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Time says that space tourism has a new former astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz Aldrin knew that he would go to space as a child.
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At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty.
Bill Gates is thought to be a possible person that murdered Vince Foster.
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He says, Who are these people?
He doesn't know who these people are.
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That, in turn, might cause a peaceful transition from communism.
Other countries will help in the transition from communism.
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And by planting what looks like a bold idea--that the purpose of campaigning is to engender optimism and renew our faith--he erases his obligation to tell us how he would govern.
He's not the front runner in the upcoming election, he's a sort of dark horse candidate.
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Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape.
The majority of the vouchers were of low worth.
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Yes, he's an asshole-junkie, but, in the capable hands of Michael Imperioli, he is not only He is a cursing, bitch-slapping metaphor for the entire decline of the mob.
The mob has been growing stronger.
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And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.
It is important to have influence on Capital Hill
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Thank you for William Saletan's brilliant analysis () of the war.
The war in question is the war on drugs.
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Please don't print my name because I want
I don't want my name to be printed.
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The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world; and 2) fallen short of victory in Kosovo by using excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force in a c...
DeLay's argument is completely logical
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Of course not all shoddiness is local.
Shoddiness is the norm.
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The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations.
The supreme court ruled on several cases involving noncriminal aliens.
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Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization.
Russia is still suffering from it's privatization plan.
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The hard truth, I would argue, is that this way of seeing the world is itself distressingly soft.
You might say this viewpoint is too soft.
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'Cause, like, I want a Miata.
They are ready to buy a Miata.
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Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length.
Murder episodes are sometimes 2 or 3 hours long.
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He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate.
There is a good chance they go after his seat.
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Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free.
Parents seek donors
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For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents.
Pooh was a pair of books that saw modest sales
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Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
Adding detail to the app is a copyright infringement.
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Did this really make her beautiful?
It was a questioned by everyone as to whether it made her beautiful.
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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.
There more than five scales other than the South Indian system.
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Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.
The same cities were celebrated by newsweeklies
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Paleontologist Ivan Turk, who discovered the bone, recently told Scientific American that the four holes are really well rounded and just about the right separation for humans to put their finger on.
Ivan discovered the bone.
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But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.
Dowd, who has written with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, is ignorant of the existence of Nexis.
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(Quayle--that tax-and-spend liberal--would set it at a whopping 19 percent.)
Some considered Quayle a tax and spend liberal.
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TUMORS AND IS A TERMINAL ILLNESS.
Tumors always indicate serious illness.
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To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success.
Renewing discrimination efforts will result in unprecedented financial success.
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Even if he remains uncorrupted, the president will be immersed in the concerns only of the wealthy and will lose all feeling for the lives of everyone else.
The president would be immersed in the wealthy's concerns and forget about everyone else's lives.
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Rolling Stone 's cover story traces Stern's history from mediocre rock DJ to king of shock jocks.
Stern is still a so-so DJ.
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Does W. agree with this sentiment?
W. has heard the sentiment.
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That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.
Ellen Barkin will find the entire thing unremarkable.
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For instance, in a hot-selling series of novels co-authored by the well-known preacher Tim LaHaye, he's Romanian.
Tim LayHaye co-authored an obscure series of novels.
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Tina and the Weinsteins all have highbrow pretensions but feel no shame in embracing pop culture.
Tina and the Weinsteins hate pop culture and think it's below them.
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(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.
Our penises will no longer remain flaccid.
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But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues?
Family leave and economic issues are two totally separate things.
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I think there's a piece there, Joyce.
Joyce is unable to be told about a piece, being unaware of anything being there.
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It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less.
The GDP per worker is an important measure of the economy
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But marketing people are the worst offenders when it comes to wanting to add new features, generating loud choruses of NO even from otherwise enthusiastic developers.
Marketing professionals want to incorporate outrageous new features.
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One vivid After the embassy bombing, Chinese officials produced an anti-NATO music video.
The music video was funded by taxes.
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It means that you're the seventh or eighth on the call list to be lied to, instead of the 25 th .
One's opinion is that those that are on a call list are lied to by the caller.
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Now the practice has its own a triple--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.
Living arrangements are irrelevant in custody cases.
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Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things.
The Bounty is primarily about Walcott's faith.
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Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
Many believe that information technology makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
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I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing.
Arthur claimed but claimed in secret.
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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.
Onward is not a Christian clothier.
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Unless, of course, when it comes to Internet shares there is no sensible middle.
Internet shares are easy to come to terms with.
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Democrats, unwilling to take another beating, folded, voting unanimously for the bill in full committee.
The Democrats were not able to muster up enough support to fight the bill with confidence.
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Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910.
Doctorow's Ragtime is historically accurate
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The PKK has also bombed Turkish targets in Germany.
