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Given his track record as the District's mayor, you might want to sell your stock in that company.
The company has stock.
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Besides the CBS suit, it won $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today after the newspaper reprinted the I Have a Dream speech without permission.
USA Today won a lawsuit against CBS.
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It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour.
The ceremony was obviously not postponed, because no one listens to Linda Ashland.
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Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw.
the serious conceptual flaw could have dire effects
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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.
Phones do not work in cars.
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Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.
0.08 standard is a poor option.
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He looked at her and said, Monday morning.
He refused to state the day of the week.
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Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
It's not just that broad's persona that's fake; God sure didn't make that big ol' backside of hers
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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 little faith his Charity would go to the right place.
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Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?
They are asking if you have heard the saying "We're all grown-ups here?"
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c) Evidence of suborning perjury in the Kathleen Willey matter.
The Kathleen Willey matter has been resolved for so long that new evidence is irrelevant.
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Encryption is OK because its authority is created in my very own machine.
I've been working on some great new encryption algorithms to better protect my data, but it is already rather secure because it generates its own authorizations.
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To track all of this month's four-star movies, check out the TV-Now website Four Star Movies February TV Schedule.
Find free good Movies using TV-Now.
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GS's Saturday Evening Post articles eerily suggest words we were to hear 50 or 60 years later.
It was mysteriously strange that the articles suggested words we heard later
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In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
The author watched a lot of Johnny Cash movies.
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Exploiting the newly dead sounds ghoulish, but the medical establishment rationalizes the practice--at least in private--by saying that it's better than letting interns fumble on live patients.
Interns can make mistakes on live patients.
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Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last.
The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) are a raucous read.
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Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm.
Time says the charm and lecherousness leads to a failure to properly portray the president
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How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice?
Sun Ra never asked anyone to give up anything.
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead.
Deng Xiaoping mentored Jiang Zemin
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If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan.
The average fan will always be able to access stadium seating.
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Physical modesty is not a Baldwin trait.
Baldwin is quite physically modest.
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But they would get farther in their agendas if they would give a little respect to conventional marriage by letting heterosexual people keep the word marriage to themselves.
They haven't gotten anywhere with their agendas.
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(As a variation on this theme, one can imagine a strategic schooling motive, whereby the least-accomplished children get extra schooling, in the hope that they will become more interesting to converse with.)
If someone is not interesting to talk to, it's because they didn't do very well in school.
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Another school of thought contends that faith and reason occupy two different realms of knowing.
Religion and science are widely considered to be one and the same.
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Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.
U.N. military action will be safe from veto by China.
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But I think he misses an important Though the conflict may not reveal a previously hidden incentive (as in 2), it may create one.
The conflict definitely created a hidden incentive that was not there before.
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Perhaps people who work in group settings where some hand is always out can start a reverse Limit forced-march giving to $2.
Workers have a limitless supply of money to give to charities.
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It'd be nice to know more about that trend.
It will be impossible to know more about the trend.
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Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship.
The party needs him to stay in order to succeed.
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The addition of Chrysler may help change that approach, but how remains to be seen.
The addition of Tesla may help change the approach.
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Membership in this group would be defined in a possession-neutral way.
It is possession positive
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While it makes no sense to worry that you are living well at your grandchildren's expense, you might legitimately worry that someone else is living well at your grandchildren's expense.
You may worry that people take advantage of your grandchildren but you do not worry when you take adavantage.
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On the same day, another Albanian paper, iKoha Jonei , published some impressive statistics about corruption in the Albanian government.
The paper that published statistics has high readership
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More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it.
It is a crime to establish not do something about a diagnosed condition.
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Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is tolerated by young people.
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In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.
She ended up drowning
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Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects.
The book is a bestseller.
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As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.
Sir Peter Hall wrote of Tony Blair's hypocrisy of funding the arts.
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He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.
The sound bite was created very expressive.
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Cheap oral hydration, for example, has been studied and used to treat dehydration for diarrheal illness in developing countries.
Oral hydration is a cheap means to treat dehydration in developing countries.
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Anyone who knows, please feel free to leak it to me.
Somebody knows what I want.
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We've come a long way since ragtime and radio, hillbilly and race records, big bands and showtoons, 45s and triple concept albums, MTV and CDs and horror-core.
Showtoons are the future.
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But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.
She was unable to laugh off his behavior and was, instead, deeply humiliated by it.
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Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes.
Newsweek lacks any self-awareness and avoids responding rhetorically to itself.
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You were a former police officer, and yet you got caught setting up and dealing methamphetamine .
the officer was fired for dealing meth
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These holes now mark a generation of which the parents cannot confidently say, They'll grow out of it.
Parents of every generation have always left their past experiences behind and progressed beyond them.
