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These pronouncements on subjective issues annoy me no end.
I've never been as annoyed with anything as much as these declarations.
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But even the Standard , it seems, has its limits.
The standard is a national rule with constraints.
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Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination.
The Full Monty didn't receive an Oscar nomination.
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She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.
She speaks for Culturebox
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One Because they're cyber sages.
Cybers sages are a disbelief.
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The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon.
Tim LaHaye writes political books about conservatism.
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Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.
Henry Gonzalez was never a Democrat.
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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 has a large black audience
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Hardly the act of a speculator in a casino.
There was nothing special about the act.
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Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre).
The Brooks Atkinson Theater performed Wait Until Dark.
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But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.
Will is a great all around journalist.
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The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be.
The society would be amazing.
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I think he perceives our friendship as being stronger than it is.
They are not as close as they used to be.
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Outlook SWAT teams swooped down daily to reduce the size of our code.
The SWAT teams work on the code rarely, if ever.
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So there is no way yet to know for sure who wins and loses.
The winner is already known.
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More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it.
Society treats a diagnosis as a crime.
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And Pooh belongs to America for economic reasons as well as literary ones.
And Pooh belongs to America for financial reasons as well as scholastic ones.
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If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy.
Real myths are rare.
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You could argue that Joe Avid is so hooked on Slate that we can afford to put him over a barrel at the micropayment rate, even though it means that he will pay a lot more.
Joe Avid would be willing to pay more if pushed to.
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But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.
Rips appears afraid to address the invitation to competition
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As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.
We are a new medium
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The computer, now much faster and smarter, may triumph, but humans shouldn't fret.
Humans are worried about computers replacing them in the future.
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Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.
multicultural values are more liberal.
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They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.
They are fans of the Backstreet Boys
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On the same day, another Albanian paper, iKoha Jonei , published some impressive statistics about corruption in the Albanian government.
The paper that published statistics is Greek
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The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines).
The site has not been at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited for several months now.
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It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that.
The author is not sure what Beatty will do.
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One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.
Everyone contributes to making sure schools and libraries can access the internet.
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It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface.
He had nothing going for him; not even a glint of an interesting person was left in him.
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(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.)
The baseball season is in the same list as AMC.
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As this discussion shows, measuring Web traffic is generally less exact than measuring traditional magazine circulation.
There are less subscribers than there are visitors of the website.
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It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism.
Taking the safe route is the best bet for a long career in journalism.
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It takes a man to stand.
Women sit.
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Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too.
They were bending over backward to show how sensitive they could be.
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From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful.
Your brother and his wife have a clear monogamous marriage.
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Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal.
Girls hate it when guys give them roses.
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Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only interc...
All traditionalist agree the World Series should be protected.
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She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.
Fuel-cell engines utilize hydrogen to generate energy, and their only byproduct is H2O.
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In a sense, the advertising industry is reluctantly moving toward a business model much closer to the so-called free-agent economy than to the traditional idea of a corporation.
Advertisement industries are excited to change their business model for the future.
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What happened to Rocker's right to free (albeit despicable) speech?
Rocker is a child.
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The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers.
The Liggett Group was a major player among tobacco companies.
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Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be.
The government has enough wealth where it does not need individual money.
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This means a housing strategy that shifts more decisively in the direction it has been inching under Clinton.
Clinton had a housing strategy.
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The changes were attributed 1) increased cohabitation
Most people have at least one roommate.
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Let's take video games as an example.
Taking video games as an example will disprove our theory.
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Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.
Numerous political topics were discussed in the springtime of 1997.
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Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.
The White Dog was made into a screenplay.
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The general staff, for instance, has essentially forbidden Russia from talking to NATO.
NATO cannot talk to Russia.
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The seductive and corrupting film noir downtowns featured in so many admired cheap second features might as well all have been demolished, along with the long-gone Bijous and Palaces where these films first played.
The theaters showing film noir movies are still running to this day.
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(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in
Krugman has washed his hands of the World Trade Organization.
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The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.
Martin thinks she owes hime $4,000.00.
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To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great!
I like saying I'm told I'm great to get the discussion back on track.
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This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
She is correct in allowing this alleged societal dynamic to become her methodological justification.