There were Turkish Targets located in Germany that were bombed by PKK.
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There isn't really anything on the other side.
It's all on the other side.
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The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use.
The company has misfortune to look forward to.
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The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.
Bush blatantly ignored and even encouraged moral issues.
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And it gives a package of free collectibles to any Webmaster who picks up its banner.
Any Webmaster who picks up its banner gets a free package of star wars collectibles.
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Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer may be losing people if they lose sales.
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Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses).
Geniuses are immune from mental health problems
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That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.
Ellen Barkin is easily impressed.
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They are using us, and I need help with this.
I can't do this without help.
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Need a good book store with a series of author appearances, maybe starting with Susan Faludi?
Authors show up at bookstores
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But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf.
He wanted her to lie for him
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They would simplify background investigations and financial disclosures.
They made things more complicated than they needed to.
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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 will never achieve the standard of living of its neighbors.
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Remaining an enigma lets her retain the benefit of the doubt.
People always give her the benefit of the doubt.
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So read Slate . A lot.
Slate uses hardly any words in their publications.
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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 ...
All Citizen applicants must be married adults.
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Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.
Paying subscribers will still see all the ads those not paying will see.
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oh, I'm sorry--are we out of time?
Other people are disappointed that the allotted time is over.
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How can you be sure your programs are safe?
The programs in question are social programs and not computer ones.
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Even if he remains uncorrupted, the president will be immersed in the concerns only of the wealthy and will lose all feeling for the lives of everyone else.
The president would immerse themselves in the concerns of the wealthy, the middle-class, and the poor if there was more bipartisan support.
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I am surprised, Richard, that you find Faludi's characterizations of the male crisis to fit the British profile.
The author disagrees with Richard
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driving a car--that are not wrong in themselves, just wrong for a 5-year-old.
It's wrong for a 5 year old to drive a car.
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Gigot thinks the tax fraud proceedings against Hubbell are legitimate and ordinary, while everyone else regards the indictments as trumped-up mini-crimes meant to squeeze Hubbell into giving Starr what he wants--cooperation.
Gigot has a different opinion than everyone else.
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She says, Have a nice day.
She can't stop talking.
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After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s.
Disney was almost dismantled in the 1980s.
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The long Relax, dynasties haven't killed the men's game.
The men still have a game.
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For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high.
Agents didn't like revoking parole of guys who only smoked weed
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So--contrary to what we're told by orthodox economic theory--two individuals with exactly the same preferences and exactly the same opportunities can adopt dramatically different attitudes toward saving.
A new economic theory has been proposed to explain other factors that influence savings attitudes
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When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.
Focusing on price leads to more conservative decisions.
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Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest.
Ginsburg is an attorney.
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It's a ballot box, he says.
He said it was an orange crate.
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And The Street Lawyer isn't a novel, exactly.
The Street Lawyer isn't a novel
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You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the dire...
Thomas Vinterberg attended film school
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Bill Bennett said Newt Gingrich is cozying up to the left and should change course or step down.
Bill Bennett disapproved of Newt Gingrich's approach
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The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance.
A great amount of help has been requested.
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Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.
States needing aid, get it when they ask.
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The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and Th...
The scandal has been very beneficial for the news media.
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By then Gore will be campaigning seriously, distancing himself from Clinton, and running macho ads; Bradley will have defined his big ideas and endured the inevitable media backlash to his current rave notices; and the voters will actually be paying attention.
Gore will not ask for Clinton's endorsement.
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Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted nay on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.
She regrets voting against the minimum-wage bill.
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I can't remember if it came from the tenure committee or the gentleman's club where I used to lap dance.
She remembered it specifically came from the tenure committee.
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It invests heavily in research and development.
Research and development are not lightly invested in.
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The resistance literature often comments on Hitler's amazing luck, or his uncanny ability to sense danger; but the failures of the resistance might be better ascribed to the calculated unluck of the resisters, their own ability to sense danger and step away from it, and their overall minuscule number.
The resistance had huge numbers
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Time 's cover story explains how popular serotonin-boosting drugs (such as diet pills Redux and fen-phen) work, and how they can be health risks (high serotonin levels damage heart valves).
Redux pills raise serotonin levels
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On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle.
Tom claims he was alone in the transportation machine
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Deseg students bused from the inner-city find class differences harder to bridge than racial ones.
Students from the inner-city are bused to other schools
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And by following up his serious accusation (i.e.
The accused was guilty.
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Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?
seedless grapes do not occur naturally.
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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.
In a world with no racial discrimination, present, past or future, 12 of the top 100 candidates would not necessarily be black.
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And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all.
These days, there are things that people don't say much.
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He is troubled over whether to accept donations from the professional kirkbuzzers'* guild.
He desperately needs money
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