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Jenkins hasn't quite figured out how to shape her narrative, which is full of episodes that are there because they actually happened but that don't have a payoff.
Her narrative has a payoff
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So what if all the negatives are lost?
The undeveloped photo slides were inconsequential.
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Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.
People were embarrassed that he took advantage of the pastoral visit and changed it to benefit himself.
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Let me enlighten Almost every time I need to use the disabled stall (I am in a wheelchair), I have to wait for an AB to leave, and they all apologize meekly when they leave.
The author has difficulty using a bathroom not specifically intended for disabled people.
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And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon).
Clinton uses his massive support to his advantage for the next election.
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I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole.
A man was dressed like a character from a PSA
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At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed Punk, and that's what he is.
McCain's nickname was Shorty.
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Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them.
They only want to broadcast their message to a limited audience.
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( Slate 's Explainer examines the bill of attainder at greater length here.)
The US Constitution forbids bills of attainder
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But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air.
Moesha has shown a broad appeal to most demographics.
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Gigot thinks the tax fraud proceedings against Hubbell are legitimate and ordinary, while everyone else regards the indictments as trumped-up mini-crimes meant to squeeze Hubbell into giving Starr what he wants--cooperation.
Gigot is on the side of Starr.
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The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region.
America is the most peace loving country in the world.
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Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition.
Everyone noticed her condition.
contradiction
If that is the administration's strategy, it is foolhardy.
not everyone believes the strategy is foolhardy.
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The second punishment would be doubled--2,000 lost Windows sales would mean 2,000 lost Internet Explorer sales, not 1,000.
Windows comes with Internet Explorer which is why they are the same number.
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The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original.
There are six versions of the cookbook.
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The buck still stops with them.
Though they are more powerful than the minority, they are blameless.
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But it won't do this because of some ancestral memory in the genes.
It is made possible here by something, which is found in it's genes.
contradiction
There's nothing in Pecker that isn't done more brilliantly--and more subversively--every week on Mike Judge's inspired cartoon series King of the Hill .
Mike Judge's King of the Hill is a brilliant and subversive cartoon series.
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They would need to maintain complete silence about it.
It is a tough secret to keep.
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He's a freakish Peter Pan--the juvenile delinquent who wouldn't grow up.
He is a juvenile delinquent that refuses to grow up
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Even so, it is better to avoid the crash-causing exuberance than it is to try to keep a crash from triggering a depression.
An auto crash often triggers a depression.
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If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government.
The vetoe is without importance to the future of the government
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In a market of 10,000 stocks, short-term prices will rise and fall for an infinite variety of reasons, very few of which have anything to do with a company's real productivity or value.
Stocks are a highly volatile form of investment.
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A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.
There are ways to get around Congress
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First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.
Having both sides being angry is a short term solution.
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This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution.
She was not a good lawyer
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Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.
A majority of both parties came together to achieve victory over poker.
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Yet, we do cruel things to animals--smart animals, affectionate animals, cute animals--all the time.
smart, loving, good looking animals are often shielded from everything bad.
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He looks like he's still alive.
The author is looking at her
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But on all these, the basic principle is the same.
All of these laws are like peas in a pod
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(By contrast, Slate 's assessment relies entirely upon sources who are not identified by name.)
The sources could be anyone.
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A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.
The global-warming treaty is poorly written.
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The production of services also roughly doubled--but there was little productivity improvement, and employment grew by 90 percent.
The new hires are paid well
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
All modern cars are electric.
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While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.
He took photos of himself in the room to use for the holidays.
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More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial.
The concept of race is really not innate, it's made up.
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The general staff, for instance, has essentially forbidden Russia from talking to NATO.
NATO and Russia are in continuous talks.
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This brief period may have been the most fertile of his career.
This part of his career was the most fertile
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Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.
Dexter and Phillip Jones are in business together in which they sell Martin Luther King Jr. products.
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The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.
A general result is preferable to one that has specific requirements.
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Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments.
The ailments of the chest were left alone by Dr. Ornish, who avoided difficult subjects.
contradiction
Need a good book store with a series of author appearances, maybe starting with Susan Faludi?
Authors show up at crack houses
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Now the practice has its own a triple--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.
She was able to get her child back.
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And, oh, to know what a frolic is!
He has an idea what a Frolic is, but isn't sure.
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Is all of The Limey a temporal hiccup?
the author is confused
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Entire conferences and whole scholarly volumes have been devoted to this catechism, with roughly the same results.
Generations of scholars argued about this catechism with fairly consistent results.
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One thing that is clear is that the West--the IMF, the Western governments who provided the funds for the last, doomed rescue package--have come out looking like chumps.
A rescue package large enough to actually work was never feasible.
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But Wellstone favors Kosovo intervention to stop the Holocaust-like atrocities occurring there.
Kosovo is unable to resolve the conflict on its own.
