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It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame.
Brinkley's acquaintances find his fixation on fame to be admirable.
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As in his Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), the outcome of every scene is predictable, but how Zaillian gets from beat to beat is surprisingly fresh.
Searching for Bobby Fischer, which was directed by Zaillian, had some fresh moments.
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USAT : After all, this is the man about whom Carly Simon was rumored to have written the hit 1972 song, You're So Vain.
You're So Vain is a hit song that Carly Simon wrote about a women.
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Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.
The primaries are a long way off.
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Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate.
Conyers has a lot of evidence.
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But it is to say that females--an inherently scarce sexual resource, in Darwinian terms--are in both species a big part of the impetus for the evolution of aggressive tendencies in males.
According to Darwin, women are a scarce sexual resource.
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Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the predi...
Steve Roberts's spouse agrees with him on all major political issues
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American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China.
American companies made a claim
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It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.
Women are demanding change from this work environment.
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Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989.
Adam Michnik was charged with a chrime.
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Don't fight over small issues.
Not fighting over small issues will lead to better success.
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A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
The ownership of the Zapruder film has been settled definitely.
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No horned helmet was found, but the discovery is complicating--perhaps overturning--theories about the settlement of North America.
The horned helmet discovery was complicating theories about North American settlements.
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In the 1830s and 1840s, the system accounted for more than three-quarters of U.S. federal employees.
The system accounted for greater than 75% of federal employees in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s.
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In the spirit of the ongoing pile-on on journalists, I have to argue that journalists are to blame for rock pomposity.
The pile-on of journalists has just ended.
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Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.
Privatization is a method of investing for your future.
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That leaves Case 1. But if you believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of your fabulously wealthy grandchildren, you must also believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of Bill Gates.
Your grandchildren are poor.
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Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a
The speaker wasn't absolutely sure that the Hypocondriack term applied.
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The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed.
The media did not feel it was up to them to probe Bush's history.
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Its well-tended (by the federal government) parks, monuments, mansions, embassies, and museums can compare with those of any city in the world.
Its impeccable parks can compare with those of any city in the world.
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His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall.
Bose makes audio equipment.
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The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.
Huffington is a bit dull according to this article.
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Idon't generally complain about oppressive patriarchal social structures, but Ferberism is a good example of one.
Patriarchal social structures are not as stable as matriarchal social structures.
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And they look so cool.
They don't appear cool.
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He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives.
George and John were the Bush brothers
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Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.
The patient will wake up.
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The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended.
The congressional session should begin to impeach now, while people are fired up and angry.
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Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation.
An office of the New York Administration for Children's Services will accept reports from the public.
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But if so, this was self-delusion on a really impressive scale.
He wasn’t arrogant
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Unfortunately for the GOP, the sophistication and delicacy of the ads is already being overwhelmed by the Democrats' simplification of them.
The ad's sophistication and delicacy were amplified by the Democrats' glorification of them.
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And they don't need to--the 13 missiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States have always been judged capable of hitting U.S. cities by the Pentagon (though China's difficulty in commercial launches casts doubt on the Pentagon's assessment).
The projectiles are hand carried and then thrown like baseballs.
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In the '50s, nobody wanted the movies to show all that except for the Italian ones, where the sexiest women all wore ill-fitting slips and had hairy armpits, too.
Italian movie stars in the '50s were the most popular worldwide.
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(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.)
The magazine considers high spending on instruction to be a low priority and undesirable.
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In BeauSeigneur's novels, the Antichrist is Jewish, for sure, but he's also a man who was produced in a lab by misguided scientists using cells taken from the Shroud of Turin.
BeauSeigneur has been criticized for antisemitism
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Fearing his powers might be waning as he approached 30, Nash decided he would solve the most important unresolved problem in the Riemann Zeta conjecture.
a super hero is exactly 55 years old.
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Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs.
They have heard a lot of tales that cause alarm about HMOs.
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You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together.
His genius and self-destruction are completely separate from each other.
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Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades.
He is often prone to tirades.
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Congratulations to all our winners.
No one won the game.
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TV demos capture neither the exhilaration nor the fear, conveying instead the smug fatuity of some second-unit director who believes social change is for saps; DGA cards are for winners.
Second-unit directors who believe social change is important deserve DGA cards.
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We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful.
All of the reporting from the New York Times on Richard Nixon that was published contained only positive remarks.
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, and appeared here in 1977.
It appeared in 1977.
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The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review.
Mr Michael has never been to Los Angeles
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Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.
I speak with an Australian accent.
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European national leaders know they've got to tackle their deficits, but none of them wants the heat for cutting featherbedding or generous social-payment systems.