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That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.
touching people good for you
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Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.
Madison avenue has not yet made ads that apeal to inner city kids.
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Naturally, European governments want to tax call-back services out of existence.
European governments won't stop the attack until call-back services are gone.
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Negotiations with the powerful postal unions begin in August, with contracts due to expire in November.
The postal unions contracts are set to expire in November.
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My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.
Peter Maass and Peter Maas are the same writer, it's just a name that's commonly misspelled.
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Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change.
Monica Lewinsky is going to go into hiding.
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The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Camden Yards' top deck and produced a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet, about eight rows closer than Arlington's.
The Orioles pressed for several design changes that would produce a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet.
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Biblical overtones--the tale of Jacob and Laban--bubble up from Malamud's simplicity.
The story is hard to understand and complex.
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Outlook SWAT teams swooped down daily to reduce the size of our code.
The daily maintenance by the SWAT teams is greatly appreciated by all the teams that work with the code.
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If I really own my modem, then I must have an unqualified right to dial up anywhere, any time, and suck in whatever is out there to be sucked.
Owning your own modem has its advantages
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And every tournament game receives this treatment.
The unique nature of each tournament game requires each game to be handled differently.
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Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.
Doctors and medical students placed a stent into a freshly deceased patient
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The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
Because of the family's loose attitude toward King's work, it has flourished.
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I keep losing at their damn casinos.
I win games at the casinos whenever I go there.
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Has the government not tried hard enough?
The state did try hard but not hard enough
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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
Happiness is seeing a once great institution fail miserably.
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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.
He used one primary color which was green.
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Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.
Randall informed the tabloid the dog was named after Sonny Bono.
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They assure the readers that they, like most economists and finance people, have their retirement savings in stocks.
They confidently told their readers that they, like most economists and finance people, have their retirement savings in stocks.
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There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.
A solid theoretical foundation supports this question
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The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it.
Mr. Graham has criticized the PDFA
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But Ved Mehta was always the butt of the worst abuse.
Ved Mehta was treated with the utmost respect.
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It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is sturdy and forgiving.
While inspiring, the role models were quickly shut down during the debate and silenced by the draconian political process.
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The more Brown is attacked, the better she does.
Barraging Chuck makes him better
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I keep losing at their damn casinos.
I keep losing my money at the casinos.
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Is all of The Limey a temporal hiccup?
every thing is as expected
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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.
matron of honors prefer to swim in poll than to walk down isles.
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Maybe lime green was a big mistake, but it's his mistake to live with.
If he decides against the lime green, he can always change it.
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The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in eli...
The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which never assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training i...
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But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of
His job involves reviewing prose
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How do you forbid the kids to practice what you, er, practice?
If you don't want your kids to do something, you shouldn't do it yourself.
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In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.
Females in Istanbul only wear headscarves for religious reasons.
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I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.
Monica doesn't get along with her co-workers.
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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House impeachment leader Rep.
Trent Lott and the House impeachment leader belong to the same party.
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The critics I spoke to, however, offered credible arguments.
The critics I spoke to, however, offered questionable arguments.
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The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.
The rule was of benefit to many groups, including options traders.
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, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.
They want to help the poor
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Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.
They want you to imagine what would happen if Apple had a monopoly in the browser market.
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Nor does Big Blue exercise the kind of financial or cultural power that Morgan once did.
Morgan no longer exercises financial power as does Big Blue.
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In one massacre, an 11-year-old girl watched her father being marched off and later found his charred body.
An 11-year-old girl found her father's charred body in a ditch.
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You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.
Black studies is respected.
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A meeting with the district's member of Congress has been scheduled, but I have no doubt how this will end.
I think the meeting with the member of Congress could end up being negative or positive.
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They celebrate the U.S. women's comparative innocence.
U.S. women's comparative purity is celebrated.
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The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.
The governor was embarrassed because his wife low-balled him.
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One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries.
A deterrent to food-stamp use is the embarrassment felt in the checkout line.
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Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.
The ad accuses Clinton's critics
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House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., has so far refused to schedule a hearing on Barr's resolution.
Gerald Solomon immediately called for a time to discuss Barr's resolution.
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