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The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.
The Pentagon's investigation was jointly reported by The Washington Post and Gerth.
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They even agree that this would be a big mistake.
They firmly believed that it was the correct decision to make.
contradiction
In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?
"Reds in the White House?" is the title of a movie about baseball.
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And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it?
Nobody was on the balcony
contradiction
We know that Sullivan believes in him (her?
We are certain that he/she is believed by Sullivan.
contradiction
After all, it's only a movie.
After all, It's just a book.
contradiction
To track all of this month's four-star movies, check out the TV-Now website Four Star Movies February TV Schedule.
To find December's best movies look up Four Star Movies February TV Schedule.
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Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little.
Parents complaining about the glorification of drug use in teen films is what led to the change
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One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges ...
Lewinsky will not be charged.
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Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.
Lehman went on to lose.
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Later, McLaughlin refers to Saddam's Republican Guard as the Red Guard.
The Red Guard is unpopular.
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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.
Time to watch TV is more important than visiting the shore.
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White describes his wife Katherine, who, very sick in the fall of the last year of her life, goes out into the garden, as she has done every year before, to plant the spring bulbs she knew she would never live to see rise.
Katherine was seriously ill
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And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched f...
Attempting to understand female lust is analogous to exploring a forest
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Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs.
Everything said about HMOs is completely true and should be seen as fact.
contradiction
It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.
NBA squads contain young players that are considered hotheads.
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Granted, there exists, in the form of a rich language and history, what Huntington would call a core Sinic civilization.
Sinic is a dominant culture
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The distinction between a maid or matron of honor and bridesmaids is usually a different bouquet and walking down the aisle first.
Its an honor for a matron to be selected.
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Shareholder value, which is shorthand for executives' obsession with their companies' stock prices, has become the prism through which most of corporate America now sees business.
Most of corporate America determines its path by the value it gives to shareholders.
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Fred Thompson (who will chair the investigation), and campaign reform.
Campaign reform is an important issue for Fred Thompson.
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People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.
Some people were chuckling.
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Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures.
Wild creatures are not as cute and friendly as they seem.
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There is lots of truth to that view.
The view is not one hundred percent correct.
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Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor was an historical event.
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Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so.
Shuman is a prominent researcher in the field of computational dynamics.
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But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated.
Japanese manufacturing practices were overvalued
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It is impressive that such a warm and amiable fellow--and he was--could be so profoundly wrong at least twice.
He was a friendly man.
entailment
Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.
This is about the balanced budget.
entailment
In theory, for-profits are equipped to do it through greater efficiency--economies of scale, easier closure of failing operations, and better access to capital.
For-profits can more easily do it due to greater efficiency.
entailment
On democracy, for example, American activists are raging over China's recent suppression of all democratic dissent.
China's strong central government was able to suppress democratic dissent recently.
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How does one tell foresight from fear?
Seeing potential problems lead looks like fear
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Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?
That would certainly make you less of a person.
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Is that wrong?
The author never asks, aloud or in the depths of their own mind, whether they are incorrect.
contradiction
The high-end beers cost roughly three times as much as the cheapest ones, and twice as much as the middle range.
Every brand of beer costs about the same price.
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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 only wants to advertise to a small percentage of the population.
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Renaissance Florence.
Florence is where the renaissance came to be.
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www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ...
You are able to click on No-Frames on www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/.
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When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there.
Malls are becoming less likely of a place to make purchases.
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That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.
The children broke the tea pot.
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The first is that CBS's spiking of the interview turned Wigand into an even bigger story than he would have been otherwise.
Wigand was at the center of a big news story
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But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite.
Lemann wrote about the educated elite.
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Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.
Gramm believes in small government generally until it suits him.
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Based on a review of the trajectory charts in The Physics of Baseball and Keep Your Eye on the The Science and Folklore of Baseball , conversations with University of Puget Sound physicist Andrew Rex, and correspondence with aerospace engineer and baseball researcher Roger Hawks, I determined that the McGwire home run...
Other baseball athletes will be studied for the skills they use in baseball and how it relates to Physics.
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What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?
Chemical and biological weapons are different.
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Now he believes he can be president.
He is an ambitious person.
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But they would get farther in their agendas if they would give a little respect to conventional marriage by letting heterosexual people keep the word marriage to themselves.
They have given opinions on conventional marriage.
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An initiative on the November ballot asks voters to approve slot machines and video poker, proceeds of which will be used to build esteem among the native peoples.
An initiative on the November ballot asks voters to approve slot machines in restaurants.
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That goddamned hamster dance.
The hamster dance originated in Japan.
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Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation.
Recommendations have led to inflation.
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If I had not been born, both my sisters would have substantially bigger shares of the pie, and everybody else's share would be exactly what it is now.
The individual who has two sisters caused them to have smaller shares of the pie
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They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.
$750 million was spent by one account in one year on litigation.
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