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When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.
Barker only wanted to report the truth.
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But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
The ring was not his.
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Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.
Lyndon Johnson and Oswald were best friends and were famous for their friendship, seen frequently hanging out at the White House.
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Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victor...
It had very little resemblance to anything else published prior.
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But few would discard laws against organ selling.
Regulations regarding the sale of internal body parts have been revoked by popular demand.
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Disney's Tarzan is not only post-imperial, post-racist, and post-classist but also post-masculine.
Disney's Tarzan was racist.
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I think Michael Jordan is beginning to get a bit frustrated with his new cohorts in the Washington Wizards front office.
Michael Jordan has new cohorts.
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Mavis believes the deaths are accidental, but circumstances suggest that the act was at least unconsciously volitional.
Mavis wrongly believed the deaths were accidental.
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Against all this, Morris shows footage of Leuchter chiseling at Auschwitz and even adds some of his own, along with slow-motion shots of hammers bashing rocks, walls, floors, etc.
Morris is a Holocast victim's advocate.
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You e-mail your tale of woe--inferior products, ignorant customer service--to shoppingavenger@slate.com, and the Shopping Avenger will use his reporting skills, which have been described by some as almost supernatural in scope (and have been described by others as adequate and sort of pathetic) to extract on your behal...
The Shopping Avenger will try to help extract on your behalf grudging apologies from faceless bureaucrats at Fortune 500 companies.
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Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
The countries in the East and the South are eager to become democracies.
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And with those four stigmatic words, the music business was born.
The four words were 'play that funky music'
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Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.
Monday Night Football resides in multiple groups' top 10.
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Paleontologist Ivan Turk, who discovered the bone, recently told Scientific American that the four holes are really well rounded and just about the right separation for humans to put their finger on.
He advises that they don't actually do so.
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The Shopping Avenger right away made contact with the Super 8 executive offices.
They did not hesitate to get in touch with corporate
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Some people want a Caddy and others want a Chevy, he shrugs.
Everyone wants a Chevy and a Caddy.
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(In last week's win against Minnesota, the Jets committed only one.)
Minnesota defeated the Jets.
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It gets better when they stop to chat.
Chatting is frowned on, making things awkward, like stepping on a frog during a deep space silence.
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Wal-Mart still won't stock adult videos, although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do.
Wal-Mart is fully stocked with all kinds of pornography.
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I hope the next generation is large enough to include that person.
The hope is that person is in the next generation, which is expected to be large enough.
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Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt.
He is part of the audience.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
Tout de Suite is a mundane jazz record
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At least, it seems clear that the earnings of the total labor force have risen pretty much in line with productivity (output per hour of work) when measured correctly.
As productivity rises, wages for employees at profitable companies should also rise.
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You can bet no one will ever elect me to public office.
I am convinced I will never be elected to any position.
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The company is upset not because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink to TicketMaster's site, but because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.
The company was pleased that Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.
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The important question is not whether these stories are true
The question about whether the stories are true is irrelevant.
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Morris is more of an idiot savant.
He was closer to a genius who lacked common sense than a straightforward intellectual.
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During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him.
George W. Bush was able to watch Pat Buchanan.
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The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.
"The Bell Curve" contains many complex statistical calculations, many of which are not derivative works.
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President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.
The president appeared at the World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro
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First, it loses sales of Windows 95.
Windows 95 will lose sales.
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For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.
Couples who make similar amounts of money are happier.
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And Stewart Brand's II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974), which recounts how this generation of computer kids designed computer games based on science fiction and used the Internet to fashion a universe of their own.
Cybernetic Frontiers cleared the way for kids to design computer games based on sci-fi
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Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.
I been knowin' bout Powell's chill graduation as valedictorian, spitin' rhyme at his speech.
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In other words, I write because I think it is right.
I have only ever written what I think it is right.
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In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.
Sawyer officially stated her position in the matter.
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He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2.
He made more for Basic Instinct.
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Such a state, with a constitution and identical rights for all citizens, could guarantee long-term security in a way that the current fake peace doesn't.
A threat to peace is a threat to secruity.
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Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.
Gore need to bring new people to his website.
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The Air Force says the case was less about adultery and more about Flinn's subsequent lying and cover-up.
Flinn told the truth about the adultery
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Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
Information technology also makes it harder for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
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I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire.
There's nothing to admire in Fred Fournier's high school.
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Andy's If you must wager on sports, go to Vegas or stick with your neighborhood bookie--he's probably more reputable, if more clearly illegal.
Vegas has sports wagers
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Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets.
Commodity futures and currency futures are the best options for companies.
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Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry.
The telecom industry thinks it is ridiculous and untrue that they have been taken over by merger mania.
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The kids will be gone in no time.
parents will miss children when they are gone.
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Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.
