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But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.
Rips appears ready to address the invitation to competition
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No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.
05/06/98 is the last day to turn in ballots.
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An Englishman who trained as an anthropologist before going to work for BBC Television, Barker clearly made up his mind about his material before his cameras began to roll--so it's no surprise that it feels prechewed and predigested.
The material for the BBC Television was made up by Barker on the spot.
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His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season.
Slate publishes content regularly during election season.
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The technophobic This is what we get for relying on gadgets.
Phobias are groundless
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And as for Hillary, forget it.
Only count on Hillary.
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( Goodfellas ? Fuh-get about it.)
Fuh-get about it is unrelated to Goodfellas.
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
New forms of social organization tend to make people stay with older forms of association.
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Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.
At least 1 famous director has attended Morehouse College.
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(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)
Philip Weiss kept his cool.
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Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97.
My daughter worked at Slate in the nineties.
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But marketing people are the worst offenders when it comes to wanting to add new features, generating loud choruses of NO even from otherwise enthusiastic developers.
People of marketing want to incorporate mild new features.
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The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.
Shoddy thinking is not apparent in The Third Wave feminist's third book.
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Pepper and Blanco have conferred with Bush campaign officials in Austin twice since mid-August to discuss their ideas, according to sources on the campaign.
Bush's campaign has yet to discuss ideas with outsiders.
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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 reported that Janet Reno became confused by the computer system in her office.
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Unfortunately, mine were no less vocal in their objections to being kicked out of our bed at those ages than when they were infants.
it is bad to let children sleep with parents
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Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime.
What you said seems as useless as a one armed boxer, dude.
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Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border.
American superhighway traffic is something that will always be efficient, no matter the circumstance.
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The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
There are a lot of stories floating around.
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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 tried to shape Muslim groups to be more similar to Prophet Mohammed's Arabia.
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When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace.
De Niro fails to possess a signature grimace.
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The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
We're already bouncing back so the bullish can relax.
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The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.
London broke a record for newspaper sales because of the scandal.
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And it's not that they don't know any.
They were oblivious to everything.
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Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.
Storr makes large claims for these paintings.
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The cover story profiles a day trader who learns his financial fundamentals from the Web and trusts his feel for stocks.
The day trader refused to learn from online sources, instead preferring traditional schooling.
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He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.
He quickly identified a number of highly technical problems with the experiment.
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In retrospect, though, two things seem clear.
With the passage of time, two things became clearer.
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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 an under 18 scholar.
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The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.
The Vatican is a gay-rights leader
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The drive to find and eat food was integral to the survival of our early ancestors.
Our early ancestors depended on searching and finding food.
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You know, it's not a bad idea to close the windows when it rains.
If it starts raining you need to close the windows.
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Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.
PrintSmart completely outperforms WebRecord
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White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters.
White House aide Sidney Blumenthal disclosed everything he knew about the Monica Lewinsky affair.
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Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?
Bradley voted to send overwhelming force to the Persian Gulf and now regrets that vote years later.
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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 unable to define what a sexual relationship is.
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Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away.
His assistants, who were cold-eyed, preferred to visit the battlefield before the corpses were gone.
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Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.
A lot of speculation surrounds Albright's past.
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Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice.
The creation of the Office of Special Investigations has stopped unlawful crimes.
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Our powerful, multipurpose computers will continue to become even more powerful, but as they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--their appeal will be limited by their price.
As they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--our powerful, multipurpose computer's appeal will untethered by price.
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Wealth would indeed be moved around, some people enriched, and others would be financial losers.
Wealth would remain as it is right now.
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Hence our use of Hanukkah rather than Chanukah.
Chanukah has not been used in a long time.
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I do know that a couple of mornings with the Mach 3 has just about wiped the smirk off my face.
The author is not as confident or cocky as he was.
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sadistic (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). A few critics take the audience's boos as evidence of New York opera-goers' conservatism.
The opera got a standing ovation
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But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game.
But the supply-siders are quite accurate when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game
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South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority?
Hollings and Thurmond stayed in the Senate into their old age.
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They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.
The password is long.
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And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me?
Jesse Helms disagrees with my viewpoint.
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The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?
The memory of all of it is not clear.
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And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.
