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, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.
Felonies committed while using a bomb will be prosecuted in court.
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While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy.
no one was on board with pro-drug forces.
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Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society ( office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
He acts like a monk, pure in every way and every thought, she feels like she isn't worthy, so he decides to become gay.
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Microsoft is reaching out to computer novices , says a piece.
Microsoft would like to sell a computer to anyone who has never used one before, according to the piece.
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But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway?
Any fool can learn to play solitaire.
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But just between you and me, it's really bad.
Everything is going great.
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The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains We stayed home.
Kathie lee went out
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People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.
The big lawn bolster recliners were very comfortable.
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A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.
Most college guides treat education like a commodity.
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Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company.
It used to be forbidden to review a book by your own publishing company
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A long article in the same magazine enters the terrifying world of the yakuza , Japanese organized-crime syndicates.
The Yakuza are a criminal organization that originates from Japan.
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Consilience is, in any case, an excellent book.
A book called Consilience is well regarded.
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To address those issues the public--represented by the casual museum visitor--needed an understanding of the lives and practices of the gay community, so long hidden from view.
Some of the museum visitors were gay.
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Even a decade ago, a movie about Wilde and his gay affair would have been considered Today, it's a cliche.
Movies with gay love stories were less common in the past
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Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.
Russia began military operations there in 2004, in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.
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And the signs made it easier for visitors to find their way around.
The park was signs were readable by everyone.
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And you can't bring me back from the dead.
I am immortal.
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Simpson defense : law professor Barry Scheck and forensic expert Henry Lee.
During his defense they called Henry Lee to the stand.
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It's not hard to see why they use it.
It is an obvious choice over others.
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These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage.
Gambling is a sin, and such sinners deserve the innermost circle of Hell's fire!
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Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution.
I made notes about Tafero's execution.
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Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.
The story is about a co-op
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They can result from ordinary events happening to people who are receptive, appreciative, attuned to what is happening around them.
The ordinary events are good fortunes to look out for.
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And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up.
Alfred Kazin wrote about New York
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But to this woman you are not replaceable at any price.
This woman felt you were priceless.
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Now Clinton risks reversing, at least partially, the actual, practical process that brought him the caseload declines he's crowing about today.
Clinton is keeping the process on track.
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The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies.
The higher-ups in the liquor business are unhappy with the ban.
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Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.
Degas was super into being antisocial and it had to do with the daily life in French society.
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A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.
All solicitations in direct mail and e-mail formats are unauthorized.
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In fact, the evidence thus far is quite depressing in this regard.
The evidence is quite uplifting.
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Microsoft isn't preventing anyone from using Netscape or charging Netscape for the right of access; it's providing Internet Explorer free, but then that would be normal practice in this kind of industry even if IE wasn't allegedly an integral part of Windows 95.
Netscape competes with Internet Explorer
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Instead she runs through all the euphemisms for oral sex and then the video cuts to XXX action with gratuitous commentary.
The woman has experience using her mouth to demonstrate sexual acts.
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An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.
Blitzer eventually agreed to a deal.
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For example, no reasonable person would expect the United States to invade or bomb Turkey to stop genocide against the Kurds.
The United States is not expected to stop every conflict on the global scale.
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This may be justified or not--we like him well enough around here!
He is favored.
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In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.
The publications all compete against one another for readers.
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Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the...
The rise of libertarianism was understood by authors like Brand and Toffler.
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He also knew what too many latter-day economists have Macroeconomics is crucial to the public credibility of economics as a whole.
Latter-day economists prefer to focus on macroeconomics.
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Broder and Waas say they have spoken with two ex- Spectator employees who anonymously corroborate Mann and Rand's assertion that the Arkansas Project paid Hale.
Broder and Wass asserted that the Arkansas Project paid Hale.
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Not until that supremely attractive female butt crossed my radar in Nordstrom did I start to feel better.
The woman in Nordstrom had a supremely attractive butt.
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There is no good way to measure the gap between women's earnings and their productivity, but it is reasonable to say that their earnings have risen pretty much in line with their productivity.
Women's earnings have risen in parallel with their productivity.
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Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
Magnates are not rich.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Kahn did a five-part series
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Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
It is possible that Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
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Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.
Time reports inaccurate information about the IRS.
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Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous.
Starr's virtues have a negative side.
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Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore.
Thompson is virtuous.
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(Just ask New Kids on the Block.