Republicans in the Senate did not want the reform bill to pass.
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The company is upset not because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink to TicketMaster's site, but because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.
The company was upset because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.
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As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.
Companies are presented with demands from their employees as well as their stockholders.
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Based on scuttlebutt and speculation from insiders at the Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford White Houses, here are the four likeliest scenarios for presidential adultery.
The author is comparing past Presidents to each other in the likeliness of adultry.
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If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel.
The channel has since been removed for download from the internet.
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(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.)
His name, which was Jeff, remained in my memory for nine-tenths of a second
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Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.
Barr avoided anything bigger than the states in order to avoid further scrutiny.
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At their press conference after the Senate verdict, several House prosecutors interrupted their sermons against the polls to point out where the public agreed with them.
They have an inferiority complex
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Disk compression and networking into Windows.
Disk compression is a complicated process that few understand.
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Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!
Prudie is not confident of her typing abilities under stress.
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Thanks again for enduring what must have been a trying cartoon to publish.
The cartoon was easy to create.
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Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.
Baghdad was targeted in the airstrikes
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Afterward, the doctors compare the results of the placebo surgeries with those of real operations.
Each step of the placebo surgeries is comparable to those of the real operation.
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At MIT, where he had been given a teaching job, he hardly bothered with undergraduates and humiliated graduate students by solving their thesis problems.
He got a teaching job at MIT, where he solved thesis problems with graduate students.
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They may claim this, but their very appearance in these scarves cancels that interpretation.
They enjoyed wearing the scarves.
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Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).
Springer did not make any meaningful effort to apologize or excuse himself.
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But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.
Gerth had something to gain by hiding the truth
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the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ...
That man will always be in charge in Taiwan.
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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
Courts were a popular option as early as the 1780s to check the excess of legislators.
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The National Basketball Association fined Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman $50,000 for insulting Mormons.
Dennis Rodman praised the Mormons.
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Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents.
The Republican Party had a pessimistic view of politics.
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From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.
Clinton is avoiding his problems
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In other words, yes.
The answer is no.
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It is not overarching moral or political meaning that Didion has suddenly discovered.
Didion is very political
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If you missed the link on why conservatives who want to eliminate the NEA don't make the point that there is a multibillion dollar arts subsidy embedded in the tax code, click .
Conservatives have traditionally been adamant in their belief that the NEA performs functions that are central to a properly functioning government.
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In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.
One candidate was being condecending to another.
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Group is involved in joint ventures with Ford and Nynex.)
Group is independent of Ford and Nynex.
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And what makes Chatterbox think he knows all about the Clintons' chilly business deal either?
The Clintons' business dealings are legitimate, but Chatterbox chooses not to trust them.
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And, when he could, would bite.
I bit at every chance.
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And the United States is also leading the creation of new international the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the North Atlantic Free Trade Association, the World Trade Organization, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The World Trade Center is in Tokyo
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Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.
Disney will always avoid creating a version of Beowulf.
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Kill 'em with kindness, and they don't know where to look.
Kindness has traditionally been the most effective way to disarm people.
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Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.
Critics disliked most of the film
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Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a vir...
Internet gambling has been very popular in recent years as federal law allows it.
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As I understand it, an exit strategy is a sort of poor man's Powell Doctrine.
I see the exit strategy as a worse version of the Powell Doctrine.
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What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat.
Commoditization does its work by remaining a perpetually absent threat.
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Safire suggests that Janet Reno should have asked to see the president alone, warned him unequivocally of the penetration, enlisted his aid in the investigation--or, if she thought it necessary, read him his rights.
Reno did not follow protocol.
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Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy.
Iran's population is made up of 10% Kurds.
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And, oh, to know what a frolic is!
He knows what a Frolic is.
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Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr.
He has visited Russia.
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I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.
I have no interest in sports
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He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.
His (the person trying to stave off suspicions) name is Fred Barnes.
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I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him.
Blumenthal was my coworker at the New Yorker.
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The compositions become ever more undulating and graceful.
Those written creations were becoming more finely nuanced.
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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.
Those compulsives are friggin' crazy
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Its well-tended (by the federal government) parks, monuments, mansions, embassies, and museums can compare with those of any city in the world.
Its once impeccable parks have become overgrown.
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Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the English Professor tried to give life to and revive a local AAUP chapter.
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Of course, this decision raises plenty of questions of its own.
The decision is a difficult one to make.
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They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The
Gays were never lampooned
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The villains were the blacklisters.
There were villains
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Wal-Mart still won't stock adult videos, although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do.
Wal-Mart does not sell pornography.
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I realize now that the cameras and microphones were probably installed by [the Globe ] while I was out, she reports.
She watched the cameras be installed.
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Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building.
The main theme of the book is bankruptcy.
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As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.
Pundits made news worthy comments
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