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As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in ...
Arthur C. Clarke paid to have sex with young boys.
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Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace.
Microsoft must follow the ordinance of the marketplace.
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Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.
Hersh's information is nothing to worry about.
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While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site.
I enjoyed your site.
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A tightly wrapped head, with encapsulated eyes, nose, and mouth, doubtless suited the publicly shrouded female of antiquity, whose intelligence flowered wholly unseen.
A female of antiquity prefers to be shrouded with a tightly wrapped head.
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Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?
Big banks were naive
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
He has evidence that others are figments of his imagination.
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Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments.
Dr. Dean Ornish said that love was a powerful way to cure ailments of the chest.
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But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.
It is customery to give gifts to each other for only 20 years.
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Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.
D'Amato and his greasy hair are takin' the next boat back to Italy!
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As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be.
Big Trouble is much smaller than it needed to be.
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In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA.
In the later part of the twentieth century, fiscal conservatives supported NAFTA.
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Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.
Inflated profits are rightfully eroded no matter what.
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It is quite likely that you are suffering from the Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.
You are probably being affected by Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.
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Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection.
The Secret Service protects the president.
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This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.
Measured inflation not being active cannot be explained by invoked covert productivity increases.
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And there--in no small part as a result of that history--it has found itself with very little leverage.
It will gain leverage in the future.
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Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.
Even without suffering, children can be permanently damaged.
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For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.
carpetbagger charges are not as relevant today
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Should we reward him for keeping us out of war?
Engaging in wars is so popular in this country, that some states have declared war on other states.
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And you have made other people happy, as well.
Your existence puts many into a clinical depression, difficult to recover from.
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The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.
School vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and abstinence education were all part of the proposals.
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Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.
Programmers are furiously debugging old software.
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Is this simply the nature of status--the rich will always find a way to distinguish themselves from the poor?
The rich are well known for living among, and being quite friendly with, the poor.
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In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.
The raccoons that the United States imported from Japan as pets have started to cause problems throughout the country.
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The only standard by which news organizations feel comfortable evaluating a policy is success or failure, not right or wrong.
News organizations assess policies according to a right or wrong standard
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And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan.
Reagan's vampirism required constant treatment, so he was unable to see anyone during daylight hours.
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Who's winning the war over the draft?
The pro-draft side is winning
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Songs like their biggest hit, , are sense-less but skillful pastiches of classic Beatles moments.
They have smaller hits that are not Beatles ripoffs.
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Today's Papers is sorry that the Journal wasn't curious enough to find out the average age of those CEOs.
The average age of the CEOs was 60
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He's calling all hands on deck.
He kept to himself.
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No, it's something more amorphous, like, Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated?
They would rather ignore everything around them.
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It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.
Women are treated well at the workplace.
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Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP.
The Post and ABC lie consistently.
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Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.
Hillary Clinton's essay was published in Time
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But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
Drugs are not distributed without caution.
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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
I feel completely ashamed, debased and demoralized by all of this.
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know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,
its agony to depart when you want to stay
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Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.
Rothschild was a loving wife.
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On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults.
Some states have new laws passed that treat juveniles the same as adult criminals.
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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 recorded his travels for publication.
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It takes a man to stand.
Men can't stand
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They do not clearly condemn as racist the actions, sometimes violent, that white ethnics in Chicago resorted to in the 1960s to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
Chicago whites welcomed blacks politely
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Can you believe this?
There isn't a question.
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(The Yankees have a 12-year, $486-million cable deal.)
The Yankees have a long term contract.
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Mir's life span has been extended well past what it was designed for, as Russia cannot afford a replacement.
Russia launched Mir in 1986
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Dr. Richards, can you write a prescription for the tabloids?
Dr. Richards is a medical doctor
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President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Clinton met Netanyahu in Miami
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But the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty ), has a thing about bringing macho men down to earth with a thud.
The screenwriter brought macho men down with the thing.
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Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.
They have tried making the form easier to use.
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Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress.
I went to a retail store, where I met a clerk who was wearing a summer dress.
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A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision.
Having a near death experience increases the change of having spiritual visions.
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Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.
Reich spoke to the National Association of Manufacturers
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It was a pleasure working with you.
Working in the office with you has been great.
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Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.
Journalist wrote bad things about Mitchell the former Tx governor.
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Critics' principal target is the company's policy of pegging doctors' investment returns to profits at Columbia/HCA-affiliated institutions.
