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Moreover, after Gerth's article the White House released a series of documents detailing the decision.
The White House article was written by the Gerth.
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He had a decade of writing his novel behind him and almost three more ahead of him.
He had almost three decades of writing ahead of him
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They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.
The entire pundit establishment was not a big fan of William Ginsburg.
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This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
Justice Powell never spoke about affirmative action.
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And this means that capital is not playing its necessary disciplining role.
Some people think that capital in not playing a disciplining role.
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If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
Darth Vader built C3PO
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I could have sworn I had my 10-foot pole right here ...
My 10 foot pole is right next to me.
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(A Versace show opened with razor-sharp bias-cut asymmetrical navy dresses, stern except for a frill at the hem and a swatch of black lace that masked eyes.
The dresses were worn by 18-year-olds
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The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.
Huffington is one very excited dude.
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Which might suggest that real business news is no more popular than it ever was.
real business news has recently been suggested to not be any more popular than previous years.
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It seems no one can stand this, and whenever we encounter friends or relatives, they invariably ask personal questions to try to get each of us to speak ill of the other.
Friends and relatives want us to get along.
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Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.
Ferraro doesn't deserve the salary he is paid.
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Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off.
You should remove the helmet so that you are easier to hear
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In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages.
The organizations funded the media to push their own agenda.
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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 demand for citizenships is very high because people want the benefits that come with it.
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Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.
The federal government knows that disaster money is well sought after.
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Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa
Jane and Mary decided that maneuvering for Owens' attention and cash was beneath them.
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Coke refuses to concede, directing inordinate attention to even tiny neighborhoods.
Coke eventually won.
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The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be.
there are more people out there who could round out the list.
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The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.
The strong bonds were kindled by conditions that people may find peaceful and calming today.
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In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.
The US does not tolerate Adolf Hitler films.
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Felicia's Journey takes place behind the eyes of its central a young Irish girl, Felicia, who crosses the sea to England in a hopeful quest to find the father of her unborn child; and the fat, middle-aged catering manager, Hiditch, who takes a paternal interest in the lass when it becomes clear that her young man has ...
She is traveling to London
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In criticizing the ability of the exclusionary rule to reverse a conviction, he The wrong done was the search, not the conviction.
The author feels that the search was entirely justified.
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(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
Fiction and nonfiction are separated by black and white differences.
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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).
Genius can be confused with madness
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The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said.
The heir remained a citizen of the United States.
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The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need.
The sign was old
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ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.
ABC has problems that cannot be solved easily.
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I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles.
Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker are both scientists.
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The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.
The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor are based on some assumptions.
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will be more accurate than jurors who are unsure about only one criterion (does my doubt exceed 5 percent?)
Jurors need to be 95 percent sure of their verdict.
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Against this background, Bush's Guard service looks noble.
Bush's Guard service looks noble.
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Many of the qualities attributed to Clinton's women also describe his mother, Virginia Kelley.
Clinton liked his mother.
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I don't see any reason to postpone the vote.
To delay to the vote would be unnecessary.
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With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.
NYC is experiencing low crime rates and good economy.
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Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
Conglomerates have given up on books about personal stories and interesting character development to focus on wild action and adventure novels.
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An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
Low be unto you, you dogs of freedom, giving no quarter or fair trial for theft, this is wrong says the editor.
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The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom.
The Times is a journalistic entity that hires reporters.
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Unfortunately, that's a principle that doesn't seem to be at work in a capital market that just can't say no.
The principle would be better in a different capital market.
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The anti-poker campaign has galvanized the state like no issue ever has.
The anti-poker campaign has motivated the state.
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Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!
Auctions move at a slow pace
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The language is lackluster, the pacing leaden, the cliches plentiful, and the surprises few--no, not the campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses (Well, yes, but I'm thinking of something else here.)
One is detailing information about the quality of campaign speeches.
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Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again.
Davey and Goliath was critically panned
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They seemed to enjoy it, and it was extremely helpful to us.
They were inconvenienced
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Sheppard, Time ). Skeptics renew old attacks on sociobiology's all-encompassing view of human nature.
Sociobiology is debated and not considered a hard science.
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Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist.
Clinton secretly had another affair after the Lewinsky affair.
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Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.