Jesse Jackson went on a trip in Africa with the president and Maureen Dowd.
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Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous.
Seattle is home to many software, book,and coffee companies.
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Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
The Whigs insulted their likely allies and lost them.
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It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous.
Everyone disliked Regis and his presence was unwanted by the group.
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Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary.
Sheen wont perish as expected even if he doesn't become healthy.
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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.
Less than a dozen people have died since Russia began military operations there.
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Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?
The majority were against this new anti-missile insurance policy, they feared that it could reignite the Cold War confrontation.
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Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid.
Geoff does not enjoy reading the Cantebury Tales
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But for the role of spiritual guru to a candidate with a charisma deficit, he seems like just the guy.
He was a great choice to be the psychic teacher for a person who lacks a strong personality.
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The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.
The story was written about a Kubrick movie
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' That is said scornfully or dismissively, says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center.
Ambrose held a leadership position at the University of New Orleans'
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The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.
The New York Times reported that HMOs are coming to pass.
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Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.
Stores will be carrying an Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger soon.
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This time, they were looking for a candidate who knew how to speak the language of love.
They wanted a candidate who understood love.
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The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.
The psychologist Gordon knows how to con others.
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But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.
The Wild Bunch is about unhappy criminals
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The pose and the prose of journalists have changed since Ben Hecht's The Front Page . Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called journalists.
Ben Hecht's The Front Page was widely read and very popular during its time.
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Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.
Buchanan chooses his words carefully.
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Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis.
The financial crisis would not have been as bad if not for hedge funds.
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Is that wrong?
The author has their suspicions, but does not have enough evidence to say for certain.
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But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part.
The error effected other people.
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The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference.
Israeli policy has been consistent.
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I am ready to redeem him!
He deserves to be redeemed, and I deserve to be the one to do it.
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No doubt there would be other occasions that clearly met the standard where intervention was unrealistic.
You can for sure have an intervention in the other occasions.
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At his 1977 trial, Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years for obscenity and for engaging in organized crime.
Flynt was part of the mafia.
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(Heston's softness on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.
Heston represents the NRA.
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Russian mothers traveled to Chechnya, pulled their sons off the front lines, and brought them home.
The mothers traveled by car
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Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.
The children who receive extra help are twice as likely to become self-sufficient
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Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks.
Packet switching has some downsides.
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
By increasing German domination of European fiscal policy, the pact will encourage fiscal responsibility.
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Since Yugoslavia's disintegration, Franjo Tudjman, a right-wing dictator, has exploited Croatian nationalist sentiments.
Franjo Tudjman took advantage of Croatian nationalist sentiments
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I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.
The school offers free lunch to the underprivileged students
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The Los Angeles Times told readers that the real news was the wall-to-wall press throng at the news conference.
The press conference had high attendance.
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The retreat of that deck is a century-long process, but it can be stemmed.
The deck that is in retreat is undergoing a month-long process
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As she has become more self-sufficient, she has become more interesting.
Her self sufficiency has made her more private.
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The judge agreed there were extenuating circumstances because both songwriters had been inspired by old blues music.
That judge is bought and paid for; our boys in Jersey got him wrapped around their fingers
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I am ready to redeem him!
He should be redeemed, and I am ready to do it!
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When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.
Stewart intends to grow his audience.Jefferson
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Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.
Wolfe made a portrait.
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If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government.
The president will be angry if he vetoes that
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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
Rockefeller is well known for giving his total wealth to the poor and homeless.
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' That is said scornfully or dismissively, says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center.
Ambrose had no idea who Brinkly was.
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Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.
The postal network is very successful.
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They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.
I got accepted into the world of conservative journalism.
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He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.
He didn't support his bastard son
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Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.
Albright was made the UN ambassador in 1992.
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It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support.
It offered reportage that failed to chronicle the otherwise, the bad, and the good
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But that decree did not have the power of civil law behind it.
The decree has overwhelming legal support.
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Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.
Reporters often quote Bill Bradley's comments about his faith while running for office.
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But marketing people are the worst offenders when it comes to wanting to add new features, generating loud choruses of NO even from otherwise enthusiastic developers.
Marketing professionals understand the process of development in regard to incorporating new features.
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I think he perceives our friendship as being stronger than it is.
He wants to end their friendship.
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