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But in the world we live in--or at least in the neighborhood I live in--there are so many interchangeable dry cleaners that none of them should be able to get away with exploiting anyone.
There is only one dry cleaner in the neighborhood and therefore, the dry cleaner can exploit its customers with impunity.
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The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op.
The other copy is missing the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op.
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Well, maybe two jokes if you count Heritage USA; is that still for sale?
Heritage USA is still on the market.
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Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it.
Gibson's condition improved slowly at first, but now he's rapidly getting better.
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Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge.
Mencken was president.
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24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox...
24/Seven collects features from the publication Slate.
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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.
Rubles were being converted into dollars so quickly that soon the dollar become the most popular currency in the country.
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My favorite detail is the TV commercial where they pour out of the giant Bible.
The TV commercial is promoting Sunday School.
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Later, McLaughlin refers to Saddam's Republican Guard as the Red Guard.
Saddam has a Guard.
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
It is uncorrupted
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But in the long run, it's unavoidable.
One can avoid it in the long run.
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What will I impugn, if not motives?
All motives are pure.
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Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.
Social values determine mental illness diagnosis.
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Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.
the author was the first to think of it.
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Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society.
Finding out he's to formal for your society brings a smile to his face.
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But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.
Davis is a seducer.
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The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.
Bennet writes kids books.
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Your letter was so charming that Prudie almost forgot it was about a problem.
Prudie hardly noticed the letter at all
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Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article.
The article's focus is away from the post-colonial era.
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When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS.
The sign is welcoming to Canadians.
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The fourth quarter is Jordan Time.
Jordan Time was initially known as the third quarter.
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Zeus, not surprisingly, fancies himself their leader.
Zeus has only been leader once and is often denied the chance.
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In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic.
Saxton did not like to talk.
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Life aboard ship is tough
It is tough on a ship because of the loneliness
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Then I jump in with a higher bid at the end, hoping that at least some of those competitors are away from their computers and unable to respond.
This is a good strategy.
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(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.)
The FEC reported that in 1992 half of the donations failed.
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The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes.
The Indonesian movement became huge.
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The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.
Excessive amount of sports metaphors is a major element of the piece.
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead.
Deng Xiaoping was in his 80s when he died
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Last June, the Supreme Court ruled that political parties (as well as PACs, interest groups, and individuals) can make unlimited independent expenditures on behalf of candidates.
The Supreme Court ruled that it is ok to legalize corruption.
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The Associated Press notes she's leaving two months after The New Yorker brought in a new publisher and began to merge operations with other Conde Nast publications to save money.
The woman is leaving due to this new publisher and merge.
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But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.
It is possible that the links may also be genetic.
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IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.
Juan Antonio Samaranch was the IOC president.
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That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.
The man was willing to stand up to the chief beneficiary
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It is this matter, he has said, which led him to found Judicial Watch in 1994.
Judicial Watch didn't exist until 1994.
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Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e.
Possesses a firearm
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Both mags also cover hot, new drug Ginkgo biloba.
you will be unable to find articles written on Ginkgo biloba
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Get rid of all guns?
Keep every gun?
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Goodman's explanations of Jewish ritual sometimes veer from the helpful to the condescendingly overexplicit, as if she were writing for young adults.
Goodman explains a religious ritual
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That one, I suspect, is harder to refute.
That weak argument is easy to rebut
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Leaving a Doll's House and What Falls Away seem less like vindictive, manipulative performances than like baby steps in the right direction.
Leaving the two projects is a waste of time.
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For a turnaround to be real, the company has to become not merely profitable but also positioned for steady growth.
Having a solid customer base doesn't hurt either.
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Second, the whole fiasco was the best thing that could have happened to the firm.
Something happened during the fiasco that caused the firm to go out of business.
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But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and
Anns mother was speaking loudly when she spoke to Stritzer, she must have been under the weather.
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The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.
The art and humanities national endowments were created in 1935.
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Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free.
Acne-scarred donors are very popular
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Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?
Big banks were other institutional investors
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Or Caltech on Top (Until We Fiddle With Rules Again).
We will fiddle with the rules again.
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An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.
An essay praised feminists' resistance to Clinton
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There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.
This was not fun, but was still very meaningful and worthwhile.
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All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.
It takes him a long time to come up with zingers.
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The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.
Russia maintained its important weapons and personnel.
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Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.
Internet service facilitates sharing of data between users.
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The villains were the blacklisters.
The villains were the whitelisters.
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The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said.
The computer was programmed to do all of the composing.
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Ad revenue increased but not enough to cover enormous new Recruiting new subscribers by direct mail, printing more magazines, and mailing more magazines are tremendously expensive operations.
