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Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.
The British film Udayan Prasad directed was good.
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As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.
My neighbor wanted to sell more uniforms than I did.
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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.
There are no concerns about the future
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In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.
Doctors are taught to blindly follow policy in medical school.
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As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.
Memory of the Shoah serves two purposes.
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All of these measures together will not cause the ghettos to disappear.
The ghettos will not disappear by the known measures together.
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Even this was Lentauw and Yamasami, Zulu tribesmen, entered the marathon because they happened to be in St. Louis as part of an exhibit about the Boer war.
They entered the marathon because they happened to be in St. Louis and one of them ended up winning.
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But these targets still seem far out of reach.
The range has a lot of bullseyes are varying distances.
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Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.
Children that are placed in abject conditions can be permanently damaged.
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The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
A lot of unimportant information was collected.
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There are lots of enormous rocks, anyway, which in my experience tends to mean lots of enormous snakes.
There were a lot of enormous snakes.
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Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism.
Indulging in grievances causes terrorism.
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Makes you want to watch Sunday's game just to see how it turns out.
Sunday's game will be re-aired on Monday night.
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What's wrong with informing certain segments of the electorate that your opponent is using the feel-good rhetoric of solutions to pull a fast one at their expense?
feel-good rhetoric has the potential to mislead certain segments of the electorate
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(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.)
The person does not currently own a fax machine
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An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification.
The Chinese editor was a female.
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Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.
Clinton's Health plan was not universally liked
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I'll say it Read the directions.
The directions tell you what to do next.
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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 is still admired
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Later, I thought the subject required more analysis.
I decided I needed to spend a week or two researching and studying.
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Democrats think they're immune to this attack because they've got both ends of the spectrum On the removal question, the polls are on Clinton's side, and on the moral question, on which the polls are against Clinton, Democrats have acknowledged and condemned his misconduct.
Poll on the removal question favor Clinton
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I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.
Many of the students are underprivileged
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In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.
Larry tried to save her
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Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions.
SlateCast TM requires you to develop and express your own opinions.
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A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January.
The musical is receiving rave reviews from critics.
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So all the money from the sales of the manufacturing operations, $3 billion, is going to a share buyback program, which is to say that instead of being used to create new wealth, it will simply be redistributed from the company to investors.
There is a long list of sales contributing to thebuyback program.
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And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on.
It is contradictory to believe that all human life must be considered sacred
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The cover story , rehashing last week's discovery that smart mice can be genetically engineered, predicts that the bioengineering of human intelligence will soon be possible.
At least one animal can be genetically engineered
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Bottomless Mug
The Bottomless Mug has a bottom.
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The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership.
The Washington Post does not report on politics
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The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0.
The team from Norway was not the defending champion.
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You are right that there was no obvious winner in your wager--not you, your friend, or even, alas, the president.
There was a clear winner.
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He telegraphs the ending--you know the Limey will somehow be at the root of his daughter's death--but it's still an emotional wow.
The Limey caused the death of his daughter
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There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago.
Corgan is pretentious.
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But Spielberg doesn't have to catch them all.
Spielberg needs to catch them all.
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Her recognition of the grave personal injustice done by the left to Clarence Thomas is especially appreciated.
She ignored the injustice to Clarence Thomas and pretended it didn't happen.
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Pepper and Blanco have conferred with Bush campaign officials in Austin twice since mid-August to discuss their ideas, according to sources on the campaign.
Pepper and Blanco are instrumental in the fate of the campaign.
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
There are zero instances of sexual harassment among Republicans.
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You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.
Black studies has a status.
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If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig.
Tasting lobster is very expensive in this eatery.
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
The delivery will be here tomorrow.
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Asahi Shimbun also reported that the Japanese National Personnel Authority is drawing up regulations to try to stamp out sexual harassment based on a new report defining what kind of behavior is inappropriate.
Asahi Shimbun is Japanese.
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But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.
This meeting will be surprising.
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SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago.
Sports TV is not involved in betting in any way, shape, or form.
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1 is the easy-to-forget point that money shouldn't be able to buy influence with a democratic government.
Money shouldn't be able to influence the government
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We're talking about president of the United States.
The president of the United States was the topic of discussion.
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
Spark is just like everyone else.
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As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed.
Monet was the first Impressionist painter to die.
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Few bounty hunter training programs exist--the most frequently attended programs are 20-hour courses that cover only basic legal constraints.
Bounty Hunter training programs are hard to come by
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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.
