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The product itself won't be in stores until summer, so it's way too early to know how the shaving public will respond.
Rather than the Summer months of June, July, and August, the product should be ready by the Spring months of March, April and May.
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More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial.
Racial identity is whatever the person identified says it is.
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The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.
There isn't any economic gains in the country currently.
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He models No Limit on the mob, not the Fortune 500.
He has great disdain for No Limit
contradiction
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring.
Bush is introducing new moral issues to help show him in a good light.
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
Tollbooths have become outdated over time in which they are unecessary.
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No doubt he will do better in his next book.
There are many doubts that he will improve
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There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget.
The administration expects a negative reaction from the public if they were to forgive and forget
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It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
It aims to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
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It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line.
Industrialized countries have no interest in keeping an eye on their adversaries
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But a real predator I know is using, selling, and almost certainly doing other crimes.
The predator commits crimes of fraud.
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(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.)
None of their friends own a fax machine
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The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality.
The Turkis Army killed many enemies.
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The cover profile makes Jerry Seinfeld seem quite charming, if a tad immature.
Jerry Seinfeld's cover profile makes Jerry immature.
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How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles?
Most articles are 20 percent wrong (minimum)
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This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries.
everyone has high respect for national sovereignty of the foreign countries
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By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman.
The Baldwins don't take life seriously until they get married.
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Kaaterskill Falls ,by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press).
The Dial Press paid Allegra Goodman a large sum for the rights to publish Kaaterskill Falls.
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It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown.
Albania wanted to be independent.
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The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.
Despite the drawbacks, Bauer will prevail in the election
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Bill Gates realized it would be more efficient if all computers, regardless of manufacturer, ran the same system (which is why he's the richest man in America today).
Bill Gates doesn't know much about computer efficiency in present day.
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(The study centered on where you are likely to find women starting new careers after being publicly humiliated by their husbands.)
Starting a new career is easy, especially after being humiliated.
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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 collectibles.
entailment
Thanks again for enduring what must have been a trying cartoon to publish.
A cartoon was published.
entailment
Just two weeks ago, I watched him on Rivera Live spin the nation on the subject of the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship.
Most networks spin the news one way or another.
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And this means that capital is not playing its necessary disciplining role.
No one thinks that capital in not playing its necessary disciplining role.
contradiction
Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue.
Gloria Steinnem believes that in the new incarnation Ms fat is a femnist issue.
contradiction
Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.
William Shawn was loved by Mehta.
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Conflicted over what its true mission is, PBS simultaneously whores for corporate money and aggressively gathers data on how poor, uneducated, and blue-collar its audience is.
PBS is a paid cable channel.
contradiction
The editors Slate is here for the duration.
Slate shall endure through the ages
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The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now.
You would be divorce if you actually wanted to be.
entailment
No More Teachers, No More Books ...
People want education to move away from teachers and books.
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You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?
You will overdose on the drugs because you have no self control.
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It also creates a presumption that it will be treated.
It is assumed it will be deadly.
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Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.
Disney's decision to produce Beowulf will make them billionaires.
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Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ).
The film has detractors
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Dentistry is a hassle now because it works.
Dentistry is not real work
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The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
The society is almost always completely censored
contradiction
When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.
Stewart claims to have an audience greater than Jefferson's.
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Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty.
Carlyle was writing in the 1800s
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Ianni writes, Johnson essentially worked as a middleman for the Italian syndicate.
Ianni wrote about Johnson
entailment
Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years.
Murder, She Wrote hasn't had any new episodes in years
entailment
The cover essay reflects on hate, describing it as a personal psychological reaction to idiosyncratic experience.
Hate is a uniform experience.
contradiction
An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television.
The return of offbeat television was not well received by the viewers.
neutral
And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist.
Bradley can't afford to look like a teacher.
contradiction
Similarly, the idea that Native American babies, or black babies, or whatever, have some mystical genetic affinity with their own kind is silly.
Native American babies are born with the ability to hear each others thoughts.
contradiction
Instead she runs through all the euphemisms for oral sex and then the video cuts to XXX action with gratuitous commentary.
The woman mentioned a number of sexual acts that are performed with the mouth.
entailment
Still, the tip of political e-commerce is beginning to poke up through the Web's surface.
Governmental agencies are seeking to keep political e-commerce beneath the Web's surface
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The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.
Charlotte created magnent schools to attract more students in the area.
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It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line.
Syria is currently under sanctions
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You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal?
The person who is being asked a question wants to say yes.
