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Some legal scholars, such as Robert Bork, claim these search powers are unconstitutionally broad.
Bork feels that almost any search could be legal.
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
There are no Israeli citizens living in Russia or Russian citizens living in Israel.
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My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.
My concern here is for Leuchter
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There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.
Women who responded mentioned erotic themes today.
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Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
Sea life and the oceans are harmed by fertilizer runoff.
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(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never.
Everyone is ok with extreme violence in media.
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According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.
Sonny perished while piloting a small fixed wing plane.
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I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.
What I need is a hospital stay, otherwise I'll die.
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A writer recounts his experience as a phone psychic.
He was once assaulted by a phone psychic.
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But what does it mean?
There’s questions about what it means
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No wonder many hate it in France, especially for schoolgirls, who are meant to mix with others on an equal footing in all respects; and in determinedly modernized Turkey, too.
Shoolgirls lead happier lives in France than most places.
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In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers.
The stock market booms because of steady achievements and global events.
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Disney's Tarzan is not only post-imperial, post-racist, and post-classist but also post-masculine.
Tarzan is post-imperial.
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But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against?
It is uncertain how the two applicants would be ranked if slavery had not happened
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He sat next to Johnny Carson and in his helium-pitched foreign man voice told jokes without punch lines (Her cooking ees so bad--ees terrible) and did non-impressionistic impressions
Johnny Carson's told jokes in his helium-pitched voice.
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Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).
Wearing the futuristic designs attracts unwanted attention from other people.
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As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells.
Harkin was pleased by the way the biotech companies dealt with human stem cells
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Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement.
The police officer was eventually charged with terrorism.
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It's interesting to note that of the 21 pundits who held forth on tobacco legislation this weekend, only Jack Germond professes to currently being a smoker.
Half of the pundits professed to being smokers during the weekend.
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No way he'd be with her if this wasn't an instructional sex video!
The couple is involved in making a sex video and didn't know each other before hand.
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Such expressions might subtly shift market psychology and begin the gradual deflation.
deflation is umpossible
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In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.
Nathan Lane has always worked for a construction crew in Dallas.
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The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.
The Great Famine occurred in the 1970's
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The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.
Most people think The Conpany Man still exists.
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But even then, the Thernstroms equivocate.
The Thernstroms still equivocated.
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Unless the name of your house is Ritz-Carlton, bag the subtle approach, and give them a deadline for their departure.
They need a deadline for their exit
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These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.
Kenneth Starr believe that these notes were essential to the case that he was prosecuting.
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The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.
There is a lot of diversity at Yale University.
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Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in.
Let's get Milosevic to send his troops into battle
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Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out.
A professor always gives out A's to students who deserve it.
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And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.
Avoid being read
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Affirmative action is likely to fail when it is merely a special preference bestowed upon those who have the right parents, whether right means educational pedigree or skin color.
Affirmative Action will likely fail if preferences are based on the right parents.
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Most agree that he's a Clinton-style weather vane, adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.
He is a Senator.
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Teacher of the Year Andrew Baumgartner is the kind of educator who has delighted his kindergarten students with a wedding for Sleeping Beauty, complete with limousine and cake, teaching them, I suppose, that nothing is worthwhile unless it is entertaining.
Andrew Baumgartner hosted a wedding for Snow White.
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Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it.
The courts decided what to do about the scheme.
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I remember the epigraph of James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan , which I read more than 60 years
James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan was just released last month.
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On Wednesday , NBC sinks to new lows with The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?
NBC is not broadcasting "The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?" on Wednesday.
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He was tall, charismatic, with piercing blue eyes that made Monica weak inside--and, best of all, he was the most powerful man on Earth!
Monica was struck by love at first sight.
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No wonder many hate it in France, especially for schoolgirls, who are meant to mix with others on an equal footing in all respects; and in determinedly modernized Turkey, too.
Turkey emulates France's culture which is why they are alike.
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The final rooms feel like classrooms, with lessons hammered home.
Lessons are hammered home.
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As a result, they avoid the concussive head wounds that kill boxers--and the long-term neurological damage that cripples them.
Over 100 boxers have died from wounds to the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain
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It'll be a good thing for all of us if she finally gets into the habit of speaking for herself.
She is reading a self-help book to become more assertive
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On the radio, they are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit.
They are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit on the radio.
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I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.
I rejected the idea of involving them in incarceration facility fellowships
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Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
Fake money spends as well as real money.
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They cut taxes, they helped balance the budget, and they're putting people on welfare back to work.
They were able to balance the budget because they put people on welfare back to work.
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Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.
Kindleberger is risk averse when it comes to financial matters.
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After the injection they--honestly--seem rather depressed.
The needle was filled with something lethal.
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Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, I'm a human being!