HCA and Columbia are unaffiliated with each other.
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Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.
People are more reliant on their own opinion than that of critics.
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In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.
Steve Brill has done something scandalous.
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But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does?
Eastwood has an on-screen persona
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One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant TV with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for don't shoot, I'm a reporter.
The backwoods of rural America can be very dangerous
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The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army
The disturbed individual was forcibly enlisted into the Israeli military.
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Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.
Wolfe's portrait is worthless.
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To her way of thinking no nonessential spending, no desire to possess things, can ever be innocent or morally neutral.
To her a lack of desire to obtain matter isn't innocent.
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The hard truth, I would argue, is that this way of seeing the world is itself distressingly soft.
It may be that your stance must be hardened.
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In his frantic manipulating to get hold of Linda's tapes of Monica, he phoned me in New York and remembers it as
Manipulation was the only way to get the tapes.
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Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle.
The Hubble Telescope was a minor invention
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In theory, for-profits are equipped to do it through greater efficiency--economies of scale, easier closure of failing operations, and better access to capital.
Access to capital is easier for for-profits to obtain.
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Instead of an invisible hand pushing the economy toward full employment in some unspecified long run, we have the visible hand of the Fed pushing us toward its estimate of the noninflationary unemployment rate over the course of two or three years.
The Fed just looks at effects over the next couple years.
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Bill Bennett said Newt Gingrich is cozying up to the left and should change course or step down.
She disapproved of Newt Gingrich's approach
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On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)
The company works with postgraduates for new hires.
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e) Some or all of the above.
None of the above was the only selection available.
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Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.
People are becoming more familiar with the Bible's English
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If increasing democratization is the test for access to the international-trading system, China has flunked.
China has not increased democratization.
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You don't need to play Mike Wallace and demolish Leuchter on camera.
Mike Wallace and Leuchter probably don't get along.
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The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them.
There was a rift in East Asia before they lost their way.
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Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries.
Nonmember countries of the United Nations can't be hired as verification inspectors.
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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 were all from men.
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Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen.
An entire fishing boat's crew was taken by the 1991 storm.
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The original Seattleites--the NW Indians--have become so Californian they're Nevadans.
The original Seattleites are sad that they are losing their roots and customs.
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Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.
The soldiers suffer if they can't get medical treatment.
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As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in ...
Arthur C. Clarke is a British writer.
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If you missed the links within this review, click for the of how critics dismissed a whole genre of social novels written by women ...
Critics are dismissive of women authors with regard to social novels.
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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.
He wants to show that he cares about social issues.
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Are we talking about dozens of people or thousands?
Shalt thou testify thousands of mere mortals, or yet much lower numbers as the subject of our discourse?
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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.
Clinton was helped out by Morris' thoughts
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A victory by Deep Blue would indicate its superior computational skills, but not a capacity for conscious thought.
There was a good chance Deep Blue could win.
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I maintained throughout the Reagan years that appearances was a dodge for accusers and malefactors alike.
Reagan had accusers and malefactors.
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Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only interc...
Traditionalists are looking forward to multiple changes to the World Series
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Religious people are finding evidence of God in recent scientific discoveries.
Religious people ignore scientific discoveries.
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Questioned about China at his press conference, President Clinton admitted for the first time that his constructive-engagement policy hasn't improved China's behavior, but he maintained that it will in the future.
President Clinton's policy was a great success for US-China relations.
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The sportswriters were tapping on their laptops.
Sportswriters were writing stories about the game.
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By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs
Macroeconomics is a necessary part of effective global monetary policy.
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I think our country deserves a president who, when he makes a mistake, is willing to acknowledge it and willing to learn from it, because I believe that the presidency is not an academic exercise.
The country deserves a president who is willing to acknowledge and learn from mistakes.
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Fred Thompson (who will chair the investigation), and campaign reform.
Fred Thompson is in charge of the investigation.
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What's different about the late 1990s' version?
the early 1990s' version is just as good as the late 1990s' version
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Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest.
Ginsburg's client is innocent.
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is that it sometimes finds those answers too predictably.
Some answers seem to be too easy to find.
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It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did.
Frank was humiliated on a live tv show when he groveled in front of the entire nation.
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Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.
The nation anticipates little action from Trump
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(And we have reached a degree of liberation that permits me to think of these potholes as Mayor Barry's potholes without feeling guilty of racism.)
The City Leader is a member of a minority race.
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