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The agency can't really ensure their client's behavior, but you would know that it had done its very best to choose only well-behaved children.
The agency only hires delinquent children, to be rehabilitated.
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De Kooning himself seems to have left the room.
De Kooning is here in the room with me right now.
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So--contrary to what we're told by orthodox economic theory--two individuals with exactly the same preferences and exactly the same opportunities can adopt dramatically different attitudes toward saving.
Individuals with the same preferences and opportunities always have the same attitude towards saving
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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
Americans were angry and ready to start a war due to the excesses of their legislators.
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Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium.
There are a lot of investors.
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For the first time, the standard of living for the nation's poor (although not the very poor) is rising.
The standard of living for the very poor is better than ever.
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What happened to Rocker's right to free (albeit despicable) speech?
Rocker has a right to free speech.
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Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton)...
Newsweek believes that Starr will win his case because his evidence is strong enough to sway a jury.
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(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.
Slate Dialogue, had a really rad story givin' rise to the fact that the Red Sox would win out.
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But let's get Does the diagnosis of sex addiction make sense?
Sex addiction can be a confusing diagnosis.
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Lifeboats have been constructed for the top dozen employees.
The best of the best have access to life boats in case of an emergency.
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In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen.
The expose on masher Sen was released early in 1991.
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The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations.
THE FISA was for noncriminal aliens and deporting them.
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Clinton's partisans have linked Starr to Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and other bogeymen.
Starr linked Clinton to Jerry Falwell
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A spate of explicit parental responsibility laws passed by states and communities over the last couple of years give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention or undergo counseling with their kids.
Over the last couple of years, judges are making more parents pay for juvenile detention.
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It happened here about 2.1 billion years ago.
There are fossils here to document the event that happened 2.1 billion years ago.
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Read him his rights for what crime?
They knew what crime he should be read his rights for.
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One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence.
Lobbyist's, who buy politicians, would be incentivized and get a government bonus when bribing politicians.
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First, we don't know that Maxwell would have found another Without Joan, he might have struck out that night.
Joan could've done it without Maxwell.
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No, because this is something that's private.
This is something that is private among a group of friends.
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Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
This plugin is meant to be used by others to add new features.
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Nemesis Hunt refutes the slack-jawed Novak, with the computation that 5 + 4 = 9 and therefore half of Starr's deputies are not current DOJ employees.
Novak received his jaw characteristic from a car accident.
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Disney's Tarzan is not only post-imperial, post-racist, and post-classist but also post-masculine.
Tarzan is among Disney's top films.
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The appeal lies partly in the weirdness of his obsessions (scantily clad little girls with penises), so pungently suggestive of an imagined world, says New York 's Mark Stevens.
New York 's Mark Stevens says his obsessions are weird.
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Every time he turns up on the scene--and even when (as in the case of Kathleen Willey) he doesn't--people What's he doing here?
He is always around and shows up, as though he were omnipresent.
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The Sports Network probably attracts more attention than it deserves.
The Sports Network probably attracts less attention than it deserves.
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Mind you, not just something wrong, but something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession.
You can be sent to hell if you die without confessing your sins.
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Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.
They mean getting high on weed.
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Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?
Companies do not quit while they're ahead.
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A more honest summary might be We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops.
A more honest summary is needed.
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High praise for The New Yorker writer's stories about disaffected youth.
The stories are being considered for a Pulitzer Prize
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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Starr has no impact in public opinion on Clinton.
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Even his pit bulls restrained themselves.
The pit bulls were not initially self-controlled.
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But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...
Asians are only found in Canada.
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The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.
Takeover mania of the 1980s led to widespread bankruptcy.
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The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.
Compulsory voluntarism is corrupting in every way.
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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 newspapers have gone out of business due to the internet.
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But the Post made a telling omission here.
An ommision was made by the Post.
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A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson.
John Anderson lacked the ability to say sarcastic comments.
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The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994.
The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating
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The striking thing about workers' comments after the vote was how many of them mentioned the possibility of the company shutting down its operations.
The workers were angry about the company possibly closing.
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And can anybody remember Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis-playing physician?
Renee Richards is a known transsexual.
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As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.
The curriculum skips over the period of starvation
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Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?
French wine is better than Italian wine.
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Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book.
The speaker asks others to envision a book on their website.
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Same-sex marriage would have no direct effect on the rights and obligations of parenthood.
A child can be raised by couples of the same sex without any downsides.
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He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine.
The man feels free, but in reality seems like they're still attached to the slot machine.
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Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch].
He looked at his watch while contemplating perjury.
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We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices.
The scheduled e-mail distribution service has been the same since the initial launch.
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
Workers at GM show continuous improvement on their job performance.
