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The troopers see Hillary as an undesirable, foul-mouthed harridan who had brought the mistreatment and neglect on herself.
Because the troopers worked in law enforcement, they were not pleased with Hillary's foul language and poor self-conduct.
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Newsweek notes that while the Dalai Lama promotes religious understanding and meditation, he opposes abortion, contraception, and homosexual acts.
The Dalai Lama is against gay people.
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We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices.
More options have been added to the e-mail service.
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PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact.
PointCast is a firm that produces software.
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While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians, says Stuart Klawans.
Liberal political ideas are found in Beatty's film "The Nation".
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Sad organ music is suddenly replaced by an upbeat, jazzy The owner opens the drawer and takes the package.
The owner can't find the package.
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(Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.)
Penelope Leach is famous for her work regarding kids.
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Dexfenfluramine (tradenamed Redux), a cousin of fenfluramine, was just released.
Dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine are similar drugs.
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Do it too soon and you seem glib and You're sorry?
The person being questioned is sorry.
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This counterattack has only helped Bush achieve the distance he sought in the first place.
Bush wanted to distance himself from the issue at hand.
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We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.
We will be back on the appropriations bills when 24 months worth of funds come up
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is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.
The article has no validity outside of themselves.
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Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes.
Editorialists struggled to connect the two contrary outcomes.
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And third, in the issue it published the following Monday, Newsweek included the full excerpt--which is where Brill found the out-of-context quote he claims Newsweek ignored.
Newsweek included the full excerpt in the issue it published the following Monday
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Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.
Greider wants to use tax incentives and subsidies as rewards and penalties for businesses.
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But as Felix Frankfurter wrote in dissent, this distinction is silly.
Frankfurter is lost to history, and every thought contained in his writings will remain an unknowable mystery.
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There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget.
Indications that the administration is tempted to forgive and forget do not exist right now
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There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.
The responses today were from long ago memories, before the internet became popular.
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The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
Without the family, people could have had unrestricted access to King's work.
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In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.
Intels are more beneficial than Planet Hollywoods.
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Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.
Islamic fundamentalism is mostly successful because it wants Muslim groups to return to the Prophet Mohammed's prescribed way of living.
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Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning.
She failed to meet her own standards for campaigning
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Speaking of Turkey, in honor of Thanksgiving Slate has published a full week's issue as of today (Wednesday, Nov. 26), two days early.
Slate published an issue praising thanksgiving.
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People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others.
Winter is a time of famine.
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Good economic news, as the man once said, always comes bundled with bad.
Whenever economic news sounds good, it is always accompanied with bad news
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If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirk...
Birdwhistell traveled to multiple places.
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It's Wallace's lack of interest in Wigand's story--the movie's most powerful--that damns him in the audience's eyes.
Wallace's lack of interest damns him in the audience's eyes.
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Lied about it to everyone .
Was totally honest with everyone about everything.
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His son and heir, Bashar, is inexperienced (he's an ophthalmologist by training).
Bashar is not entitled to any property
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One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game.
The game is the same playing experience for everyone.
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The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.
The Christian right and the GOP had platforms that dovetailed beautifully with one another.
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Is that such a terrible thing?
It might be a terrible thing
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But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.
Business leaders copy the rhetoric of the media.
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Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him.
Johnson promised to help Kennedy to encourage him to run.
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Explainer thanks many Slate readers for suggesting this topic.
Slate readers do not have any interest in Slate.
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The sunny We nailed the terrorists.
We got the terrorists.
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If it really wants to balance the budget it should just do so, rather than passing feel-good laws that say the budget should be balanced.
Laws cannot require the budget be balanced.
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Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate.
There are candidates that hide their crimes.
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Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
Vaclav Havel was the duly elected executive leader of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
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(Aniston, by the way, might want to compare notes with The Enquirer says that she too fell victim to a freak rear end accident this month when an overzealous deer nipped her hindquarters.
The Enquirer published an article about Aniston.
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An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades.
The Hale-Bopp comet will be out of sight in one week.
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The newer ballets aim for more universal and fundamental emotions than amazement--for a sense of beauty, or joy, or love, or sorrow.
The newer ballets stuck to one emotion which was sorrow.
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Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
Sure things attract too much smart money and too many good ideas.
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The Network Vehicle designers left car phones off the list, I guess, because they assume that car phones are practically standard equipment today.
All cars come with car phones.
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(I missed her in last year's Stepmom --my raccoon had hepatitis.)
Her raccoon had hepatitis.
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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.
The Post never reported that Janet Reno became confused by the computer system in her office.
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Democrats have done themselves a lot of harm by refusing to discriminate between those programs that are vital and those that are not.
Democrats don't distinguish between vital programs and nonvital programs.
