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But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close.
He is incorrect in his statements about lawyers in America.
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After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.
Democrats provide more funding to the NEA than Republicans.
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The notion is ludicrous on the face of it.
Everyone thinks the idea is laughable.
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According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.
Mementos of Sonny have appreciated in value since having been found.
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, under the headline U.S.
The South China Morning Post had a headline titled U.S.
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Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward
It's improbable that Affirmative Action in its present form is the finest or even an adequate solution.
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Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.
Tom Shales raved about Kirstie Alley's performance.
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That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity.
It would penalize companies for efficiency and productivity.
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Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.
Sellers make profits.
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It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.
It is acceptable behavior.
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The key word is overall . The increase or decrease in any particular item not only does not, but cannot, produce inflation.
Inflation is impacted by the increase or decrease in a paritcular item.
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So does that of my fellow general editor, Nelly MacKay.
This organization has a single general editor
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George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.
The event was televised
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The company, which is now traded publicly, was started in 1980 by a psychologist named Stephen Gordon, who was restoring a Queen Anne-style house in Eureka, Calif., and found it maddeningly difficult to locate the period-style fixtures he needed.
Fixtures of the Queen Anne style are difficult to find.
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But nothing like this ever gets said.
Sometimes they say the right things.
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The already-outdated cover story wonders if NATO's deal with Yugoslavia will hold.
The NATO deal is still intact.
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Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.
Ordering Next Day Air means you will get your package in 24 hrs.
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He has already demonstrated his acumen at milking the confrontation with Helms for its maximum theatrical and political value.
He has shown his zest for maximizing value of confrontation.
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The race was notable for the last several laps, in which Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 190 mph.
Earnhardt pushed his car against the back of Gordan's car at a high speed.
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In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister.
Harold Washington is a single man
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Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
Time has been around since at least 1979
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notion of divine sanction for democratic values.
Democrats and Republicans hold different values.
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Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar.
Mike Walker lacked confidence in his prediction.
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If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey.
You can click here for a questionnaire.
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Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten.
Consumers do argue that history is best forgotten.
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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.
Todd is releasing a new piece on Sunday.
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If U.S. cities were abandoned tomorrow, would the survival rate of our public buildings be better or worse?
U.S. Cities will be around tomorrow.
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It would do that other thing--succeed.
It will fail.
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Signs of a renaissance of the handwritten word are here and there discernible.
The handwritten word is a forgotten and unused medium.
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Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.
A frugal view of time is viewed the same by everyone.
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Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.
After the prospects of globalization and technological change emerged, the bottom half felt happy
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A few years ago I was helping a neighbor thread tracks back onto his bulldozer.
My neighbor refused my help with his backhoe.
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Nearly 30 homosexuals are featured in prime time, but few shows are sophisticated enough to script love lives for their homocharacters.
There are more romantic storylines for gay characters currently than there were last year.
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How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?
Their grandparents are staying at their house
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The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.
The pictures are similar to the work of de Kooning.
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Luckily, he is highly placed, but I mean, how does one gracefully NOT contribute?
Despite being highly placed, he is not liked and welcomed by the group.
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
We are and always will be the moral majority.
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Best of category is a tough one here.
Best of category is easy
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Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.
Diversity goes a long way with investment.
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Which has a curious--and perhaps salutary--effect.
The resulting effect was very curious.
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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.
Evans and Novak frequented vacations together.
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Once again, a plea to Susan and Sylvester.
Susan and Sylvester got a plea.
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Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.
Boris needed to put his hand up to speak
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The ad displays information in a format similar to a stock ticker.
The display is made of paper.
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But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
Drug purchases are carefully vetted and audited to ensure compliance with best practices guidelines.
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In those circumstances, Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya might have written it.
Dr. Astrov wrote the text while at home during the night.
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Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency.
Alcohol is allowed in other rooms of the White House
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Burn How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet ,by Michael Wolff (Simon & Schuster).
Michael Wolff's book was published by Harper Collins
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Music critics complain about the computer's tin ear, but artificial intelligence experts are impressed.
Experts in artificial intelligence are not impressed by the computer's tin ear.
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The group of student donors who collectively gave $200,000 to Clinton used different designations when contributing an additional $100,000 to him and others.
A group of students raised money.
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By these criteria Kinsey fares well.
Kinsey fares well if this criteria is used.
