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The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.
The article attempts to debunk creationism.
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Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?
There are substantial differences in ways the guide covers the city.
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It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.
No one in the room really want the truth about the ideas to be revealed.
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Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.
Artaud's hallucinatory paranoia and ferocity are joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control creating an enigma.
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I have filters that keep me from being subjected to that sort of language in my e-mail.
The filter is used on every email I get.
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At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.
Elizabeth Shulman is not proud to be Jewish
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In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
Kodak had to pay a settlement of over 10 million dollars
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Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.
Barr feels he need something bigger than the states to accomplish his goals.
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Instead, they looked the other way.
They failed to see something
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The already-outdated cover story wonders if NATO's deal with Yugoslavia will hold.
The cover story predicts the future.
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Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, will be abandoned or dropped at the pound.
Exactly 885 dogs are going to be dropped at the pound
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(Actually, some of the bombs were pretty good movies, like Wolf and Remains of the Day, while others, like the much-maligned Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger, were failures in an interesting way.)
The author thinks Last Action Hero was a failure
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Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up
Randy has teaching a karate class.
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USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.
Regular graphs abound in the USA.
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Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.
English words have become part of other languages.
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If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him?
The jocks were directed by someone to endorse Bradley for president.
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Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract.
Recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing how pleasant it is.
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Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers.
Neighboring countries to the Czech Republic have also received the stories.
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Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course).
The three have amnesia.
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The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.
The WNBA is a radio station.
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The data are computerized, but for policy reasons the reports are not available online.
Even though the data is digital, the reports are not available online.
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This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.
It was mentioned throughout and in very specific details in the 1999 edition.
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A writer recounts his experience as a phone psychic.
Everyone enjoys his stories.
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The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.
The article is about the discovery of Noah's ark.
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Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used.
Allowing industry to determine its own privacy policies is what's best for consumers
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) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects.
Herbs may have undesirable effects as well.
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says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.
Norm Dicks of Washington is sticking with his original statement.
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Chrysler's elaborate system of dealerships might, in theory, help Mercedes crack the U.S. market, where its share is now less than 1 percent.
Verily, Mercedes is the most abundantly selling brand yielding a full Cornucopia at Thanksgiving.
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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.
Harvey was arrested for his brazen stunt.
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Can you believe this?
Reality is being questioned.
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If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for?
Finding your life's purpose means finding out how to contribute to others.
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That's not your demographic profile on the Net, observes consultant Rob Arena, of Presage Internet Consulting, who coordinated Bob Dole's Internet campaign in 1996.
Rob Arena was involved with Bob Dole's Internet campaign
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I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.
The Committee of Advice stopped writing last month.
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Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation.
Starr connected his criminality with the civil litigation.
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Keirsey does not muck around in your excretions in order to determine your personality.
Keirsey knows what they are doing.
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Not to orthodox quiz participants, for whom greeting cards are to genuine manifestations of feeling what Big Macs are to real hamburgers, with some sort of joke about Hallmark and bulimia--and an ugly image that would be, if only I had the wit to express it.
The author feels that there exists a comical juxtaposition between Hallmark greeting cards and McDonalds.
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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 dead son was 6 feet tall
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At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.
Finkelstein makes fun of the Jew who made racist remarks about ungrateful black people
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Most alarmingly, convenience gambling exacts huge social costs in the form of addiction and financial hardship without providing any economic benefit.
convenience gambling results in massive economic benefits for everyone.
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I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant.
The image of Chinese entering an American restaurant might have been funny to some readers 50 years ago.
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Bond rejected this advice.
Bond received advice
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Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.
Washington will provide humanitarian aid to Slobo.
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It's the kind where you look for everything, you vacuum up everything that's unfavorable, use all of it, whether it's rumor, fact, innuendo, hearsay, use all it, and don't let a kind word get in the whole thing.
There is more negative than positive to be said about it.
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Hey, Mambo!Mambo Italiano ...Go, go, Joe!You mixed-up Siciliano
I'm very angry at you Lady, You're from Poland.
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After the injection they--honestly--seem rather depressed.
They looked quite happy after being poked with a needle.
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In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all.
Truthful shadow pages are the least scariest of all.
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[F]rom the moment Cecilia Bartoli's vibrant Idamante arrives on stage, the performance takes wing, her luscious, tight vibrato perfectly capturing the adolescent trauma of the young prince, says the Independent 's Mark Pappenheim.
Idamante is mute onstage.
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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.
Brown selling out for $700,000 caused quite chaos.
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We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste.
Most of the Gmail messages we get are very disheartening.
