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The Supreme Court began its new term.
The Supreme Court was dismantled and ended.
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Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.
Leger's ideas about machinery are inseparable from his ideas about women.
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He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley.
He does not actually want to run
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into prose of crystalline clarity and grace, it is ...
The prose is written with clarity and grace.
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Gays should come up with a word for their own committed relationships.
They believe homosexual couples should not be allowed to adopt
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Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their authenticity and ends in bowdlerization.
over fishing and global warming has resulted in a boom with regional cuisines.
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John Conyers, D-Mich., have used the Hale case to call for Starr's resignation.
Conyers is from Michigan
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I wonder if we actually disagree, or if my solutions just didn't occur to you.
You didn't consider my viewpoint in any way.
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The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and...
League bowling has shifted to ad hoc bowling.
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That about marked the end of Nash's career as a mathematical genius.
Nash had a PhD in mathematics
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Yeats wants to leave his traces/ On Munster grass and Connemara skies.
Yeats wanted to leave his traces on Ireland.
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But, come to think of it, she does look a bit pale.
The female was sick and dehydrated.
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Reply All, our experimental novel-by-e-mail written by three anonymous authors in three different cities, moves outside the subscription wall for a while, beginning today.
Three well known authors wrote an experimental novel by email that is moving outside the subscription wall today.
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Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.
Price gouging comes with popularity.
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Chances are that if you know she's running around, it's likely your brother does, too.
Chances are that if you know she's running around, everyone does.
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A better explanation is that males' reproductive fate depends more strongly than females' on competing when they are young.
Males' reproductive fate depends on competition.
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If you would like more information, you should go to the site that is actually handling this www.rtmark.com.
RTMark has a website.
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When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer.
The computer is large
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Teacher of the Year Andrew Baumgartner is the kind of educator who has delighted his kindergarten students with a wedding for Sleeping Beauty, complete with limousine and cake, teaching them, I suppose, that nothing is worthwhile unless it is entertaining.
The kindergarteners are all five years old.
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An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification.
Xinhua is a news agency based in Germany.
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Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants.
Lewinsky wore 20 layers
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She is frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she suspects of plotting to murder her.
She is never frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she never suspects to be plotting to murder her.
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(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.)
The source of the FEC disclosure is unknown.
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According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.
Because she was able to stay unconcerned in all matters regarding the president, Clinton gave Lewinski a wide berth.
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Nonetheless, Ehrlich's book was treated to a 21 st anniversary reprinting in 1997.
The 21st anniversary reprinting of Ehrlich's book was a tremendous success
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Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant!
The pope exclusively attends Catholic mass.
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Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.
U.S. authorities were behind Diem's assissination
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Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.
Levi's are ugly and people hate them
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The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.
The defection was helpful to the tobacco industry
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The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.
Jess Gupta is a failing scholar.
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Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government.
The economy is prospering under the socialists
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The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor.
Kennedy was not a high-achieving student.
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But skeptics suggest a darker that the Lippo fee was a payoff to Hubbell to keep quiet about Whitewater.
The Lippo fee was paid directly to Whitewater to publicize it's details.
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I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.
breaking the peso commitment would result in a massive burden.
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Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
They didn't get enough sleep.
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Intimations of his own mortality turned out to be premature.
His death was a complete suprise.
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suic...
The formative was restricted
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You want a recipe for healing?
Someone wanted to know the recipe for the delicious cake.
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We know, of course, whose dreams Tom is a character in.
Tom is a romantic figure in everyone's dreams.
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If there is a cultural civil war going on, the Mediaphiles--led by Wall Street--have routed the 'phobes.
Wall Street leads the Mediaphiles.
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Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!
The Scientists are telling jokes.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Grains of the World was successful
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When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large.
Pollsters talk to a sample of the population at large.
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The former does seem to explain the latter.
The latter is an explaination of the former.
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Chavis and Farrakhan both argue that Christianity and the nation are incompatible, and many predict that the 49-year-old Chavis will ultimately succeed Farrakhan.
Farrakhan wants Chavis to succeed him
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A renaissance of sociological research in the United Kingdom, as well as the fact that Prime Minister Tony Blair's intellectual guru is sociologist and London School of Economics Dean Anthony Giddens.
Tony Blair trusts Dean Anthony Giddens absolutely.
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Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.
Jackson was had a son
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So what if all the negatives are lost?
The undeveloped photo sections were beautifully shot, but are now forgotten to time.
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The White House Web site's theme of the Supporting America's Families in Times of Distress.
The white house only Features Families portraits.
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Whereas fashion photography--in the '50s as always--aimed to arouse active lust for new goods, the clothes in '50s movies were so thoroughly surreal as to look quite unfit for normal wear, even if they were waitresses' uniforms or girl-next-door dresses.
Lana Turner was fashionable in '50s movies
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Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.
