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Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein.
there is no controversy about Saddam Hussein
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The photos were released by Bill Ballance, 80, a former radio talk show host who says he and Schlessinger were once lovers, who, in his memorable phrase, used to thrash around like a couple of crazed weasels.
Bill Ballance had an affair with Schlessinger.
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He's in his own league.
The league contains only him
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His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
His child Bill, was a math teacher at Princeton.
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This moderate course doesn't satisfy the most avid consumerists.
Avid consumerists love the moderate course
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Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.
Storr makes unfounded claims about these paintings,
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At the hang gliding site, click Links ...
There is no information online about hang gliding.
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The other holds a gun to your head every day.
The sun is out when the gun is held to your head.
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My situation is something of a good news-bad news thing.
The good news makes up for the bad news.
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This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.
The foundation is not ideal for making a durable business empire.
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a consuming addiction, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden.
Stephen Holden works for the New York Times.
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The clearest proof of the new left's poverty is what Clinton and Blair have to say about the middle class.
Clinton and Blair have spoken about the middle clas
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Did this really make her beautiful?
It was a question as to whether it made her beautiful.
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The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.
People want these recordings because they are rare.
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So fascinated that it ran not one, but two stories on the apparently bottomless topic, one in the Money and Business section and one in the Week in Review.
The topic was boring and the newspaper decided to just put it in the Money and Business section.
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Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.
Pro-choicer's strategy is working in their favor.
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Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader!
Other news outlets also reported on the event.
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It is impressive that such a warm and amiable fellow--and he was--could be so profoundly wrong at least twice.
He was wrong more than two times.
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For the remaining puzzle is why the world provided LTCM with so much money to lose.
LTCM received money from all over the world.
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You can be the birthplace of Heidegger, Hegel, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Brecht, and Martin Luther, but you start one little world war ...
Heidegger, Hegel, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Brecht, and Martin Luther were all born in the same place.
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Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.
Bennett didn't write about gays
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The bears are holding up what might be a dinner plate that says, United We Stand Divided We Ball, indicating a surprisingly open marriage or that the ink smeared.
The dinner plate is mounted on the wall.
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The largest Republican constituency may be the Tight-Lipped Republicans . These folks, who include old-timers such as Virginia's John Warner, Alaska's Ted Stevens, and Mississippi's Thad Cochran, are as annoyed by the president as the next guy.
Republicans avoid criticizing the president because he is from their party.
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There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.
Alcohol has never caused any problems for society.
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But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest.
Advertisers would abandon the periodical if it were free
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There are, to be sure, pivotal generational experiences.
every generation experiences a pivotal point
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The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze.
Squeezing the pump is not hard.
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When the nation's overall trade deficit increases, it means that Americans, on average, are spending more than they are earning.
To become profitable and reduce the trade deficits, Americans need to sell to China.
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Nash pioneered game theory, became schizophrenic, recovered, then won a Nobel Prize late in life.
Nash never experienced mental illness.
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After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession.
They thought the book was interesting.
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If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things.
The story is hilarious.
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One problem, among many, is that most people's living rooms aren't Carnegie Hall; as a result, the music just sounds muddy.
The average person's living room is acoustically sound.
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It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.
Dial-up internet service is cheap.
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The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.
The WP told very serious and factual stories.
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Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m.
Next day's edition should be completed and ready for the press by 5 P.M everyday except for Friday to Sunday.
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On Wednesday , NBC sinks to new lows with The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?
NBC is broadcasting a show on Thursday.
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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 had more important issues than Barr's resolution to discuss.
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From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel .
Officials will use more secure private counsel to discuss risky legal issues rather than using government lawyers.
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If one thinks Ken Starr is out of control, the other, ideally, should argue that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement.
Ken Starr and Bill Clinton are equally likely to get caught up in drama.
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DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
Most linkages, such as this one, are technical necessities
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Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.
She does not belong to that culture.
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So does that of my fellow general editor, Nelly MacKay.
Nelly MacKay works as a general editor
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Before NATO began bombing Yugoslavia March 24, the proposed Rambouillet solution--restoring Kosovo's autonomy but not granting it independence--seemed like a plausible outcome.
The Yugoslavia government was happy with the outcome.
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And a great marketing Buy my books, because they're good for your daughter.
The books marketing plan was horrible.
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Another AP item in the Post reports that at her weekly news conference, Janet Reno admitted she has become so confused over the computer system in her office that she has forsaken it for paper and pencil.
Janet Reno struggles with most technology.
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The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations.
The Supreme Court overturned the McCarthy-era statue.
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Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!
The Scientists cannot speak due to a gag order.
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He recognized a Christian duty to charity but was gripped by a fear that his charity would be wasted, thereby incriminating him in sin.
He had faith his charity was going to be used properly.
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For state-of-the-art articles on piercing, see Flesh Canvas.
