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His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dala's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dala was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments.
Everyone in the Surrealist movement got along well
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Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy.
The main character of The Idiot is intended to be ironic to people.
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I can't remember if it came from the tenure committee or the gentleman's club where I used to lap dance.
She made good money working at the gentleman's club.
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Parents find themselves intervening to stop their kids from making bad deals with unscrupulous classmates.
Intervening in their kids lives is against parent belief.
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Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.
you can find people with similar interest online.
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In short, the place made Bosch look like a Methodist picnic.
The place looked like a Methodist picnic.
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Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.
The pageant organizers have participated as contestants in the past.
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Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.
Traditional scholars had a lot of problems with Foucault.
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Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.
Delivery varies when selecting Next Day Air packaging.
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With a bit of elementary mathematics and a lot of keen insight, Arrow was forced to a sobering If a reasonable voting system is one that respects unanimity and precludes flip-flops, then there are no reasonable voting systems, with one exception--the system that picks one voter and makes him a dictator.
Arrow came to a realization with only a keen insight and elementary mathematics knowledge.
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I remember.
I recall that situaiton
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As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be.
Big Trouble is quite large.
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Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.
Most societies formally ban adultery.
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This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal.
This is not fair
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But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results.
The painting technique seen here is a new one, changing the end result on the shape.
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But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf.
He asked her to lie down on the couch
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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 pushes the economy around.
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They celebrate the U.S. women's comparative innocence.
U.S. women's comparative purity will be celebrated in ther future.
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Ataterk was the founder of modern Turkey, which is no mean accomplishment (what have you done with your life?)
Modern Turkey was founded by a man.
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The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role.
Gore covered up Wolf's role because he is corrupt
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Time describes honor killings in Jordan, which comprise a quarter of the Arab nation's homicides.
Honor killings are the majority of the homocides in Jordan.
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Dole gave 12 hours of formal interviews and lots more time informally, in part because, as his press secretary Nelson Warfield told me last week, he likes Woodward personally.
Dole had a personal motivation to contribute more of his time than necessary to help Woodward.
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And they don't need to--the 13 missiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States have always been judged capable of hitting U.S. cities by the Pentagon (though China's difficulty in commercial launches casts doubt on the Pentagon's assessment).
China has 13 projectiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States
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Also on the Consider Your Options page, you can order SLATE to be delivered to your computer by e-mail.
E-mail is the only way to have SLATE delivered to you.
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Suppose all of SLATE's articles featured the authors reading their visionary musings into digital audio format.
Slate doesn't publish any articles at all.
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Analysts consider Jiang a clumsy weakling compared with Deng, and are debating whether 1) he will continue Deng's reforms or return to authoritarianism and 2) he can consolidate power or will be outmaneuvered by rivals.
Analysts are debating whether he can consolidate power or whether he will be outmaneuvered by rivals.
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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.
Chavis is 80 years old
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The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning?
Bill Kristol discussed Italy and Greece's view on ground troops while appearing on This Week.
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Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.
Privatization is just throwing your money away for no good reason
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Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.
As usual, his note was unsigned.
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The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?
The memory is distinct and not up for debate.
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Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.
Clinton is not interested in a sexual relationship.
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In March, he dismissed Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and replaced him with a 35-year-old political neophyte, Sergei Kiriyenko.
He replaced an experienced PM with a political rookie.
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True--but I fully grant that importance.
Granting importance is critical to the safety.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write,
O, how annoyed am I, when I of you do write,
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The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power.
Contrubuters disregarded the figure because it was powerless.
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It keeps doing that.
It has always done that.
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If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him?
The jocks are against Bradley for president.
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This book is not a road map for improving the American economy.
You will find a road map for improving the American economy in this book.
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However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.
Popular music isn't measured here.
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Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.
Conversations were had to solve most of these probalems.
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80 HK for a super-value meal and $6 HK for each Snoopy toy McDonald's sells.
McDonalds sell toys with their meal.
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She says Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift has gone beyond the call of duty to earn [her] presidential kneepads.
Eleanor Clift worked hard to accomplish each objective of her reporting efforts and receive the hilariously named presidential kneepads.
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He has thought it through, spelled it out, and told you who's asking it and why.
He knows the person asking.
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My kids after they graduate.
The author's children are attending college.
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As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.
Bradley's campaign does better with the Wall Street crowd.
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The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.
Patients who died taking Fen-Phen had pre existing conditions.
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Initiatives like community policing and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit appeal to all parties in the debate.
The Earned Income Tax Credit expires this year.
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But Said's fame outside the American academy rests on Orientalism , his sweeping account of how Western art, literature, and scholarship have produced a deformed, biased picture of Arab and Muslim culture in the service of colonial domination.
Western literature is excepting of all cultures
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As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.
As time passes memories of the holocaust fade.
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That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory.
New theories raise doubts about rat choice.
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Because the $50,000 prize to be announced July 29 is for the artist's whole oeuvre and not the work submitted for the show, I would award it, if forced to choose, to South African William Kentridge, who is known for powerful , many with anti-apartheid themes.