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Mavis believes the deaths are accidental, but circumstances suggest that the act was at least unconsciously volitional.
Circumstances suggest that the act was at least unconsciously volitional.
entailment
As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has only ever owned cats.
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So while the colors may fade less, your detergent is also cleaning less.
People use detergent to clean clothes.
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One common mistake is to count federal grants-in-aid as state and local taxes, but that's double counting, since they're already paid for by federal taxes.
Accountants often make this double counting mistake.
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process one out of every four checks in the country.
The country uses pins to process their financial transactions, eliminating all checks.
contradiction
I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy.
The joke isn't funny.
entailment
A Utility Maximizer wants to acquire many things, including cash, but also such things as trips to the beach, time to watch TV, adorable grandkids, and (probably most important in this case) professional prestige.
Professional prestige is last on the list of priorities for utility maximizers.
contradiction
For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.
Income inequality leads to a higher change of divorce.
entailment
The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out.
The book's storyline details anonymous love letters from a girl to her boyfriend.
contradiction
Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.
The cops caught the thief
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Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay.
Tom DeLay is crying.
entailment
The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable.
Kathleen Willey wanted to punish Julie Hiatt Steele in some way.
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The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.
The most devastating rebuttal came from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis.
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Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument.
Their argument is ironic.
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But by the time Avis' employees bought the company, the new thinking was that there was no better way of encouraging their creativity and dedication.
Avis employees loved to work there.
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Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.
Using the form the first time is really easy.
contradiction
To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl and Great Depression occurred in roughly the same time period
entailment
A piece describes how women in their 20s donate eggs to infertile couples for thousands of dollars.
All couples are fertile
contradiction
Many News Quiz responses were rejected by Slate 's e-mail server.
The Slate's email server was too accepting, none of the responses were rejected.
contradiction
Also, studies showed that, at the lower, pasteurization doses, radiation does not degrade nutrients.
Radiation doesn't degrade nutrients at pasteurization doses.
entailment
The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.
The leather boxes aren't big enough to hold a tiara.
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Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining.
Genetic redlining has yet to be studied.
contradiction
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein.
People are talking about Saddam Hussein.
entailment
Anglicans are particularly aggrieved by the no-Protestants policy.
Anglicans refuse to be around Protestants.
contradiction
As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the wreckage of a large part of economic theory.)
Sir John Hicks, a well-known thinker, predicted that nothing of consequence would happen as a result of increasing returns.
contradiction
They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.
He will never be prosecuted
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Not only did it promote freedom more than any statesman or soldier did by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics, influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.
Joyce was born before Einstein.
contradiction
A horse sitter mistakenly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.
Mr. Ed's horse sitter was concerned about his condition and decided to tranquilize him.
entailment
Almost instantly, kids in each group formed bonds of loyalty and group identification.
Kids in the groups found that they had shared interests and ethnic backgrounds in common and became close because of this.
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People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally.
Darwinian theory talks about human masturbation.
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(It is this same vision that Kaplan so admires.)
Kaplan admires this same vision because it benefits himself
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But, The Christians are at it again?
This has happened many times before.
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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.
TV demos sometimes convey the smug stupidity of second-unit directors.
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I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.
Tom Daschle likes to get to the point.
entailment
Progressives are more definitive than most other observations about patently obvious things in society.
Progressives are very observant.
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The unit immediately below us has been rented out as a live/work space to a couple with a video business.
We live atop a video business.
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There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001.
There are multiple ways for Clinton to extricate himself from this situation.
contradiction
Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out.
Politicians would rather hide their political positions than risk offending their constituents.
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The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen.
There are ten morals in total that can keep children safe.
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The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.
Catholics not only have gays among them, they also defile the altar boys regularly
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It also creates a presumption that it will be treated.
It is assumed it will be healed.
entailment
The play is Spencer's life reduced to Two Weddings and a Funeral , a quaint and titillating Bloomsbury parallelogram, says the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons.
the man was married three times.
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You look as hot as that pie, darlin', he said, glancing at the cleavage of her firm, young breasts, while her breath quickened with expectation.
The man objectified the woman, praising her physical form and comparing her to dessert.
entailment
Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal.
INS was directed to deport asylum seekers by Clinton under the immigration bill in 1994
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Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day).
A post will be available on Thursday.
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In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products.
The winner's curse effect gets passed on generationally.
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At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk.
She had handfuls of clothes.
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The more she's covered, the less people care about her, and the more reporters hyperbolize.
Reporters have to much power in how others see her.
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Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.
The oil price surge will continue into next week
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