They think you should ask the Grateful Dead.instead of New Kids on the Block.
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The winner's curse also doesn't apply when there are many identical items being auctioned off.
There are a number of very similar items available at the auction, and the auctioneer rapidly prattled them off.
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Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people.
Barry thinks drugs should be legalized
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There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.
Taking drugs at 60 years of age is not that common in America.
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But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.
The museum was unconcerned about the controversial works of art that were on display in its large, open venue.
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Figgis' camera is probing and alive, so that even when his meanings are laughable, his images remain allusive and mysterious.
Everyone loves Figgis' photos.
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Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...
The individual who got into this quagmire is acquainted with Tim
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But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair.
It takes a strong person to buy a wonder boy recliner.
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
The girl told Sawyer she was scared because men with guns were at the apartment.
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Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks.
New online applications emerge frequently.
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(Note to Hollywood Try to hire someone who looks like Lillian Hellman to be your husband's personal assistant.)
Hiring someone who looks like Hellman is a bad idea.
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An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos.
The Negroes in the story are poor
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By sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a sensitive and tasteful show about a trashy subject, says Newsday 's Linda Winer, the production achieves only banality.
The production is well-respected by an overwhelming majority of morality experts
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A year ago, when News Quiz debuted, Slate was free.
About a year ago, Slate had a cost.
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In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
Kodak had expended a lot of energy trying to win
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That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxe...
Kevin Phillips described the emerging Republican crowd as anti Bobby Kennedy.
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Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).
The women's rights activists openly acknowledged the opposition.
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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 wool blanket.
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2) An elderly Milwaukee couple are soliciting women to conceive and bear their grandchild, using frozen sperm from their dead son.
The dead son left behind room-temperature sperm
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John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that.
John McLaughlin's show lasts 30 seconds
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If the first lady's job description no longer includes being first, then let's lobby to create a new post, the last lady--or the latest lady.
There are expectations of what the First Lady should be doing.
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Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.
Hebburn dressed poorly
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This is certainly not democracy, but it's not totalitarianism either.
People enjoy more freedoms under totalitarianism
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We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.
The cabinet members under HST, were loyal to a fault.
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D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, part-time congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well.
People are going to side with Schumer.
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There isn't really anything on the other side.
There is not much on the other side.
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Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.
Some have stated that perhaps every website should only follow the laws of its home country.
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Asahi Shimbun also reported that the Japanese National Personnel Authority is drawing up regulations to try to stamp out sexual harassment based on a new report defining what kind of behavior is inappropriate.
Asahi Shimbun was charged with sexual harassment.
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The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.
The Encyclopedia of New York only includes history after 1940.
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Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation.
Starr fought off the linkage.
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I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.
My issue is something that will just go away on it's own.
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Is it Simhat Torah again already?
Simhat Torah is an annual Jewish religious observance.
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Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12.
Most songs are several minutes long.
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As a result, they avoid the concussive head wounds that kill boxers--and the long-term neurological damage that cripples them.
Wounds to the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain kill boxers
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Yes, our parents had many of the same sexual traumas we did but, no, we don't want to hear about them in detail.
We don't want to hear about our parent's past traumas.
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Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.
Incomplete statues that are works of art can be better than if they had been finished.
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recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep.
Trump needs to be tried for perjury.
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A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.
The Independent Gay forum is run by intelligent people.
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Igave a lecture on the American economy in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month.
I spoke in Israel in October, describing why North America has the greatest economy.
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(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.
The Asian crises is still impacting Americans
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By the 1820s and '30s, most states were allowing all white men to vote (before that, they had to own land), and President Andrew Jackson was leading his famous war on the national bank.
Black men voted in the 1820s
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[W]itty popular science that you enjoy ...
The popular science lacks wit.
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promises one month of free e-mail support.
Support is free for a year.
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But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.
The museum's interior was large enough to house controversial works of art.
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In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.
A foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and may have more than that to spend
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But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.
Kennewick Man has no DNA
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The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples.
The global environment is improving every year.
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Bloom glides over her motives.
Bloom has motives for joining the things she does
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Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films.
She will be a secretary at a multimedia publishing company after resigning from The New Yorker
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The test for Putin, says Berger, is the economy, stupid.
Berger once said that Putin has to do well with the economy.
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But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.
He stands to lose a lot more if he buys at a margin.
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The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.
Audiences love Living Out Loud
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I am at play right now.
They are at a play right now.
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