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But any hope that Democrats can capitalize on Starr's non-North performance dissolves immediately after lunch, when Democratic committee counsel Abbe Lowell questions Starr.
Abbe Lowell is on the Republican committee counsel.
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As federal employees, postal workers are not allowed to strike and, if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached, contractual disputes are resolved by binding arbitration.
Postal workers can always strike if they are treated unfairly.
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You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
Realistically, you can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness.
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Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine.
A simple add/remove procedure can completely remove Internet Explorer from any computer.
contradiction
A special place in the Liberal Humanitarian pantheon belongs to New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis.
Anthony Lewis is a Los Angeles Times columnist.
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The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.
Catholic men who engage in sexual activity in which one man releases his semen into the anus of another man found the shift in emphasis insignificant
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The Unjust Clinton's moral theory, point by point, as expressed in his testimony.
Even though the label 'the most fair' could not be applied to him, Clinton's whole moral theory was in his testimony.
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Gore, like Clinton, has often used cultural issues such as abortion to make the GOP look extreme.
Gore, Clinton, and the GOP all agree on how to approach the issue of abortion.
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An exclusive report reveals that controversial feminist Naomi Wolf is advising the Gore campaign on how to win the women's vote.
The women's vote was enough to secure the election for Gore.
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That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!
The speaker feels that it will cause a blockbuster of a sensation.
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Unlike the Europeanists, the Liberal Humanitarians have turned hawk for moral reasons.
The Europeanists have also turned hawk, but not for moral reasons.
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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 asked to see the president alone.
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The wrist supporters I ordered were black neoprene with a metal brace and a flexible magnetic band.
I ordered a wrist
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Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Karen Finley's show was praised by critics
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Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.
Buchanan is saving some of the more trite wordings for later.
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George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.
The commemoration was attended by world leaders
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That possibility has to do with the rapid-fire e-mail exchange format of Slate 's Book Club in which it appeared.
The book club enjoyed reading their current book.
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But that decree did not have the power of civil law behind it.
The decree was not supported by law.
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As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.
The deal is going to make a bunch of money
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Since all these are changes in how we live, not anything innate, we have to conclude that what we are describing here are effects of environment, not genes.
The changes affect our lifestyle
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If you don't like reading on a computer screen, for example, there's a special version of SLATE that you can print out in its entirety, reformatted like a traditional print magazine.
A small percentage of users perfer printed this over the computer screen.
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Every time he turns up on the scene--and even when (as in the case of Kathleen Willey) he doesn't--people What's he doing here?
The vast majority of the time, he shows up.
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THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE.
Medical personnel say she has six months to live.
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This suppression is an outrage, but our policy must be more sophisticated than mere indignation.
The author is upset about suppression
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It was actually a luxurious 20/80 cotton-poly blend.
The blend is 20 percent cotton.
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Burn How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet ,by Michael Wolff (Simon & Schuster).
This is Michael Wolff's debut novel
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You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
It is impossible to fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
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Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
She is a genuine and sincere person
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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.
He is a professional artist.
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The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.
The described study was performed in this past year.
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Such coverage is good Your Live at Five NewsTeam covers Election '96!
Five News Team is struggling with politics.
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It would do that other thing--succeed.
There is another possible outcome.
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And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.
LSD and Cocaine have been used for medical reasons.
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Instead, it's the company that owns the name that dictates the terms.
People can use a name however they want without repercussions from the company that owns it.
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are laughing at us saying if we make it thsese [ sic ] stupid ass Niggaz Will Buy it.
This was the first instance of racism they experienced together.
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He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them.
The sunflowers bloom all year long.
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PinochetAid concert.
A concert with Pinochet's name attached.
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(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.
The SATs consists of multiple rounds, comparisons are a big part of one of the rounds.
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Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.
I have a job where I need to master Linux.
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But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.
Determining what creates happiness is complicated.
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In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.
Sawyer gave a press conference about her part in the situation.
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We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave.
It is possible to overcome hate
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He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate.
He identifies as an Evangelical.
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Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull).
In the story Ellison used horns to symbolize sexual desire and a velvet curtain as a metaphor for evening.
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I remember seeing a piece by Michael Kinsley some years back on the absurdity of punditry.
Michael Kinsley refused to do work reflecting on the absurdity of punditry.
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a) Had an adulterous affair with a young intern.
At least one of the pair was married.
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Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize
Banks need to reorganize
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If I lose, then it's a reflection on the whole family.
If I lose it's a reflection on the family
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Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things.
Walcott wrote The Bounty.
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The publication doesn't report where Mrs.
The "Text" in unintelligible; I cannot make sense of it.
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For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.
Albright has many survivng Czech relatives.
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A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
43,519 ineligible students incorrectly received subsidized loans.
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Reed takes his place in 2002.
Reed had no place before 2002.
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