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Contribution limits don't stop you from associating publicly or privately with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or even signifying your association by donating money.
Current contribution limits were put in place in the 1980s.
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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.
It is cost-effective to get compulsives under control
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Another answer is to promote civic virtue.
There is only one solution to the problem.
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Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee.
Vice President Gore hates Tennessee, all the cities in Tennessee, and refuses to go there.
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Pataki made this explicit at the bill's Albany signing History teaches us that the Great Hunger was not the result of a massive Irish crop failure, but rather a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.
The British starved the Irish by preventing them from receiving food.
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The Pescis and Esther Williams won't come unless they get some!
Esther was impatient and came before an offering was made.
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A 1990 study found that 28 percent of children diagnosed with the disorder didn't actually meet the definition.
Every child in the study met the definition of the disorder.
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No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.
The ballots are used to determine who the next president of the country is.
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(So, while she was dragged into the scandal against her will, it was her own loquaciousness that made the dragging possible.)
She refused to become involved in the scandal.
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His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season.
Slate has a large following
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But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99.
The number 99 has nothing to do with the election.
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Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.
The snoop failed to uncover any personal information
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We don't know, for example, if Earthlike planets are common.
Earthlike planets could be lived on by us.
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Gore, like Clinton, has often used cultural issues such as abortion to make the GOP look extreme.
Cultural issues are relevant to members of Gore and Clinton's party.
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It covers every angle a young media entrepreneur could dream highbrow nonfiction (the first comprehensive collection of King's sermons); innovative nonfiction (a King autobiography cobbled together from his writings); audiotapes of King speeches; high-tech (a fancy civil-rights Web site); and even a little snack for D...
Neither innovative nonfiction nor highbrow nonfiction are covered.
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Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.
We can go shopping on Saturday at all of our favorite shops.
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Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.
Newspapers ran stories about Carey's campaign
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1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.
The parts the script leaves out are not important.
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They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.
The Serbs stood up to Hitler
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They assure the readers that they, like most economists and finance people, have their retirement savings in stocks.
They witnessed that most economists and finance people, have dabbled their retirement savings in stocks.
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France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.
There are groups of people that speculate upon France's currency.
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Until two years ago, it was ritual among Supreme Court-watchers to speculate that this term would be Rehnquist's last.
Rehnquist served on the Supreme Court.
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The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting.
The act allows cross ownership.
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We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year.
We saw some friends recently, and they gave us a complete set of Funk & Wagnall Encyclopedias.
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Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.
Data sharing between internet users is rarely successful.
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If you're lying, shame on you.
It is bad to lie.
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I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie.
The movie was very well explained and makes everything clear.
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But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely postpone it.
But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely expedite it.
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Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades.
No one has discussed whether or not he is prone to tirades.
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I remember that some people complained President Eisenhower was distracted from the business of his office because he was out playing golf so much.
President Eisenhower very rarely played golf.
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An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).
Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis write about their fixation with fashion models.
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Utah looks like my dream come true.
The Utah monolith is an art piece.
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
They cannot survive water an cooler than near-boiling.
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Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.
Arafat will run in the next presidential election.
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In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.
The Carter Family recorded songs before 1936.
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They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.
They believed my work is not up to par and therefore denied my entree into journalism.
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I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.
More commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out, was something they almost wished for.
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In a recent op-ed article in the New York Times , the theologian Michael Novak argued that a new appreciation for, and sensitivity to, religious matters was stirring everywhere.
Michael has been unable to find evidence of a surge of religious appreciation.
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The magazines do the math on the State of the Union address.
Doing the math on the State of the Union address is something magazines engage in.
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In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.
Doctors are extinct in Chicago.
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Hours before, Netanyahu had given a speech insisting that Israel would not halt the rapid construction of a controversial housing project in East Jerusalem or make further concessions to halt terrorism.
Netanyahu was unable to give a speech.
contradiction
' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.
Aggressive individuals deployed by the Serbians fully retreated back behind their borders weeks ago.
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Recently amended federal confidentiality laws have prompted such schools as the University of Delaware, Indiana University, and Penn State to notify parents when students under 21 violate campus rules concerning drugs or alcohol.
Students who break rules at Penn State are let go with a warning and no parental notification, no matter how serious the violation.
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Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.
Afghanistan was carved up by warlords.
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What makes Linux enthralling from a tech-head's point of view is that it is based on Unix standards that have been around for decades.
Linux has a huge following
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Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers.
Salinger wrote letters.
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Bloomie's says I've got $40 due,
Bloomie lent out money.
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You can have a park in your backyard (as I do) and still make it to work in 15 minutes (if you keep a sharp eye out for the potholes).
Your backyard can have a park and you can still make it to work in 10 minutes.
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If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here.