There is a $50k prize to give out.
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Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani.
Some Hispanic constituents liked Giuliani.
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Some might even take a sketchpad instead, or a paperback volume of Homer.
Some might even take a sketchpad instead.
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Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however.
Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work is well liked by both Simon and Lyons.
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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 was featured in BBC's documentary about Bellow.
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I think there's a piece there, Joyce.
Joyce is ready to play the piece of music.
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Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage.
Staying on the show is potentially harmful and dangerous.
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Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.
Demand for drugs existed down South
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Jesse Helms could not have demonized homosexuality more effectively--which, of course, is why he was pleased to draw public attention to the pictures.
Helms is against homosexuality for religious purposes.
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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.
Lucas Samaras uses only classical realist themes in painting.
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When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
The King Center was located in New York City, New York.
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The resistance literature often comments on Hitler's amazing luck, or his uncanny ability to sense danger; but the failures of the resistance might be better ascribed to the calculated unluck of the resisters, their own ability to sense danger and step away from it, and their overall minuscule number.
People resisted Hitler
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Would the story have broken if not for the Web?
The author is sure the story would have broken without the internet.
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
Very hot water is their habitat.
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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.
Charles Murray writes about government and black people.
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What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child.
The author is an advocate of prolife.
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If the wound to Eappen's skull was new, asked Scheck, why had scar tissue formed around it?
Scar tissue was present to the wound.
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I believe that your hearts will go on.
I trust that you are going to eventually move forward.
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Goodman's explanations of Jewish ritual sometimes veer from the helpful to the condescendingly overexplicit, as if she were writing for young adults.
Goodman is silent about religious rituals
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They're political.
It’s about covid
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Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.
Henry James wrote the novel he mentions in a letter in 1904.
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In Congress, where people think of themselves as underpaid, there's hostility toward Bill Gates based on the fact that he's got a lot of dough and doesn't share it with people like them.
Though they do agree that his charitable donations redeem him a little.
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He says, Who are these people?
He saw just one person.
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This is too bad, because Pokemon is undoubtedly much smarter and more charming than what will supplant it.
Pokemon will not be replaced.
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There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner.
The right partner is a subjective idea.
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Nudity on stage can be powerful, and is still protested, but not as powerful as the frightening glimpse I had as a child of Ethel Merman in Gypsy . Now, if you could get the ghost of Ethel Merman and the undead Mickey Rooney to strip to the waist for 10 rounds of bare-knuckle action, that would be truly frightening sta...
Ethel Merman performed in Gypsy.
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It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.
It is easy to form general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.
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Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article.
Talking reasonably about a post-colonial era in the age of multinational capitalism is the goal of the article.
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Thank you for William Saletan's brilliant analysis () of the war.
This is William Saletan's first analysis.
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But it's a heckuva lot more arduous to conduct, in effect, a nationally televised cross-examination than to spend night after night droning, So Ms.
The droning is done on national television.
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There are, to be sure, pivotal generational experiences.
There are experiences that are pivotal to generations
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It can be a bit like a claustrophobic small town, where your private life is part of the public dialogue.
talk skyscrapers are located in small towns
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The modern mistake is to think that important things must be planned, sponsored, reviewed, or licensed by the government.
The government that can plan things has everyone's support
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To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal?
Politicians recieve legal bribes all the time.
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You love it up here, don't you?
Being up high is preferable.
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What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?
Chemical weapons are safe.
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I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.)
The author says polluting the planet is ethically unacceptable
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The distinction between a maid or matron of honor and bridesmaids is usually a different bouquet and walking down the aisle first.
The matron of honor walks down the isle first.
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Rubin's relief for Americans has encouraged a moral hazard--an inducement for people to speculate excessively because they know the United States will rescue them.
Other countries look down on America for this immoral behavior.
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Hannah was recently spotted in New York wearing a hat with a star on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a T-shirt with--are you sitting down?
Hannah was spotted with a hat, while Kennedy was photographed in the Big Apple.
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FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.
The flood plains are occupied and developed.
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[F]rom the moment Cecilia Bartoli's vibrant Idamante arrives on stage, the performance takes wing, her luscious, tight vibrato perfectly capturing the adolescent trauma of the young prince, says the Independent 's Mark Pappenheim.
Cecilia Bartoli is a singer on the stage.
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It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.
Homicide by diet is a common cause of death.
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Not Homo economicus is not a central pillar of my faith--he is merely a working assumption, albeit one that is extremely useful in many circumstances.
Homo economicus is a useful assumption to have in your back pocket.
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The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father.
Stern is a father and husband.
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Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of.
Roosevelt and Truman's previous failed attempts were in good faith.
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They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
Terrorists have taken over an aircraft in the past.
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But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.
There aren't any evidence about the conspiracy theories.
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(Surprisingly, outdoor air pollution is not to It's better for kids to play outside than inside.)
Air pollution is not so bad that children should play indoors rather than outdoors.
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