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A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence , the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly.
Albright is a citizen whom no one has ever heard of.
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Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions.
Addictions are easily overcome.
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Time describes honor killings in Jordan, which comprise a quarter of the Arab nation's homicides.
The honor killings in Jordan are based on religious beliefs.
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[Monica] made him feel good about himself.
She had no effect over him.
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And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated.
Some food will always be contaminated.
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No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.
Kundera will be awarded a Nobel Prize very soon.
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And it's not that they don't know any.
They knew about it by reading the local newspaper.
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So read Slate . A lot.
The speaker thinks Slate should be read frequently.
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By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him.
Ned Devine was found in the living room not breathing.
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Rubin's relief for Americans has encouraged a moral hazard--an inducement for people to speculate excessively because they know the United States will rescue them.
Rubin has caused a moral hazard.
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So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim.
The 1950 owners will not face any punishment.
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(She'd better get cracking.)
She is running out of time.
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If she fails to respond, he said, the House will have no choice but to call for the vice president's impeachment.
The House is ready to call for the vice president's impeachment
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When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest.
Berger is more concerned about his country's best interest.
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Every time he turns up on the scene--and even when (as in the case of Kathleen Willey) he doesn't--people What's he doing here?
Sometimes he shows up and sometimes he does not.
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The drive to find and eat food was integral to the survival of our early ancestors.
Our ancestors survived without food.
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Likewise, if the presidency is worth $50 million and there are many potential candidates with essentially identical chances of winning, they'll keep entering the race until they've collectively spent at least $50 million.
The presidency is worth 50 thousand dollars.
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Also, a stunning overhead photo depicts droves of worshipers at Mecca.
The picture shows people at an Islamic holy site
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For example, suppose that the U.S. stock market was to crash, threatening to undermine consumer confidence.
Consumer confidence and the stock market go hand in hand.
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Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa
Jane and Mary have been maneuvering for Owens' attention and cash for a long time.
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But even the Standard , it seems, has its limits.
The rule looks like it is limited.
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In last week's episode, Apu, the Indian convenience store owner, goes down to the docks to donate porno magazines to sailors.
Apu sold dirty magazines to the sailors.
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The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment.
Interpretive installations work to stifle understanding and disinform people.
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Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode.
Van Zandt is one of my most favorite actors of all time.
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I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).
I want a celebrity style wedding.
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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...
The kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women have minimal impact
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I can imagine a channel devoted to such productions.
The productions would be award-winning
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Overpaid athletes, teams that abandon their cities, and absurd ticket prices (average NHL $40.
The NHL has several factors that are unappealing to fans.
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Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society ( office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
He works his self up to actually getting a better job, solely on the recommendation of her supporting him.
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It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less.
The author is only interested in the national GDP
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The piece might be weightier if it addressed such issues.
The issues with the piece are a design feature and not a design flaw.
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But they didn't make that case, at least to me.
I'm not convinced the defendant is guilty of murder, the prosecutor did not make the case.
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Paste for Greenies
Paste is not for Greenies.
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The play is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind, says the New York Times ' Brantley.
A columnist was bribed to offer a negative critique of the play.
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It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art.
Tom DeLay's opinion of better art is unable to be speculated.
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We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup.
Jack Ludwig is in a position of authority at Gallup.
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Election 97 uses a new Virtual Reality Modeling Language technology to provide 3-D maps that give British voters a better understanding of how constituencies are spread throughout the country and where the critical districts lie.
The 3-D maps created by Virtual Reality Modeling Language technology is thought to be second rate.
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Tim has not only been invited to interview at several bulge-bracket firms, he has been warmly received, even by those he lampooned.
Tim was quite accomplished, highly regarded, and qualified for the job.
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It's very simple, really--$5 million isn't worth five times as much as $1 million.
Five million is a small number.
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If you know that the state lottery is likely to be rigged, you'll buy fewer tickets.
The lottery is fixed
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American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.
Christopher Benfey is Slate's top critic.
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This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries.
we have a high respect for national sovereignty of the foreign countries
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Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid
Kennedy's critics wanted to assail him for his '64 senate bid, and let him have it in spades.
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What we mean--and should mean--by character needs to be disentangled.
The character was built perfectly.
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The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story.
The Bradley campaign's spokesperson refuses to speak to fake news outlets
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However, we put no claim on the other, lesser characters.
The lesser characters are not spoken for.
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The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent.
Vikings were beggining to convert to Islam.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The decision was made on November 10.
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You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the dire...
The movie's storyline is extremely innovative
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Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey.
This film is a total flop.