The WSJ article loosely connected Peter Knight to the Clintons
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If I write a new diagnosis in a patient's chart, I have to indicate what I plan to do about it.
As a physician, I am always able to suggest appropriate treatment plans for my patients.
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Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.
Pollock adds more color to his paintings, getting rid of his color concealment, which he previously used.
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I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.
One man waited before cutting the foreskin off his son's penis
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It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg.
We know he tried to get help from Catherine Oxenberg.
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Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children.
His motives were questioned.
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Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras) has a wild-man intensity--part Ezra Pound, part Jerry Garcia--accentuated by Close's one-time experimentation with a radiating circular grid.
Samaras sometimes painted using radiating circular themes.
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Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
Chicago is the worst offender
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To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average.
Contacting the engraver after ordering, making changes will delay your delivery to a later date.
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These AUs, usually identified by the facial muscles that perform these various tasks, are the tools used in What the Face Reveals . (To look at a few examples, click here and here.)
What the Face Reveals depends on AUs which draw on facial muscles.
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For two earners each making $23,350, Alterman is serendipitously close to the mark when he asserts a marriage penalty of $1,001 a year.
Married couples do not pay an extra penalty.
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His skepticism and short fuse, which once seemed so radical, are taught at the Actors Studio.
He has a longer fuse than he did previously.
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Starr was putting his own guys to sleep.
The guys were wide awake.
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We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.
We only spoke of one disease in describing the syndrome.
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The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
Liberals hate the show.
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For sure, however, Microsoft has mainly been restrained by the knowledge that any crude use of its power would indeed land it in court.
Microsoft wants to avoid being in court
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We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means black bile), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.
Some people are cynical about the world.
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Click Start , then Find , then Files or Folders , type *.dll , then hit Find Now . (Make sure your hard drive is selected in the drop-down list in Look in .) On my computer I found 1,230 .dll files.
1,230 .dll files is a lot of files.
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However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.
Popular music is the only thing they listened to.
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Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a
Boswell never correctly identified what a Hypocondriack is.
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Virtually all the fans with whom I have spoken over the years (quite a friendly bunch, actually) consider the absence of big wrecks, injuries, etc., a key component of a good race.
Racing fans do not like to see drivers injured.
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The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.
A part of organized crime run largely by Italians is over as we know it
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His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.
His humble nature prevented him from speaking about his accomplished pals.
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Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
The police will investigate.
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Pouring their hearts out to reporters is the only therapy Republican politicians can get.
Most Republican politicians are actually pretty moderate
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This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer.
In the past you kept more money
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Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife.
The man once said he cherishes his significant other.
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Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.
She belonged to that culture in the past.
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I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset.
Boris Shub has passed away.
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Even Graham's earliest confessions of incompetence are refuted by her father's transparent scheme to groom her for some top slot at the Post . After she graduates from the University of Chicago, he arranges a job for her as a reporter at the San Francisco News , and afterward hires her as a Post editorial writer.
Graham admitted to being incompetent, but her father foiled her plan and groomed her for a top spot at the Post.
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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).
Arendt is known to be anti-feminist
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In 1984 Charles Murray wrote, in Losing Ground , that government programs sap the initiative of the black population, creating feelings of dependency and entitlement.
Black people have supposedly learned dependency.
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If he becomes a serious threat, Livingston and other GOP leaders will make sure to stop him.
He intends to become a serious threat
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But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest.
Those who advertise in the magazine won't see a return on their investment.
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Last year he tried and failed to invoke the War Powers Resolution for the Bosnia mission.
His strategy to pass The War Powers Resolution was successful.
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Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.
AT & T refuses to allow workers to be married to each other.
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a) Had an adulterous affair with a young intern.
The lovers had a deep respect for marriage.
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As the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies the century, says Time .
A lot of people do not consider immigrants as great thinkers.
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Newsweek 's ninth health cover of the year warns that E. coli food contamination is more common than is reported and won't be eradicated with simple beef recalls like the one at Hudson Foods.
Hudson Foods has never had an E. coli contamination.
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A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
A dentist's primary capacity in the past was to fill in teeth and cast dentures.
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The cover shows Johnson, a bland-looking man in full business attire, on the porch of an all-American home that looks a tad too small to be his.
a bland-looking Johnson in full business attire was placed on the cover
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The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry.
The House Judiciary Committee has not yet convened and will postpone the discussion to hire new lawyers until the next session.
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The group of student donors who collectively gave $200,000 to Clinton used different designations when contributing an additional $100,000 to him and others.
The students are all progressives.
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Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket.
A bow tie only makes it stand out more.
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(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.)
The source that disclosed the failed donations worked for the FEC.
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Keyes' answer didn't precisely address the question, but which was more interesting and enlightening?
Keyes' response was unsatisfactory to the audience.
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At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.
Martin Amis and Bellow were well-acquainted.
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What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.
Medicare is suffering.
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Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).
The disease process is not yet understood.
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Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.
slab of steak
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