Clinton and Lewinski were unnoticed by the agent.
contradiction
Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.
The US Women's hockey team won the silver medal at the 1998 Olympic games.
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It's silly that this is all such a guessing game.
There is uncertainty in the outcome.
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Congress cannot impose community service on the president without his permission--that would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
Multiple United States presidents have received penalties via bills of attainder.
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In retrospect, though, two things seem clear.
Two things seemed clear in retrospect.
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The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores.
The book's debut at Jeff Bezos' company was delayed past Christmas.
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But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection.
I won't let the odds get in my way of meeting someone.
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But in the long run, it's unavoidable.
One can not avoid it in the long run.
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Oh, come on, my date insisted.
The date insisted.
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Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no cuisine.
Mintz does not like American food.
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A few of the more bearable Hotel Bill, Cash Inn, China Pattern, The John Wilkes Toll Booth, Sheets for Treats.
China Pattern is a brand of home goods.
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It was immediately clear that Lott should not have said this.
Lott said the wrong thing.
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into prose of crystalline clarity and grace, it is ...
The prose is written without clarity or grace.
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In retrospect, though, two things seem clear.
In retrospect, though, two things remained unclear.
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And the bureaucratic approach prevents the section as a whole from taking positions on--or creating--literary issues.
At times the section has literary issues.
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Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country.
John Paul Getty II died when he was 42.
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From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire.
The Presidential candidates spouse and Offspring were ordered from a voice on high to give up and force him to resign.
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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.
Todd lacks respect and talent.
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We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use.
Drug use policies are expected within educational institutions.
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In a culture where Xena and Hercules have hit TV shows, it's a lot more fun imagining that you are a valiant warrior doing business-as-battle than it is to admit that you're a pudgy functionary whose most daring deed is to draft a boldly worded memo.
Hercules, the hero from Greek mythology, was a valiant warrior who the author would probably like to roleplay as.
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Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
No harm may come to those who commit perjury.
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In a culture where Xena and Hercules have hit TV shows, it's a lot more fun imagining that you are a valiant warrior doing business-as-battle than it is to admit that you're a pudgy functionary whose most daring deed is to draft a boldly worded memo.
Hercules, the Greek hero of old, is more fun to roleplay as than a memo-writing functionary.
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( Slate published a piece co-authored by Glass last year.
Slate and Glass often work together on investigative journalism.
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It seems suitable in Saudi Arabia, for example, where women can't vote, since it squashes public expression along with hair.
Saudi Arabia has a lot rules based on someone's gender.
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The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins.
Suzanne Farrell danced in the production Chaconne.
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The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.
The Americans owe a lot of money to the organization.
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If car insurance were a tax-free benefit, it wouldn't be surprising to find employers picking low-cost insurers who make you visit preferred mechanics and skimp on coverage for Land Rovers and minivans.
Employers are always trying to rob Peter to pay Paul, getting the cheapest insurance available to cover minor medical insurance costs.
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Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed.
Hundreds of names were purged off the delivery lists
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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.
McCain's campaign was about tabacco.
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Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics.
She writes music reviewed by critics.
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The first, as many of you did, is to take the competition improbably downscale--mixing implausible amounts of sex and/or violence into the competition.
Sex and violence was excluded from the competition completely.
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Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)
The accusation occurred in 1968
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Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ...
Aaron Whiteheard heard a kid one night
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But Disney Pooh reaches the world.
Disney Pooh is popular.
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Inappropriate behavior is present on the right as well.
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If a fetus is a fully human life, then all abortion is murder and the debate over any particular procedure is beside the point.
Abortion is murder if a fetus is a human
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Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ...
They have been married a long time.
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I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.
David's response is gracious
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First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection.
The entire collection has been devastated due to the pandemic.
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Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term when used by politicians.
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The first lies in the assumption that all three-second periods are worth the same.
Some three-second periods could have different value
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Attitudes changed too.
My attitude changes.
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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 traveled to a house in the city.
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In Gigot's mind, he is the most successful loser in political history--his failed presidential run defined a conservative agenda that was eventually elected in the person of Ronald Reagan.
Gigot won the presidential election.
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Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.
Liquor leads to bad decisions
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For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's.
Michelangelo never left Florence
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Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?
navel oranges do not have seeds.
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A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line.
Jackie Kennedy came on the line a few seconds before.
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Her recognition of the grave personal injustice done by the left to Clarence Thomas is especially appreciated.
She held a gathering to raise awareness of the injustice to Clarence Thomas.
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I might even vote for her.
I registered to vote months ago.
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You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute.
The hotel is fancy.
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With the global economy showing signs of coming apart at the seams, it is truly disappointing that the leaders of the two countries who ought to be co-operating to prevent a worldwide crisis are having to struggle for their own political lives, it said.
The economy is in trouble.
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