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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.
Cracking down on compulsives is very expensive
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Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six.
The number equal to 3+3 is considered a perfect number by the ancient Greeks
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Police are said to be inept and corrupt.
Cops are the very picture of decency.
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Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails.
Drugs offer relief from many problems.
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On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips.
The table was decorated with flowers
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Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.
Quindlen's book was praised for its depth and detail.
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It's like campaign-finance reform--the people who control it are products of the system, says online voting evangelist Marc Strassman.
Marc Strassman is confident in the reform process
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He winked broadly, then gave her a wide, rakish smile that lit her soul with excitement.
The man and women were smitten with each other
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He would take notes on his yellow pad and sum up the sense of our meetings in an orderly manner, as he had always done.
He was always looked at as incompetent and others considered him a disposable member of the team.
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We must make do with the public domain.
Pre-1925 works are in the public domain
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The personal destruction spin is a big winner.
The personal destruction narrative is everyone's favorite.
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Truscott compares the intensive training you get in the Army with one of these weapons long before you're ever allowed to fire it, and then only under the supervision of an expert marksman, with the situation in states like Arkansas, where it's legal for a 10-year-old to own a semiautomatic assault weapon without a mom...
Without safety instruction, children shoot adults in states like Arkansas.
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After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.
Republicans are known for making an excellent education their top priority.
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Such coverage is good Your Live at Five NewsTeam covers Election '96!
This is the first time Five News Team has covered politics.
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COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns.
Cokie specifies handguns in order to distinguish them from all guns
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The final rooms feel like classrooms, with lessons hammered home.
All of the lessons are in the classroom only.
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Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists.
The other critics were having a good day.
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But the solution is not to give up on special prosecutors.
Give up on them
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Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Super Bowl XXXIV will be an amazing game.
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See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.
One should abstain from drinking even though it isn't entirely terrible.
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The Falcons, who have stunk perennially, are football's best Cinderella story in years.
The Falcons have had a good year.
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If so, it seems to have worked.
It appears that it worked.
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A spate of explicit parental responsibility laws passed by states and communities over the last couple of years give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention or undergo counseling with their kids.
Over the last couple of years, explicit parental responsibility laws passed by states and communities give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention.
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My wish is to make this marriage work because I love my wife, but I am feeling like second fiddle to a gang of girls.
He loves his wife and wants to make it work
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To address those issues the public--represented by the casual museum visitor--needed an understanding of the lives and practices of the gay community, so long hidden from view.
The public was represented by casual museum visitor.
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I can imagine a channel devoted to such productions.
I don't know what a channel is
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Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.
The Folk singer, praised by Motion, sings with wonderful tones and words, proves that you can't judge a book by it's cover,
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
He believes that others exist as he does.
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Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.
Every table at the restaurant is considered to be good.
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Indeed, Tripp pulls down more than all but a handful of the U.S. military's most senior officers.
Tripp will be satisfied with what she has done so far.
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There isn't much room in Schor's schema for even the interesting curlicues of spending culture, such as the joy in finding a bargain or personal variances in taste (e.g.
Schor pays a lot of attention to spending culture.
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The commander in chief has made a commitment on behalf of the United States, and the United States must honor that commitment.
The commander in chief is also the president
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The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney.
Disney hired a new head for their company.
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The New Yorker has a seven day window.
The New Yorker doesn't need the whole seven days
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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.
The author is confused about how freedom is effected by the market.
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Not as big a deal as the Pulitzers yet, but in the ballpark.
The Pulitzer prize is still the big deal in journalism.
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He's asking us to overlook it.
He is embarrassed by it.
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Defense So could we.
We want to do it.
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Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen.
Moyers was an aid to a Republican President.
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Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.
Despite the ferocity of the ragtag militia, they were overrun by the Germans.
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And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
Unskilled immigrants have flooded the labor force
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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 form of business model is required from the beginning to succeed.
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As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.
They do not beleive that she was sexually harassed.
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Do they have an open marriage in which his extracurricular activity is accepted, or is each new revelation a painful surprise to her?
They are in a monogomas relationship
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What's worse, Wolf flip-flops in her opinion of The Slut every few pages.
The Slut was evaluated in various ways by Wolf.
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George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold.
Custer had two left pinkies.
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Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.
Limbaugh stated that Clinton went to a McDonald's in Arkansas
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Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?
The person wonders if there is a common thread between Nike and ABC's campaigns.
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Although Davis has officially retired from the game, he's still mixing sense and nonsense for public consumption.
Billy has retired.
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I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy.
The joke is very well thought out.
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