The prospect of finding customers, purchasing additional printings, and sending them out are costly.
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Readers are of course invited to submit their candidates to the Rock Pomposity Sweepstakes at culturebox@slate.com.
Submissions are going to close in one week
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Many of the qualities attributed to Clinton's women also describe his mother, Virginia Kelley.
Virginia Kelley is related to Clinton.
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The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.
Some think the pie has grown to be too large.
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Terrible scenes of massacres, bombings, and the like are displayed almost daily.
These are the scene from a war.
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Ut's was not the only camera present
The other cameras are the same brand as Ut's.
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John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that.
John McLaughlin has a show
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They may want to consult an astrophysicist as well as a plastic surgeon.
Because they consulted an astrophysicist, they cancelled the plastic surgeon's consultation as they had already learned about planetary trajectories.
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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
Sadness is seeing great institutions become much smaller in the long run.
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(By contrast, Slate 's assessment relies entirely upon sources who are not identified by name.)
Slate cited sources by name.
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A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.
Saddam's daughter leads the unit
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News junked copies of its original edition to put out the Kennedy special.)
The original edition was not effected at all by the release of the Kennedy special.
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Given his track record as the District's mayor, you might want to sell your stock in that company.
The mayor has stock in the company.
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And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure.
Said is motivated by anti-Western leftist animus.
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If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.
If, after three months of age, your baby wakes at night wanting to be fed, she is developing normally.
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and she was talking gibberish.
Her words were clear and concise
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If one thinks Ken Starr is out of control, the other, ideally, should argue that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement.
Bill Clinton knifes Ken Starr.
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To protect your privacy, ask your bank to restrict access to your records and beg your member of Congress for legislative protections.
Unless you are bound and determined to keep things private, anyone is free to sell your data to the highest bidder.
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(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
George W Bush's father had a membership in the Trilateral Commision.
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In 1990, Milliken supplied crucial seed money to the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank headed by former Reagan administration official Clyde Prestowitz; thereafter, he contributed more than 10 percent of ESI's budget.
1990 was the first year Milliken provided money to the Economic Strategy Institute
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The explanation is partly the frog-in-hot-water phenomenon (he'll jump out if you drop him in boiling water, but not if you put him in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling).
The frog-in-hot-water phenomenon is only a fable and not scietifically proven.
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The Times speculated that NATO officials leaked the bad news to persuade Congress not to pull out the troops.
The newspaper has a theory about who spilled the beans
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Hillary could have known in detail, known in general, not wanted to know, or truly had no idea.
Hillary most likely knew.
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The answer to the question How does the device work?
The answer to the question "How does the device work?" is rather simple.
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'If prison is going to be my next home,' he did not quip, 'I'd better get used to this.
He quipped that he might have to get used to this
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3. But the victory feels pretty hollow.
The victors did not like the way they played the game.
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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 shows his love for his old droid
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We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.
We did this out of self-interest and not philanthropy.
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The personal destruction spin is a big winner.
The general public is horrified and repelled by any sort of personal destruction, no matter who is involved.
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Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries.
The US purposely refused to ratify the treaty by the April 29th deadline because they disagreed with key points in it.
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You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement.
Schools push sports on their students.
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McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is.
Theodore Roosevelt was a famous leader.
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I spent 10 years in commercial aviation with two U.S. flag carriers and offer the following comments based on that experience.
Please note I have no experience with the air force.
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Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes.
The product is being reviewed well.
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Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate.
The President had the edge in the argument.
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This is an assumption about demand.
A belief about demand exists.
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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 is outside of with network television.
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The cover story profiles a day trader who learns his financial fundamentals from the Web and trusts his feel for stocks.
The self-taught day trader was the issue's cover story.
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I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.
The film did not need any financing to be produced.
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After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he endorsed strong gun control legislation, and as recently as last year he declared that AK-47s are inappropriate for private use.
Gun control lobbies were thrilled by the assassination of Robert Kennedy, for they understood the positive ramifications that the murder would have on public perception of personal firearms.
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Dexter and Jones are also seeking financing for their piace de resistance , the King Dream Center, a $50-million interactive museum complete with virtual-reality games.
Dexter and Jones can not finance their project on their own.
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The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd.
though they have nothing in common.
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Pundit Central, for one, is worried that peppy, likable Monica might try to take its job.
Pundit Central felt confidant and reassured that Monica lacked the desire to try and take its job.
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No one should be angrier about this than Stephen Labaton, Jeff Gerth, and Safire's other colleagues at the Times who have patiently pursued the Clinton scandals in a careful way.
Stephen Labaton is a writer.
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I am 18 years old and face a serious problem.
At 18 years of age, I am facing a serious drinking problem.
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