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One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries.
The Checkout-Line factor increases food-stamp use.
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If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.
The taxes are high.
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Hammerschmidt-Hummel, working with a team of scientists using advanced photographic techniques, found close similarities between the mask and a famous bust of Shakespeare, which she believes was copied from it.
The mask was found in London
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His apology, June 12: If I knew it was like a religious-type deal, I would have never said it.
He made his apology sometime in December.
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I do not know whether this theory is true.
They are certain that the theory is true.
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But he's more comfortable behind the scenes
He feels at home in front of the camera.
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To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage.
Miller is untalented.
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They would simplify background investigations and financial disclosures.
Their job is to simplify things to make them easier to understand.
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He frequently quotes Ronald Reagan.
He has never heard of Ronald Reagan.
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At worst, he is amassing credentials, fame, and wealth on the basis of others' uncredited labor--once considered a scholarly sin.
A scholarly sin once existed
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In theory, for-profits are equipped to do it through greater efficiency--economies of scale, easier closure of failing operations, and better access to capital.
Every for-profit has excellent efficiency.
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This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!
Lawyers use boostrap arguments.
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After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe.
Hubble failed before.
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The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it.
Adventurers feel dejected whenever someone has already did what they've done before.
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Some people think you have it easier.
You have more challenges than most.
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In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married.
The taxes of these rich people will go up a bit.
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People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.
Women care more about their looks than men.
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But apparently no definitive number ...
The number is definitive.
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President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan.
President Clinton signaled that he will be unwilling to compromise, citing differences to the 1996 welfare bill negotiations.
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Why would Gates allow the publication of such a book with his byline and photo on the dust jacket?
Gates' byline and photo are on the dust jacket
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The old conventional Sibelius was a vulgar nationalist (a la Wagner) and a windy Romantic bore.
Musicians tend to be nationalists.
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But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available.
The oligarchs were quickly converting dollars into rubles.
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That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxe...
The emerging Republican crowd as described by Kevin Phillips, loved Bobby Kennedy and everything he stood for.
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(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.
Americans don't care what happens in Asia.
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Our campaigns often end up doing the very opposite of what they intend, Bradley laments.
Bradley has been participating in campaigns for only a year.
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Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.
The 1998 Women's hockey team was expected to win the gold medal at the Olympics.
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And when it comes from the white right, it's narcissism in the service of hypocrisy.
Both Parties are modest
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I'll say it Read the directions.
There is a lack of directions available.
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Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton)...
Newsweek thinks that Starr should drop the case.
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A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.
Car and Driver and Fortune is a sports car magazine.
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This from a former chief clerk for a U.S.
This person is currently a lawyer.
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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.
More general male losses are illuminated via stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California.
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But in setting up a world-vs.
There are steps to follow in setting up a world-vs.
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Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.
Chernomyrdin was chosen for the mission because he was the only candidate that volunteered.
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Can I, should I, even, expect her to change?
She is not willing to change
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In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.
The Black Power movement occurred in the 90s.
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But these targets still seem far out of reach.
The archery range has only easy to hit dummies.
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Not as big a deal as the Pulitzers yet, but in the ballpark.
The Pulitzer has lost its standing among journalists.
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Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies.
Kate thinks the lawyers might lie
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The main reason the media have greeted Jack Kemp so rapturously isn't his ideas, his optimism, or his compassion.
The media did not greet Jack Kemp rapturously.
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Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?
His major achievement is a piece of legislation
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James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.
James BeauSeigneur is a failure and writes nothing worthwhile.
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Fashion is as acceptable in France as any imaginative work, and criticism about it has certainly flourished there.
Inside the Fashion world of France there is much acceptance, but not so much criticism.
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And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.
Rapid economic development is only achieveable through low wages and manufactored exports.
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How did Clinton win public support for bombing Serbia?
The President told Americans that the military action was necessary to save lives.
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(For more on the meeting, see .) (2/22/99)
The meeting was in the winter
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Reed takes his place in 2002.
Reed took his place in 2020.
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Unless, of course, when it comes to Internet shares there is no sensible middle.
Terms are difficult to find when it comes to internet shares.
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As developers kill the bugs, they incorporate the solutions into a daily build of the program and test the build to make certain the solutions don't cause additional bugs.
Developers intentionally code bugs into their programs
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He enrolled at the Dallas Conservatory of Music, and sang Gilbert and Sullivan in New York City opera houses before perceiving that there was a market in hillbilly songs.
He started out singing hillbilly songs.
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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 bills are made to increase the Border Patrol's power.
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