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The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.
Old slang can be cool now.
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Makes you want to watch Sunday's game just to see how it turns out.
Sunday's game has been cancelled.
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But what will Daimler get?
It’s unknown what Daimler will get
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When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.
Winnie the Pooh was a real Bear who sang.
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Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.
The Times gave the actual address of the brothel in the article.
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A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.
Time magazine does not think the media should promote drugs for losing fat.
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Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race.
Upon reflection, they realized that issues of skin color (otherwise known as racial issues) comprised the majority of their observations.
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And now, judging by News Quiz responses, these wan titans are barely portrayed at all.
The wan titans are everywhere on the News Quiz responses, there is hardly anything else in there.
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This is an assumption about demand.
A belief about demand is nonexistent.
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I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.
Betty Curry had little interaction with interns.
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Nigeria then sent troops to challenge the coup, evidently to restore the president and repair Nigeria's corrupt image abroad.
The president is against the coup.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans.
Jim Nicholson believes anything is justified to win an election.
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So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth.
Hong Kong receives zero benefits from China's developments.
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Michael Kelly's WP column about Ken Starr vs.
Ken Starr was written about by Kelly, skewering him like a BBQ chicken.
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However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly.
Babies age quite slowly.
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And the editor heard Jacob's plea.
The editor will help Jacob.
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He recently purchased 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that is the site of Camp Nor'Wester, a venerated children's summer retreat.
He recently sold 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that was the site of Camp Nor'Wester.
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Instead, they looked the other way.
They looked the same way
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COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns.
Cokie says machine guns
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Unlike the Europeanists, the Liberal Humanitarians have turned hawk for moral reasons.
Liberal Humanitarians are dissimilar to the Europeanists in that they have turned hawk for moral reasons.
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In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.
There was a Black Power movement.
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I'm prepared to say what is desirable, he tells him.
I'm ready to talk
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The main reason the media have greeted Jack Kemp so rapturously isn't his ideas, his optimism, or his compassion.
The media embraced Jack Kemp because he was handsome and articulate.
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In the New York Times Book Review , Nicholas Lemann praises the Ms.
saying he could never have done it without her.
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Before long, however, many of these projects went bust, and Nelson had to turn to his family for financial assistance to ward off bankruptcy.
Nelson's family helped him during tuff times
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I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated.
My concern doesn't affect others.
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For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.
Clothes with words on them are popular.
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Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.
The models are very thin.
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And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can.
After billing insurers, hospitals failed to turn a profit
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All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt.
Every one of the players received a point including Gigot.
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When the American diplomat who supervises the international peace monitors in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre, the Yugoslav (i.e.
The American diplomat in Kosovo accused Israeli police of the massacre.
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Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
K is convinced that chaos would most certainly ensue if perjurers escape prosecution.
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Don't faint when it happens.
Many people lose consciousness when things like this happen.
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Jenkins hasn't quite figured out how to shape her narrative, which is full of episodes that are there because they actually happened but that don't have a payoff.
Jenkins' figure has a full shape
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c) Evidence of suborning perjury in the Kathleen Willey matter.
Kathleen Willey, who is involved in a court case, is guilty of perjury.
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Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).
Springer's impassioned excuses were the key to getting the audience to understand his values.
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The civil rights movement was great.
civil rights have improved over time.
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The game of payback never ends.
Once payback occurs the game is over.
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He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
He took a break before he expressed his thoughts about the soliloquies
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Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine.
Thompson is still Hunter S. Thompson
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Ultimately, what's most important about Disney's struggle to turn ABC around is how impressive it makes the company's management of its own franchise look.
Disney is struggling to turn ABC around.
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It's a major omission, then, that we never see those schools or the kids' interaction with their stable, well-to-do Beverly Hills counterparts.
Children from Beverly Hills have perfect lives.
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It is not that I expect anything practical.
Nothing practical happening would be a disappointment
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But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.
His opponents are Republicans
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He should mind his own lesson.
The boy is quiet and introverted.
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But on all these, the basic principle is the same.
These books could not be any more different; they stick out like sore thumnbs.
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With the glorious exception of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V , there is nothing more demoralizing than an inspirational address.
Every quote, every passage of Henry V's speeches have been absolute failures.
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Powell, on the other hand, had a marriage, a child, lovers (male and female), loyal friends.
Powell was never married.
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