Flesh Canvas has cutting-edge articles
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Simply have their bouquets be identical and perhaps have them walk together.
If most of the flowers in the bouquets are similar, it should be good enough.
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That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious.
He could have bombed Iraq on Nov. 14 with support.
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The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared.
No one volunteered to help with the campaign finance problem because they believed that it required too much work and effort.
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Ianni writes, Johnson essentially worked as a middleman for the Italian syndicate.
Johnson worked for a Swiss syndicate
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: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden).
The images are from the artist who created His Drawings from Windsor Castle
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But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.
Cigarettes are highly contested by protestors.
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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 .
There is a marriage penalty on taxes.
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First Build the prototype.
Building the prototype is the last step.
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At the expense of the middle class.
The expense is covered entirely by the poor.
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Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower.
Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms due to climate change.
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It might be desirable for me to say nothing.
I should probably keep quiet.
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denunciations of American imperialism.
America is imperialist
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Politicians get away with advertising bogus family bliss
Politicians show pictures of smiling children in their parents loving arms to their benefit.
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(Billy is said to be the family peacemaker.)
He is the most argumentative out of his relatives
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She made a great number of friends, from village women to guerrilla leaders, multiplying the number of foreign contacts she faithfully reported on the security form required of all CIA applicants.
She listed only a few foreign contacts on her application
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What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.
Ledbetter doesn't understand that PBS's time has come and gone.
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So, the argument that we would simply have to find new buyers for government bonds is beside the point in the short run--and irrelevant in the long run, when Social Security will stop running surpluses.
The argument proposed is on point for the short run and relevant in the long run.
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In other words, yes.
The answer may be construed by some as unclear.
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Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship.
He wants to jump ship.
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The Nazi flag of the opening scene has become a Tibetan one, which they place on the summit.
The Nazi flag remained in the opening scene.
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The media imply that Bush keeps refusing to say whether he has used cocaine.
Bush has refused to clarify his cocaine use.
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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.
Evans and Novak took a vacation.
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The author's claim that she backed down from that number in later interviews (not cited) is thus groundless.
The author backed down from the original number that she stated because she faced severe criticism and backlash from the public.
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Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
The author thinks there are to many regulations on sausages.
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None exploited pig as an epithet for policeman.
Certain policeman may still be pigs.
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Museum of Jewish A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York City).
Nothing about New York is Jewish
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Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?
The speaker insisted that the wire take place before the widening for safety reasons.
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Here's what worries Given the subtlety of the real issues here, what is the chance that this stuff will be decided on its merits?
The real issues are not clear and bold.
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And there's no dramatic payoff with the chillingly satanic tobacco company president (Michael Gambon) whose threats first make Wigand think about going public.
Wigand was uninterested in going public
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Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.
Presidential expectations surge after emerging from a national trauma
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KAETHE (Offering the briefcase): NOW can you ordain me?
They are unconcerned whether they will be ordained now.
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Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.
The T-shirt bra has thin padding.
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That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity.
Even though it appears to be penalizing companies for efficiency and productivity, there are long term benefits.
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The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings.
The networks accuse one another of becoming soft to chase ratings.
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Charles Schulz need not fear death.
Charles is brave in most circumstances.
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It might be desirable for me to say nothing.
Lying could be a good option.
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But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle.
Romance will lead to complications.
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The Washington Post reported that for $5,000, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is offering donors a chance to give Trent Lott and other senators advice at a forum next month.
The Washington Post's reporting contains an error
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The United States abandoned its policy of stabilizing gold prices back in 1971.
United States gave up its policy of stabilizing gold prices in 1971
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Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?
There are pigs being slaughtered in addition to the cows and fowl
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They need more openness, not less.
Openness will ultimately lead to what they want.
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Instead they're busy scrounging for funds to spread good care more widely.
They want to give as much good care to as many as possible.
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The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.
Sino-U.S. relations has recently declined.
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A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.
It is a military group in Iraq
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Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree.
Both Quayle and Bennett agreed.
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His decision to resign and run for the ambassadorship few expect him to win should be treated like these other nutty episodes.
He resigned and ran for the ambassadorship because the incumbent ambassador was not well liked.
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They need more openness, not less.
They need less openness.
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He must know that no one can be shocked when everyone's in on the joke, but he doesn't seem to want (or to be able) to step outside the camp aesthetic and play anything straight.
Even though he knows no one can be shocked he is still unable to step outside the camp aesthetic.
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The oral-sex tape starts with well-known sex therapist Diana Wiley, in her poofy hair and broad-shouldered blue power suit, looking like she was about to explain how the sales force could increase its third-quarter productivity.
Diana Wiley had been a sex therapist for over 10 years when the tape was released
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It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.
Dial-up internet is still the most popular, fastest, and most reliable service available.
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At the same time it would teach today's youth about the real-life value of the Second Amendment.
Constitutional gun rights would also be made clear, killing two birds with one stone here.
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