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So we call impotence erectile dysfunction, baldness hypotrichosis, and so on.
scientific names are hard for people to remember.
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They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.
The US has no interest in him
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Dissenting in the New York Times Book Review , Pico Iyer finds Cuba Libre The central moral question raised ...
The New York Times writes it book reviews in crayon.
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Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games.
Team owners refused to pay anything related to the contruction of stadiums.
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His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.
He earned a small pittance at the time and eventually died in absolute poverty.
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As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.
Lobbyists are uninterested in marketing cases
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Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.
The War Powers Act limited war power to the President.
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The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.
The comparison to Nixon may have been overblown.
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Whatever the reasons for this deplorable twist in public morality, America's loss of its moral compass is a tragedy even more consequential than Bill Clinton's adultery.
Bill Clinton committed adultery, meanwhile America lost its moral compass
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Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.
My position doesn't involve and chance of costly mistakes or painful bickering.
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Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?
or perhaps it makes you even more unique?
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I remember.
The whole day is a blur to me
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We have some very tough laws against gun violence in Texas, and federal law with its mandatory sentences is tough as well.
An American state has tough laws against gun violence, and capital punishment is an option
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Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization.
Russia's plan for privatization was misguided.
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Also, the semiannual Home Design supplement insists that simplicity--incredibly expensive simplicity, that is--is chic.
Simplicity makes things more beautiful.
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It sketches out a pattern of Clinton aides attempting to convince multiple Clinton alleged paramours (Dolly Kyle Browning, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey) to keep silent.
Flowers was a paramour of Clinton before Lewinsky
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Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.
Radioactive waste from food irradiation and hospital sterilization will kill every living thing within the next year.
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You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)
HTML mail and Preview Pane is installed on all new computers.
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The rice was light and cooked to perfection, and the vegetables were nicely steamed in a complex sauce that blended the subtle flavors of curry, coconut milk, and basil.
The rice was light and the vegetables were nicely cooked.
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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.
The deadline for their exit should be within an hour
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You'll be able to cruise from article to review to column to department with a growing feeling that you're absolutely right about everything.
You'll feel like a loser, knowing nothing.
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She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement.
He was able to achieve peace without making any concessions.
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Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime.
Your idea seems right as rain, Why don't we chill out and hash it out?
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That fragmented system without oversight had its deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills).
Physicians made the prices increase.
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But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs.
The quality of American politics remains the same as before.
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He's just finished Isaac's Storm, a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and reads Robert Parker's detective-for-hire stories.
Isaac's Storm comes in paperback and hardcover.
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Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
Laibson is part of a larger group
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Similarly, Bush boasts that he's a uniter, not a divider, while the RLC complains that Forbes, by criticizing Dole in 1996, caused fighting within the Republican Party that was divisive and not inclusive.
No one believed Bush's boasts about being a uniter.
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The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost.
With little overhead, Internet sites make a bundle.
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He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.
He was totally faithful
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In the spirit of the ongoing pile-on on journalists, I have to argue that journalists are to blame for rock pomposity.
Journalists are amused by being blamed for rock pomposity.
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
There was a moral majority in the past.
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(Quayle--that tax-and-spend liberal--would set it at a whopping 19 percent.)
In the early 1990's, there were those that considered Quayle a tax and spend liberal.
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Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the word around town has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley B...
The Department of Justice is trying to be fair by probing into a former RNC chair.
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Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.
There was no drug policy in the United States.
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(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)
The magazine believes society as a whole will not collapse.
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If I write a new diagnosis in a patient's chart, I have to indicate what I plan to do about it.
I don't need to know how to treat anything, as long as I can diagnose it.
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Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.
Most people have compared Johnson's naivete to that of a third grader.
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Also, studies showed that, at the lower, pasteurization doses, radiation does not degrade nutrients.
Pasteurization doses of radiation degrade nutrients.
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In the publicity leading up to the release of Showgirls , Eszterhas gave interview after interview about the importance of the movie, of its deep moral message, its serious purpose.
Eszerthas is an actress in the move.
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Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.
Newsweeklies didnt celebrate any cities.
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Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs.
The president was up for re-election.
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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.
Leuchter isn't my concern
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They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.
Lobbyists and large doners have easier access to Senators
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Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large.
The assumption is the answers of one segment of the population can be applied to that group at large, if the sample size reaches at least 1000
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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 similar to Republican ideals.
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The report also cites China's transparent intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties when it assumes control of the territory in July.
China will take over Hong Kong
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(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)
Society may collapse one day.
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Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course.
There was no mention of Clinton's Whitewater troubles.