The European deficit is high because of social programs.
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The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
The Torah has been revised and changed over time.
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Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.
Sam Giancana treated everyone nicely.
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Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course.
Clinton's Whitewater troubles went unnoticed.
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It depends, in short, upon what the meaning of the word negotiation is.
How you define the word negotiation matters.
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these many columns and articles on the subject.
People disliked the subject so much that few articles and columns were written about it.
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She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.
I'm not of it, but I'm in this world
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While most people want to believe that God created us one way or another, few can swallow the literal creationist reading of the Bible, which holds that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
Many people want to believe that God created everyone.
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And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign.
Halls Zinc Defense is a cream.
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
It is newly improved
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Once considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether.
The social scientific method is in trouble
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He stood for what he believed in.
He defended the things he thought were right.
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An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.
Mad Magazine's East Side Story was a late version of this type of thing
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It's true that different pieces benefit from different treatment
The pieces are all the same.
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I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology.
Michael J. Thun worked with others to write the study.
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After clicking your purchases into a shopping cart, you are directed to a secure Netscape server that will encrypt your credit-card information.
It is hard for criminals to bypass the encryption.
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McCain, for example, demands an investigation of the allegations about technology transfer [and] all these campaign contributions that came out of China.
McCain is unconcerned with Chinese contributions
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( explains what Greenspan really said.)
It was fully explained.
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(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)
Animals were disapproved of by Mother Teresa.
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Willey might have a better case against Clinton if she wants to make it--and if her story is true.
Willey and Clinton are on opposite sides of an agreement.
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The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.
Escape from Alcatraz was featured on TCM
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Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.
Congressional representatives will be voting on impeachment articles soon
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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 Jewish
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Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, too, is working on behalf of the companies involved in the settlement, and he deserves as much scorn as his Democratic counterparts.
Haley Barbour is acting reprehensively and should be treated as such.
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The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.
The Vatican disapproves of ministering to gays
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But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.
Gerth was not totally honest.
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The Post 's Michael Kelly goes cutesy today, dedicating his column to the regular broadcasts of what he calls National Tom Radio, the daily pronouncements of his 2 a year-old, in the process probably setting some kind of record for the number of occurrences of the word mommy in a Post op-ed piece.
Michael Kelly is a physicist.
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will probably experience a series of terrible events--wrenching calamities that are economic or social or environmental in nature seems well within the realm of plausibility.
The world in uneventful.
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We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful.
We are asked to have empathy for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times.
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I gave my stock In the first place, we don't know the truth; in the second place, the presidency is not a person but a team.
There is no way of finding the truth.
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The publication doesn't report where Mrs.
The "Text" in unintelligible; I cannot make sense of it.
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to the credible evolution of what's really become of me.
My evolution has been drastic.
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(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
Bush would gladly be part of the Trilateral Commission.
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Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
Vaclav Havel lost his 1990 campaign and was unable to become Czechoslovakia's elected executive leader.
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The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.
Something must be done about it.
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An article explores McDonald's niche offerings.
McDonalds offer niche items.
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And U.K. giant British Telecom purchased MCI.
MCT was bought by Telecom.
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Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.
Atom Egoyan had to adapt and direct the book at one point in the past.
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The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.
The company was excited by the faulty soldering .
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Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate.
Reno is not conducting an investigation.
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John maintains his innocence from death row.
John has confessed to the crime
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What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable.
She is only looking for intimacy from men because they are larger than her.
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I've been hit with a restraining order prohibiting me from finishing the sentence.
A restraining order was placed on him.
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The flip side is that parolees who want to go straight often can make it if they are literate, civil, and can stay off drugs, remain sober, and get a job.
More white parolees make it compared to black
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The Falcons, who have stunk perennially, are football's best Cinderella story in years.
The Falcons have not won previously.
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He's in his own league.
His league is far above any other
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Zercher says Lindsey called her and urged her to say all positive things about her experiences.
Zercher is going to speak highly of Lindsey so that she can get the job.
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In the face of this opposition, Republicans played the molester card.
Republicans did not react to the opposition.
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That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!
The speaker believes that it would be a massive blockbuster in the future.
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The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself.
TheStreet.com and MoneyCentral perform different work in every respect in regard to subject.
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Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.
Marilyn Monroe had a great body
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Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.
Starling's clients were celebrities.
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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 poem embodies divine grandeur as a trite vision of nature.
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More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light.
Stocks are unpredictable and can be difficult to understand.
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It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.
The author is a movie critic.
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The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead.
General-interest weekly magazines like Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead because of the internet.
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