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The Seagram Co. expanded plans to advertise liquor on television, defying President Clinton's plea to honor the half-century-old voluntary ban.
Clinton is against liquor being advertised on television.
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(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)
Russia lies to make themselves look better.
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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...
Expert marksmen shoot weapons.
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Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.
IE and Windows come separately from the start.
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Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.
It's logical to think that aliens wrote the Old Testament.
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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.
All bookies are legal
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Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)
There were more than ten amusing replies that were on page two.
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This tax-cutting initiative, which he is readying for the November 2000 election, will cap annual property-tax appraisals at 2 percent and exempt vehicles from the property tax (on the long shot that the government might start taxing cars as property).
The November 2000 election will involve taxes among other initiatives.
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Nearly 30 homosexuals are featured in prime time, but few shows are sophisticated enough to script love lives for their homocharacters.
Romantic storylines for gay characters are lacking on TV.
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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.
Stanley Tucci turned down the role of Walter Winchell
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Many of them in fine restaurants.
Fine restaurants use other things instead.
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Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)
There was only one page in the document that contained the replies.
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process one out of every four checks in the country.
Process twenty fiver percent of checks in the area of that continent.
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The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
The play incited a range of emotions.
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A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.
A wall panel describes the importance of milk on top of the marble.
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Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.
Republicans have changed their stance on the topic of executive privilege.
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It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.
Pork Crackling is a food popular with British people.
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In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.
Christopher Plummer is good at his job.
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The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.
The won's value will decline soon.
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When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.
The CD made a lot of money.
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In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law.
The Taliban's interpretation is called Sharia
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But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year.
They only cost about $50 per year.
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The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.
The backdoor sniping has become harmful.
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According to Helen Lawrenson, a former Vanity Fair editor and Johnson's self-proclaimed ex-lover, this is a romantic view of him.
Helen Lawrenson and Johnson had an intimate relationship in the past.
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Mir's life span has been extended well past what it was designed for, as Russia cannot afford a replacement.
Mir had a short lifespan
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Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
Powell is considered by everyone to be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
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If he becomes a serious threat, Livingston and other GOP leaders will make sure to stop him.
GOP leaders cannot stop a serious threat
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The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray.
If you don't make up your mind right now, it'll all be gone.
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Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.
A cease-fire was instantiated in 1991.
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The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost.
To cover the costs Slate just charges uers more.
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This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields.
No one finds this story interesting or newsworthy.
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either Lee or Chang or Wong.
Lee, Chang, or Wong are of Asian decent.
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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.
Veep is charging customers more than the wiring costs
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To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.
The idea is to counteract mushy curricula and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.
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Willey might have a better case against Clinton if she wants to make it--and if her story is true.
Willey will prove her story to make a better case.
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The Globe claims that actress Sarah Michelle Gellar--whose thoughts on John Kennedy's passing are dutifully recorded in the Star 's Hollywood Weeps story--threw a lavish, catered birthday party for her dog, Thor, and 20 of his nearest and dearest.
The news paper was unaware of the parties happening at Sarah Michelle Gellar's for her dog
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His technique is too methodical and slow, she said.
She prefers her own technique
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The rules have indeed changed.
Rules are unchanging.
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But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal.
Most humans would like to be remembered in a positive light.
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The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge.
The components were left separate and whole, to avoid mixing them together.
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While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.
The republican congress would have impeached Clinton even if Nixon had not resigned.
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As developers kill the bugs, they incorporate the solutions into a daily build of the program and test the build to make certain the solutions don't cause additional bugs.
Developers try to get rid of bugs
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Clinton, though, has also faced a continuing barrage of unserious allegations--implausible and untrue.
The allegations were untrue.
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George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.
The commemoration went unnoticed by the world
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The paper's art critic compared the exhibit to unprocessed sewage and said that if Emin wins the prize, as she very well might, her victory will testify not to the vitality of British art but to a campaign of promotion so brazen that it has left even the cynical London art world awestruck.
The paper's art critic did not have a high opinion of the exhibit.
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Newsweek claims 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. has become crime time for American teen-agers.
Late afternoons and early evenings are when all crimes by American teenagers are being committed.
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That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.
The man lacked confidence, and was scared.
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Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.
Father-son talks were initiated by Levy.
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Perhaps the uncritical reportage of Fitzsimmons' new story can be explained by pangs of guilt about the uncritical reportage of his old one.
Stories of Fitzsimmon have been described as uncritical.
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Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.
No one sees even a hint of believability in her jabbering.
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--DeParle refers to Milwaukee's growing homeless shelter population, but doesn't give any figures on how much it's growing.
DePearle says that there is a group of destitues.
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Still, the solution Schor proposes seems almost as forced and obsessive as overspending itself.
Schor made a proposal that seemed forced
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How could the Mormons have practiced polygamy?
The Mormons practiced polygamy.
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