The woman was shackled and held because she was a slave, she was bound and determined to escape.
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The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).
The network that filmed Universoul Circus is HBO
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Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.
Bauer believed Bush was sufficiently conservative
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Prior to its alliance with the government, the PDFA merely hogged the drug debate.
The alliance between the PDFA and the government is on shaky ground.
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In the beginning there was a great tortoisewho supported the world.
The world was supported by a tortoise once.
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Microsoft's position is a reflection of an economic phenomenon often referred to as network externalities (a k a positive economic feedback or increasing returns to scale).
A company that produces an operating system makes a whole lot of money.
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She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement.
She could not trust him to win peace.
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If it hits, there's a big syndication upside.
If it hits, expect a big syndication upside.
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Strong genetic differences among dog breeds are not just the result of natural selection.
Genetic differences among dogs are exclusively due to natural selection.
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On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)
The company is secluded and refuses any postgraduates.
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Even his admirers admit he's dour and humorless.
His admirers love his sense of humor
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Idon't generally complain about oppressive patriarchal social structures, but Ferberism is a good example of one.
Ferberism is an oppressive patriarchal social structure.
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Best of category is a tough one here.
The choice for best of category comes down to either Sneed or Chuck
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It works by releasing hydrogen peroxide to break up or remove the color from organic materials but is gentle enough that it won't affect most fabric dyes.
It uses bleach to remove color
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The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of your child was killed in a car crash (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.
Parents don't want to know if their teenagers are having sex.
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Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids.
Kids were cited as the reason for the FDA effort.
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The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.
The outcome of the strike was helped along by the decision.
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(Actually, some of the bombs were pretty good movies, like Wolf and Remains of the Day, while others, like the much-maligned Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger, were failures in an interesting way.)
Everyone disliked Wolf
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Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.
It can also be modified to Canadian.
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I did not plagiarize.
The writing is my own.
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Moreover, tough, mean men enjoy high social status, which attracts women and helps the men get genes into the next generation.
Women like tough girls
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NAAG meets four times a year so its various committees can hash out ideas for litigation, like the billing fraud case now being developed against the hospital chains.
NAAG is made up of multiple committees
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An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.
The projected budget surpluses were doomed to fail.
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We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum).
The jury already returned a hung status.
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They may want to consult an astrophysicist as well as a plastic surgeon.
The astrophysicist was probably more valuable to them than the plastic surgeon, because their knowledge of stellar phenomena was vital to the core mission.
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Once again, a plea to Susan and Sylvester.
Susan got a plea, but Sylvester didn't.
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The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends.
The movie was a pleasant surprise and launched the career of the lead actress into stardom.
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During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations.
Congress remained seated the entire time during Clinton's State of the Union address.
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At least it gives the film a surprise ending.
The production quality at the beginning of this film leaves much to be desired, the ending barely makes up for it.
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I was about to say that studies showed no connection.
The studies had a lot in common.
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Exempted from Novak's observation might be executives at Reebok, who last year professed to have been unaware of connotations associated with the name they gave to a new women's running Incubus.
Reebok intentionally gave the she a provocative name.
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The verdict?
The verdict is known
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A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.
The Independent Gay forum is based in the United States.
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Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older.
In growing older, personal values change.
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La Repubblica of Rome reported Wednesday that the singer Michael Jackson has been fined 4 million lire (around $2,200) for plagiarism.
Michael Jackson owed 1 million lire for copying music.
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Today's Papers is sorry that the Journal wasn't curious enough to find out the average age of those CEOs.
the Journal suceeded in learing the ages of the CEOs
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This may be justified or not--we like him well enough around here!
He is the opposite of favored.
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I love the Native Americans.
The Native Americans are not loved.
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The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics.
A new movie and play about Wilde delights critics, especially in New York
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He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump.
He is a lively man
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I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.)
The author says polluting the planet is ethically acceptable
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John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig.
John Glenn was not an astronaut.
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They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.
My entree into the world of journalism was denied.
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Deciding he'd like to make an eccentric regional comedy with universal themes, he journeyed to a village in Ireland, set himself up in the pub, and took notes on what he saw and heard.
He set himself up in a pub in England so that he could take notes on the things that he saw.
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Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.
He has struggled with his opinion of himself
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Maybe we shouldn't save every premature baby regardless of the cost.
Premature babies are extremely expensive.
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If you missed the link about the really big marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit, click .
The earned income tax credit affects married couples.
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One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
One profession is always deceptive while one is filled with cowardice.
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The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.
Jess Gupta is an over 18 scholar.
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There will be enough for everybody!
Stocks are limited.
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In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.
in the 70s he could be counted on for a detailed review of how the people were spending their money
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Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits.
Workaholic Republicans are against imposing term limits.
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