The national Legislature, nor your local branch has no possible way to control financial institutions now that the cat is out of the bag.
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Microsoft is reaching out to computer novices , says a piece.
A piece claims that Microsoft is refusing to sell computers to non-hackers.
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As we bow gratefully to this wonderful final year of the first century of film, let us hope it is not one of the final years of celluloid itself.
This is the last year of the first century of film
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Preferential treatment for big donors is nothing new.
Those who make large contributions are responsible for more than 50% of the whole.
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How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.
The Republican answer is better.
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He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years.
He has been unpredictable and original for at least 20 years.
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But somehow you expect that from Republicans, whereas you don't expect it from big-name national Democrats, especially Northerners like George Mitchell.
George Mitchell is a Republican.
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In response to one of the proposed symptoms, Spitzer's wife protested, I do that sometimes, and Spitzer responded, OK, take it out.
Spitzer and his wife had been married for over 20 years
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What's different about the late 1990s' version?
the early and late version are identical
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The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son.
Monica wants a daughter of her own.
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The retreat of that deck is a century-long process, but it can be stemmed.
The deck that is in retreat can be stemmed
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Rolling Stone 's cover story traces Stern's history from mediocre rock DJ to king of shock jocks.
Stern's experience is a DJ can be found in the pages of Rolling Stone.
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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...
The emails sent by 24/Seven are valuable sources of information for their readership.
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This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.
This section relies on on-the-record conversations
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The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps.
A populist panders to his audience, whereas a dictator would be similar to a tyrant and ignore the audience.
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White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters.
Sidney Blumenthal hid President Clinton's opinion of Monica Lewinsky from reporters.
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Kenny needs to come back home to Texas.
It is important that Kenny comes back home to Dallas.
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Other IOC members have resigned or are still being investigated.
None of the IOC members have resigned or are still being investigated.
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It probably won't come naturally to an American male, but, in an attempt to enter into the spirit of French daily life, I will cultivate a Look of my own.
wouldn't likely come easy for an American female either
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The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy.
The cover package had nothing to do with politics.
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They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences.
Washington has influence over the economy
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This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.
Parents who are more open or liberal might have more difficulty here compared to parents with a more conservative background.
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According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.
The instructions were clear.
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And this means that capital is not playing its necessary disciplining role.
It is necessary for capital to play a disciplining role.
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In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1.
American Re is profitable now than it was when it was sold.
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She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ...
She chose to live in Mumbai.
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Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?
The film's setting is that of a metropolis.
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She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans.
She doesn't care about increased healthcare costs.
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The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983.
Some big brands have succeeded despite poor leadership.
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Markets get caught in self-perpetuating cycles of undue optimism and hysterical panic.
Mingled with jeers and cheers for their competitors.
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It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.
They are considering shooting a woman.
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It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.
He is thinking about the correct things
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(The predictable lesson--justice isn't cut and dry--clogs the film's gears, says the Washington Post 's Eric Brace.)
Brace was surprised by the films lesson.
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Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.
Demand-side thinking has been dwindling for years.
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(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)
Campbell's and Gillette control a significant percentage of their respective markets.
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The reason to see Man on the Moon is Jim Carrey.
Mr. Carrey acted in Man on the Moon.
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The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed.
The media was not in agreement about investigating Bush's past.
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Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side.
Dogs roam far away from their homes
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Though this version of libertarianism seems to flirt with anarchism, Boaz isn't worried about disarray.
Boaz is worried about disarray.
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At the hang gliding site, click Links ...
hang gliding is dangerous.
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But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero.
Vampires become strong and powerful when combating heros in the movies.
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But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.
I tried hard to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.
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When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.
Eros is a very famous fashion designer based in Kazakhstan.
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Perhaps Internet users are more depressed because they are better informed.
Internet users are better informed.
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The New York Times list is the industry standard.
The Washington Post is considered second-best
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In an interview, Gates reiterates the Microsoft line, We need to keep innovating to stay alive.
Gates was a useless CEO for MIcrosoft.
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The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal?
Mom really would like some flowers on Mother's Day.
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Reply All, our experimental novel-by-e-mail written by three anonymous authors in three different cities, moves outside the subscription wall for a while, beginning today.
Beginning today, the novel will move out of a subscription service.
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The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.
The article was written by the New York Times.
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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.
Boris Shub was an only child.
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Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.
Tudjman and Mussolini are like 2 peas in a pod, each setting things up to hold to fascist power.
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