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Josh Pons did not like this.
Josh Pons wrote that he did not like this.
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They concluded it was caused by the driver's loss of control.
The conclusion is the driver lost control.
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It runs several new pictures of Lewinsky, including two that are embarrassingly revealing.
The New York Times shows images of Lewinsky on it's front page.
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Not all the time-wasters in the Pentagon are civilians.
Women waste time in the Pentagon
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Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.
The snoop successfully found out personal information.
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The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.
Takeover mania of the 1980s was positive overall.
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The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.
The animals that talk and the discombobulated cityscapes are wonderful.
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But it was Schultz who drew the outrage of the Old Seattle types, who sued him.
Schultz was loved by the Old Seattle types.
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That's what the Globe had to do last week for actress Bo Derek and her director husband, John.
Bo Derek has been married for many years.
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Thank you for William Saletan's brilliant analysis () of the war.
Saletan is respected for his expertise on war.
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Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work.
Chatterbox, which analyzes psychology, is wrong more often than not.
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Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.
Killing two birds with one stone, they took advantage of a lull in the meeting to buy FACS at a local book shop.
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The greatest events and achievements of the past 1,000 years are reviewed, including the miraculous growth of prosperity since 1750, the persistence of the city, the emancipation of women, the rise of the law, and the invention of limited liability (the key to the rise of equity corporations).
Society has been on a decline over the past few centuries as we make "advances" in different ways.
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And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.
A lack of influence is an asset in politics
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In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.
A liberal program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else.
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And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time.
Alterations can be made without experimentation.
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The Washington Post reported that for $5,000, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is offering donors a chance to give Trent Lott and other senators advice at a forum next month.
According to the Washington Post, senators are refusing to hear from donors, regardless of how much money is offered
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And if he gets this balancing act wrong, he must pander even more furiously to make it up.
His equilibrium feat can become unstable without consequence.
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The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law.
Federal law has always protected children's privacy.
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If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig.
If you consume the whole crustacean, you'll draw attention to yourself.
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There is only one airline the Shopping Avenger believes understands the fundamentals of customer service, and that is Southwest Airlines.
Southwest Airlines's customer service is nonexistent.
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Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ...
Time has interviewed Willey's friends but not Willey.
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Perhaps the uncritical reportage of Fitzsimmons' new story can be explained by pangs of guilt about the uncritical reportage of his old one.
Stories of Fitzsimmon have been described as critical.
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This brief period may have been the most fertile of his career.
his career blossomed into record breaking levels just months later
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What's to gain?
Nothing can be gained from any situation.
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The sales pitch designed to support workers will also protect shirkers.
Those who don't do their fair share of work will still be protected by this sales pitch.
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Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.
He has high self-esteem
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And in that case, the white candidate at 99 th place today wouldn't get in anyway.
To add insult to injury, if this action is adopted, White Candidates wouldn't stand a fair chance of being selected first.
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A 1990 study found that 28 percent of children diagnosed with the disorder didn't actually meet the definition.
72 percent of children in the study met the definition of the disorder.
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Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.
Milosevic is the reason Yugoslovia is no longer a country.
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Loral denies that its report to the Chinese divulged sensitive information about rocket guidance systems, as a Defense Department report claims.
Loral submitted a report to the Chinese.
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Newsweek 's ninth health cover of the year warns that E. coli food contamination is more common than is reported and won't be eradicated with simple beef recalls like the one at Hudson Foods.
Newsweek writes regularly about health issues.
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Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social welfare.
Personal safety has low value
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Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court.
It is perfectly legal to conspire
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Presidents derived their license to serve as leader-preacher from Theodore Roosevelt's remark that the presidency was a bully pulpit, a remark that did not appear in his Inaugural Address.
Theodore Roosevelt' was the first president to give a speach
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Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.
Sports pundits likened him to Jack Nicklaus and Michael Jordan.
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That's 2 percent of the $100 billion total spent on ads in all media.
Less than a quarter million was spent on ads.
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Now on a Tripod home page, the site itself claims to have been hit only 1,110 times since December 1998.
Tripod is not a very popular site.
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aside for the kids' education and--BOP--I have so much trouble with that the
BOP is an acronym.
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Bush was asked no questions about education and only one about welfare.
Bush was only asked on question about welfare.
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Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship.
Christopher Hitchens never drinks
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The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons.
Tom Jones has multiple sons.
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He's almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
He was rarely portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
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As the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies the century, says Time .
Time wrote an article about the century's greatest thinker.
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And can anybody remember Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis-playing physician?
Renee Richards is a known cis-gender person.
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I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
Both of the co-authors are practicing lawyers
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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).
He has worked for Slate for 5 years
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Priest and director, St. Athanasius the Great International English School
The Great International English School has a clergyman
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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 says Starr's case is surprisingly strong.
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The Majic Bus brought Brinkley minor fame.
Brinkley fell in obscurity as a result of The Majic Bus.
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I also think it is commendable that his articles, although unfavorable to Microsoft in the main, are being hosted on a Microsoft-owned site.
He wrote articles that were mainly unfavorable towards Microsoft.