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A sidebar says Monica combed Gennifer Flowers' autobiography for tips on how to seduce the president.
The president knew Monica was going to try to seduce him.
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I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.
I was the one who created it
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It costs virtually the same amount to produce, no matter how many people use it, and no matter how heavy the use.
The more wear and tear it sees over time the more the initial production will cost.
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TV is the most important medium for conveying history.
After being invented, TV became the second-most important medium for conveying history
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PBS's Nova is offering lots of bang-'em-up footage in its two-part series , ESCAPE!
The TV show has poor, bottom of the barrel, footage that is grainy.
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Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent.
Inflation was at a twenty three year low and unemployment was at an all time high.
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I see a method to his madness.
The madness includes a method that can be seen.
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If Oprah's not safe, no one is.
If one of the wealthiest woman in America, Oprah Winfrey, cannot be kept safe, then no one can be kept safe.
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The Republican champion is Philip Morris, which gave $2,131,955.
Phillip Morris funneled as much money as they could to defeat Republicans.
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Journalists, after all, expose these practices--we do not commit them.
Journalists use sources in which gives them leads into their investigation.
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But filters aren't just for concerned parents.
Filters are useful for a wide variety of people.
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Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.
The plans were included in the prospectus.
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The development of Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 is long overdue, and I for one would like to offer my services as a volunteer beta tester.
The tester who offered his services thinks the previous version of Microsoft FashionSense was perfect
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The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).
Bush failed to warn Saddam about the use of weapons of mass destruction during the war.
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Romantics will warm to further Enquirer disclosures.
Enquirer disclosures are absent.
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It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
Even though the AIDS disease has grown to epidemic proportions, the author lauds Kinsey's motivations for studying its victims.
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Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters.
Instructions to promote the Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters were given.
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They seemed to enjoy it, and it was extremely helpful to us.
We were helped by them
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(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.)
Finding transcriptions of some CNN chats is impossible.
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The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.
Students from Yale were both male and female.
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That possibility has to do with the rapid-fire e-mail exchange format of Slate 's Book Club in which it appeared.
Emails took forever to be sent among the members.
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Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.
The pope will condemn Slobo.
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Doctor and refusing women their reproductive rights.
Rights of women are refused because there are those that don't want women to have any rights.
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But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together.
once the campaign took off the coalition had little issue sticking together
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There is an obvious opportunity here for a bonanza of international conferences to study the need for worldwide treaties to set up global commissions to come up with transnational standards for ...
The transnational standards are for climate change.
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We're having debates.
The author does not know if a debate is taking place.
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I hear you, she said by way of introduction.
She hears one.
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President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.
African American houses of worship were set on fire
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So, who's hungry?
No one has any question about hunger levels
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By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman.
Baldwins are focused solely on heir careers.
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Instead of engendering hope and optimism, they breed mistrust and cynicism.
Hope and optimism don't occur on their own.
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Today there are more than 300,000.
There are almost 500,000 today.
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But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
Lao-tzu was Chinese.
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I do not know what it means to say that the market form of organization itself disables a certain form of freedom.
Market forms of organizations increase freedoms.
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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
Lewinsky's image was permanently damaged
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Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
New York's Denby appreciates every scene.
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A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate.
The public is allowed to speak their minds in political theater.
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After-school prayer clubs skirt church-state separation laws and are popping up in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country.
The clubs have students who believe in God
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Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.
Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't doing enough to tackle race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.
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Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.
More than 40,000 students have received Pell Grant overpayments since 1989.
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The rest of the night was no better.
The night was difficult.
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And the occasional drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages.
Avoiding your wife will end your marriage.
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Half of them die within five years of diagnosis.
Within five years after diagnosis half of them will die
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On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome.
They had to learn to huble themselves as elites.
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Especially now, when any investor can obtain almost perfect diversification with index funds and index options--and thus get the exact return of the market as a whole.
The most important thing for investors is diversification
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Here's the way one investment industry correspondent--who prefers to be nameless--put it to me.
This anonymous financial guru gave me some wisdom.
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We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.
We will be back on the appropriations bills when 300 months worth of funds come up
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Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia.
Georgia will not receive rain this year.
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So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself.
The winner's curse is the perfect explanation of eBay's share prices.
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And whether or not all the right jobs are filled with exactly the right people, the United States still manages to negotiate with China and the United Nations, the civil rights division still manages to file cases, and judges still manage to impose sentences.
It's a blessing in disguise but even when the jobs of diplomats and other career civil servents aren't properly filled, things get done.
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Pennebaker made about Dylan's previous European tour in 1965, Eat the Document , which was edited by Dylan himself, is a pointless coda.
Dylan toured Europe
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