Critics had no interest in the story.
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Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.
Hand-bound books are quaint and bring about a lot of nostalgia.
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Other candidates may be sexier at this hour, but once we go through the battering of New Hampshire and Iowa it might be a different story, says Connors.
The true frontrunner will emerge after the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.
They have imagined what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.
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Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say Salman, I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time?
Katrina van den Heuval wore a backless dress.
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Right now there is nothing approaching an international regime for keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Terrorists have easy access to things that will naturally injure human kind.
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As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job.
The parolee has experience as a bricklayer
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In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.
Larson could perform any style of music.
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New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction
Being charged with a felony will impact the rest of your life.
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Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers.
It is okay to change the ability to fly throughout the show if it makes things easier for the filmmakers.
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Attitudes changed too.
My sister's attitude changed too.
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Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.
Mann failed to get anything on the screen
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Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines.
Conde Nast is based in New York and is involved in a medium of communication
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Birch pointed out that conservatives defend serial and childless heterosexual marriages, but the whole topic was a loser for her.
Bitch's point won the argument.
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Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.
The document I have here is perfect, thanks.
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Entering Final Four weekend, I rank no higher than 12,277 th place in any of them.
I am not highly ranked
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On Meet the Press , he insisted that the $150 he allots to each person's monthly insurance premium is not a cap.
He gives everyone at least $150 every month for insurance.
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I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset.
RIAS was set up in 1942.
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It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
Backlash is a flashy but misleading rubric.
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But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.
They will pass the class after being helped.
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But I'm going to have a specific agenda that addresses what I think are the big concerns as we go into the 21 st century.
The author has a plan.
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To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing ...
The story in the New York Times was poorly written in a hurry and had little information.
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He's calling all hands on deck.
He needs everyone to join in.
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By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet.
I calculate it went exactly 479 feet.
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When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless.
Kurlak is a critic for Intel products.
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American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China.
The launches helped Russia more than either the US or China
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but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight
The axe man is a beheader.
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By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education.
Millions of Americans are on the internet.
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Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are sa...
Veronica Chambers thinks the trademark songs are the best she's ever heard.
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He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.
He is known for preaching doom and gloom.
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This has rekindled the concern and outrage sparked a few weeks ago by the similar death of a pledge at Louisiana State University.
Everyone was fine with the death of the Louisiana State University pledge.
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Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?
Companies sometimes quit before they're ahead.
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' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
The memory is extremely pleasant
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Seconds after tipoff, Jordan launched a turnaround jumper, his new signature shot, hitting nothing but net.
Jordan scored just seconds after tipoff.
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When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade.
The corporate world has short term interests.
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Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising.
Online advertisers are doing more anti-drug advertising
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Overpaid athletes, teams that abandon their cities, and absurd ticket prices (average NHL $40.
The NHL will be losing fans very quickly if they don't change their ways.
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McCain's media cheering section neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy.
McCain conservative stances caused him to completely embrace tax and health-care policies.
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It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous.
Regis' presence makes a million bucks lack value and purpose.
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Unless Wanamaker was willing to pay double for reaching the right half of the people, his total ad spending would go down and not up.
Wanamaker can afford the extra cost of ad spending.
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You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
Clinton's piety and recklessness was widely discussed.
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They don't see a need for Washington.
They understood that their lifeblood went straight back to Washington's politics.
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perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.
The "Text" in unintelligible; I cannot make sense of it.
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Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.
Chynna Phillips was related to Wilson Phillips
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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.
Archer is a republican supporter and dislikes the democrats.
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Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.
The relaxed fiscal policies are hurting the boom.
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So we all have benefited indirectly.
We were able to get the direct benefits, but the indirect benefits were intercepted before we could collect.
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In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law.
The Taliban implemented Jewish law
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(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)
The site contains many information about the show.
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Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket.
The extreme clothing for men is the Hawaiian shirt.
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First, it loses sales of Windows 95.
Windows 95 will recover it's loses eventually.
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He was evading a question about Universal's troubled Pig in the City . He's under oath.
He was under oath and evading a question.
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3) Fragmentary intelligence suggests that China wanted to channel money to Clinton's campaign.
China supported Clinton for president
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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.
Women make up the majority of people working for minimum wage.
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