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President Clinton welcomed Yasser Arafat to the White House and criticized Israel for expanding Jewish housing in East Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat visited the White House.
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He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.
The members of the e-mail tree he created were entirely local
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Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910.
Doctorow's Ragtime is set in the past.
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Thanks a bunch.
No one is thankful.
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'Cause, like, I want a Miata.
They dislike sports cars.
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And recent Oscar winner Helen Hunt is determined to have a baby with or without her fiance, actor Hank Azaria, according to the Star . I'm going all-out to get pregnant, the publication reports her confiding to a pal, although it doesn't explain what she plans to do if Azaria refuses to cooperate.
Hank Azaria is very supportive of his fiancee in her quest of having a child.
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Or, instead, should we fight tooth and nail to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor?
Fighting to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor is important to our party.
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Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract.
Welles hoped to attract the vast, trash-movie audience.
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We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
we will always have a great time together.
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I have never given it a second thought, but recently people seem to be noticing my sneezing and commenting on it, some suggesting I see a doctor.
My sneezing is sign of serious illness.
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Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my singl...
God will bless me
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The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.
No other country helped
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Republicans have long demanded smaller government.
Republicans want a small government.
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Charles Schulz need not fear death.
Charles Schulz doesn't need to fear death.
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But are the jocks serving Bradley well?
Bradley is involved with chess players.
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But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.
The piece of the penalty owed is normally lower than thought.
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The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.
The Russian army was weaker than the army of the The breakup of the U.S.S.R
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Do I just have the capacity to eat doughnuts and hamburgers and broccoli?
I don't eat vegetables.
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Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.
Every nation on Earth is able to participate in the new currency.
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After all, they don't offer employees car insurance.
Employees fail to receive a car insurance offer
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Crazy Richard Nixon and All That Jazz , by Leonard Garment (Times Books).
This publication claims that Richard Nixon was the most beloved and law-abiding president to ever serve.
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Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ([t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending).
Libertarians think citizens naturally are ready to defend a good country
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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 are very curious about world events.
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The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good.
The West lacked wealth
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, the government--borrowing a lot of money).
The government borrowed money from foreign countries and now are in debt to those countries.
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In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner.
High school students went to a retreat.
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Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.
Coretta got the job because of her liberal values.
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It would be more true to say that Gopnik's need to see Picasso as a rascal deforms his view of Picasso's art.
Gopnik's view is deformed
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Reporters rely on neighbors to flesh out the characters of killers, but what, really, do neighbors know?
Reporters rely on neighbors to flesh out the characters of killers.
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Pollard handed over information about how the United States tracked Soviet subs.
Soviet subs were tracked by the United States
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Unrestricted trade will help U.S. industries in the first category but will wipe out those in the second category.
The US industries are safe from unrestricted trade in both categories.
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There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.
The scene that was pathetic led to angry debate
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But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism s...
Many of Doris Day's costumes were incongruous with the roles she was portraying
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If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.
Indexers are planting the seeds of their success by putting 20% of new mutual fund money into index funds.
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In a limited way, the Reagan speech served as guidance for his policies after he came into office.
Reagan made changes to his policies after being in office.
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Now economists are pointing out the unfairness of subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors while refusing to do the same for other professions, such as economists.
Not all professions received subsidies.
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[Hersh has] disassembled and obliterated his own career and reputation.
Hersh has failed in his aspirations.
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The vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public will, says Gigot--the people reject screwy ideas such as bilingual education.
Gigot says the vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public opinion and proves out his ideas.
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God knows he's prepared for it.
He is ready.
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Slate 's Web site might be at the moment, and how clogged your local-area network might be.
Slate's traffic is clear and easily running unlike your local network.
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Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement.
A Jewish settlement was going to be attacked by a high ranking police officer.
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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.
Said thinks there is a bias of Arab and Muslim culture.
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In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.
Vince Foster died of natural causes.
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In general, arts and cultural articles are posted early in the week, and newsier and political stuff is posted Thursday and Friday.
There are no news articles posted Saturday through Wednesday.
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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 characters in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are law-abiding
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The only figure to emerge untainted is Hillary Clinton, whose approval rating is 33 percentage points higher than it was before the scandal.
Hillary's situation was a blessing in disguise, helping her gain public approval while she mastered needlepoint during the scandal.
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It's a big week for women's health at Newsweek , too.
This recent issue of Newsweek only contains details on women, men are ignored.
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According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.
Reporting by The Washington Post states that Al Gore rejected Russian pledges of economic reform.
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Had Apple allowed Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, perhaps even IBM to build hardware running the Mac OS, it might very well have seen its software become the industry standard.
Mac OS is the industry standard
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But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year.
They cost nearly $1,000 a year.
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