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass ...
You must understand High school level English to become a citizen.
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That is labor's real job, the very core purpose of a union.
The core purpose of a union is the labor's real job.
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