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So, who's hungry?
It is unclear who desires food
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As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.
Bradley is Gore's opponent.
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In 1982, Ronald Reagan invoked this right to keep EPA documents about toxic-waste disposal from Congress.
Ronald Reagan was open to Congress about everything that had to do with the environment.
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The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.
Non of the commentators that attended where smokers.
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I have a Pavlovian reaction to the pre-title black-white-and-red bit with Monty Norman's theme and the gun site roving over the latest 007 as he saunters to the center of the frame--I go, Kill 'em, Bond!
I'm engulfed with anticipation at the beginning of a Bond film.
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Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities.
Slate 60 has special interests in wealthy universities.
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First, we don't know that Maxwell would have found another Without Joan, he might have struck out that night.
Joan was only a hidrance
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Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times.
Prudie has dealt with a lot.
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Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.
The T-shirt is ugly.
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John F. Kennedy repeated it 16 times in his Inaugural Address, and Richard Nixon has it 22 times in his second one.
John F. Kennedy repeated it 22 times
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Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies.
There was no dispute over the election
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Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
The author is giving up on his relationship
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I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.
I’ve never used it
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Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times that the play manages to entertain even at its darkest and preachiest.
The play was considered to be an abject failure, according to the New York Times, a nationally-distributed publication.
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In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.
The creators of children's entertainment are more increasingly identifying as homosexual.
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This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.
The controversial practice was popular in the 19th century.
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While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor.
Charlie's Angels made a lot of money.
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Alas, all he writes about, all he thinks about, all he wants to do, is give in to fat.
He is trying to avoid fat.
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Before NATO began bombing Yugoslavia March 24, the proposed Rambouillet solution--restoring Kosovo's autonomy but not granting it independence--seemed like a plausible outcome.
March 24 was a day not forgotten as NATO bombed Yugoslavia.
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Well, not behind it per se.
Not completely in favor of it.
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Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani.
Hilary did her best to help out Giuliani.
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It depends on how you score it.
Your input has nothing to do with the scenario.
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Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change.
Monica Lewinsky is proud of her past.
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When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer.
She is the computer
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The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other.
He has the capacity to endure in spite of the assault by the media.
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We look around our own solar system, and what appears to be common are planets that have no life whatsoever.
Planets that have no life whatsoever are common in our solar system.
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If Clinton were going to apologize, Lewinsky's new image would be safe.
Lewinsky and Clinton Have yet to cross paths.
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I just wanted to thank you for allowing Mark Alan Stamaty a forum for his hilarious--and often insightful--cartoon about a (slightly) warped world.
The cartoon is serious and shallow.
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Twenty-five years ago, Pennsylvania pinball machines displayed this for entertainment purposes only.
Pinball machines could be used for gambling.
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Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy.
Martin could have caused a pleasant emotion for an hour
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We must make do with the public domain.
We have limited resources other than the public domain
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You've got to get Tripp to give him the go-ahead.
Despite getting the notice, I forgot to tell Tripp that he needed to give the other person the go-ahead.
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Giuliani is clearly wrong in trying to stop the exhibit, but how many people defending the museum right now would be trying to shut it down if the art was offensive in other, even less acceptable, ways?
The museums defenders would support any exhibit.
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The herbal extract shows success in treating mild dementia and preventing Alzheimer's memory loss.
Success in preventing Alzheimer's memory loss has been seen in using the herbal extract.
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The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...
The experts were wrong
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Religious people are finding evidence of God in recent scientific discoveries.
Science and Religion are not always opposed.
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Weird Ted receives The New Yorker , New York Review of Books , and Los Angeles Times in prison and spends his rare recreation time with fellow bombers Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef.
Weird Ted was prevented from seeing Yousef and McVeigh, so he had to save his money to bribe a guard for visitation rights.
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The WSJ has these Monica 1) Vernon Jordan isn't part of the joint defense agreement entered into by many other grand-jury witnesses with White House ties.
Vernon Jordan has signed the joint defense agreement
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He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.
He identified a number of highly technical problems with the experiment.
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It keeps doing that.
It never does that.
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She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.
Fuel-cell engines are filthy, polluting machines that spew toxic residue into the atmosphere.
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Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue.
Clinton is a demagogue.
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But it's a heckuva lot more arduous to conduct, in effect, a nationally televised cross-examination than to spend night after night droning, So Ms.
Televising nationally is arduous.
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But Royko also challenged white Chicago's prejudices, skewering bigots who tried to keep a white couple that had adopted a black baby out of their neighborhood or a funeral parlor that didn't want to bury a black soldier killed in Vietnam.
A black baby adopted a white couple out of their neighborhood funeral parlor.
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The art historian Linda Nochlin has traced what she calls Degas' perfectly ordinary anti-Semitism to status anxiety.
Linda Nochlin is an art historian.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
There are 2 pencils present.
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He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
After hearing the soliloquies, he felt that they sounded like an introvert's meditations
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Twenty-four terms is enough for anyone.
24 terms is enough.
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This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.
Gay parents will have a trickier time here compared to Heterosexual parents.
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