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His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
His child Bill was an Art teacher at Princeton.
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Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, will be abandoned or dropped at the pound.
More than one will be abandoned at the pound
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Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.
He trusted Johnson with his secrets because they had known each other for a long time.
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George W. Bush takes both covers.
Bush was unable to secure the second cover.
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Slate .) But distinguishing between the two markets undermines Microsoft's thesis that IE and Windows are integrated.
IE and Windows can work together in different markets.
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But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propens...
The Barro offer emphasizes showmanship
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Outside the world of pop psychology, it is likely to engender skepticism.
It may find some adherents in the general public.
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Most people would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff.
Most people would rather take the risk of a hypothetical payoff than keep what they have.
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But what does it mean?
People know what it means
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Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.
Great, unfinished statues are abominations that are less artistically interesting than a completed statue.
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Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion.
fuel and communications networks can be used to support an invasion.
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Ut's was not the only camera present
Multiple cameras were at the scene.
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You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.
The actor is looking too thin
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However, we put no claim on the other, lesser characters.
No one cares about the lesser characters.
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What Debate Shows Do When There's No On The McLaughlin Group , Pat Buchanan enjoys a furiously heated nonargument with Mort Kondracke, which reminds Pundit Central of Alfred Marshall's question about which blade of a scissors does the cutting.
Pat Buchanan is boring and little excitement to the show.
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McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.
McCartney's album occasions sold more copies than his previous albums.
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At least, Chatterbox thinks that's what Johnsen said ...
Chatterbox is certain about what Johnsen said
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Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as pets, that's a personal choice.
After successfully domesticating animals, it's a personal choice to use them as pets
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Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.
Udayan Prasad directed a British film.
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Ways to ward off Peter Lorre in M .-- Andrea Carla Been in a Coma Since 1932 Michaels
As a result of the hospital bills, significant financial stress has been inflicted upon Andrea Carla's family.
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They say things like This is the coolest generation ever.
This generation is the most "with the times" generation in awhile.
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People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.
Looks are an important part of first impressions.
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Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.
New insta-museums specialize in cultural tourism.
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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).
He works for a publication
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A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.
The Fed will express boredom with the market, wanting to avoid becoming involved.
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The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.
The cover story highlights how great U.S. relations is.
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An article argues that liberals should oppose the National Endowment for the Arts on the grounds that art does not need federal subsidies.
After reading the article, liberals agreed with the argument
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I've been hit with a restraining order prohibiting me from finishing the sentence.
He finished the sentence even after getting a restraining order.
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If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?
big-government philosophy is unrelated to the fact women are disproportionately pro big government.
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A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him.
Chinook is not the all time greatest checkers player.
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Theologians agree that prayer reinforces faith even when God doesn't intercede.
God Doesn't need to actually do anything because faith itself is improved with prayer, even if unanswered.
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I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns.
The prayers of the priests and the nuns can be heard by the masses.
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Life aboard ship is tough
No one ever complained about life on a ship
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.
McDonald's employees are protesting and demand a higher wage
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First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.
If both sides are angry at us we must be doing something wrong.
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Meanwhile, Russia is debating whether to cut its conventional forces and authorize first use of its nukes as a substitute deterrent (as the United States will still do).
Russia and the US are the best of friends.
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The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.
People have been saying The Dayton Accord separates the country into two for years now,
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The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)
The Joy of Cooking book is loved by lots of people.
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Apparently it's easier to make a mouse talk than to come up with something interesting for him to say (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ).
He is boring to talk to.
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The strength of the spot is that the fabric of its images converts the actuarial into the nearly spiritual, and raises numbers--money--to the level of moral values.
The performance has been used to generate money, which is now as important as our moral values.
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Doctors have given a generation of such children normal sex organs (i.e.
Children do not receive medical care.
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When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing.
Famous men could be stigmatized for leaving their wives for younger women, which could damage their careers irreparably.
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When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.
Hearing that Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence makes you wonder.
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It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.
The food is a meat product.
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Back then, gold was $35 per ounce.
Gold had a different price in the past.
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Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.
A candidate ditched the Republican party to run solo in an election.
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After all, if an American publication like Slate finds itself subject to Britain's Official Secrets Act, this turns the Internet's promise of freedom on its head.
Slate magazine is very popular in Britain, and undergoes no censorship process.
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Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.
Changes in thought caused The Great Depression.
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Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.
A cease-fire was instantiated in 1990.
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But there is a more fruitful way to look at He is the first high-profile newspaper man in a long time who actually believes in newspapers.
Everyone loves the newspaper, especially the rich
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Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.
Wilson was unmarried.
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When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.
The benefits will outweigh the costs.
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America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.
The middle class was weaker in the 1990s.
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The critics I spoke to, however, offered credible arguments.
The critics I spoke to, however, offered far-fetched arguments.
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You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.
The actor needs to lose 150 pounds to reach his ideal weight
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As we know from the Oscars, it's the sanctimonious stuff that gets rewarded.
The Oscars are usually predictable.
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An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top.
Fallon Community has performed well in this survey.
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(So, while she was dragged into the scandal against her will, it was her own loquaciousness that made the dragging possible.)
She was quickly dragged into the scandal against her will.
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All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt.
This is not the final score, others will drive the total up.
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I remember seeing a piece by Michael Kinsley some years back on the absurdity of punditry.
Michael Kinsley is a writer.
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Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.
Sobriety is the recommendation after getting the liscence.
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This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics.
There is no end to the number of questions these guys can come up with.
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Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse for telling falsehoods in the course of raising otherwise legitimate issues.
Bennett never lies
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It was in the Yale Law Library, after all, that he first put the moves on Hillary Rodham.
Hillary Rodham has visited the Harvard Law Library.
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The speech was long and, I can now see, rather platitudinous.
That speech was so short I had to play it back in super slo-mo
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My high-speed modem is mine, so your intellectual property must be mine too.
They bought the high-speed modem in order to run several servers.
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And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
Baryshnikov feels good when being held in the arms of his father
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And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.
According to SurfWatch, filters are unable and unhelpful in protecting management from liabilities.
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Often, it doesn't even equal two.
The total is one.
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
Some Russian Israelis live in Moscow.
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The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings.
Ratings are becoming the most important factor for network decisions.
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The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.
The film goes on to be very entertaining and absorbing.
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I have filters that keep me from being subjected to that sort of language in my e-mail.
Filters help from seeing naughty language.
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I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.
I loved all Michael Kinsley's work, except for his article on scams.
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Unless, of course, when it comes to Internet shares there is no sensible middle.
Internet shares have gone up recently.
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The U.S. has never backed down.
The future could lead to the U.S. backing down.
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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 all social novels.
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The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as
They critical points were factual.
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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 became threatened
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The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.
Henri Paul was executed on death row.
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This suppression is an outrage, but our policy must be more sophisticated than mere indignation.
Indignation alone will stop the suppression
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And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure.
Lewis and Said are completely strangers.
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When a trompe l'oeil shaving brush and a match turn up later in the show in Magritte's Personal Values (1952), they have an oneiric suggestiveness quite in contrast to Murphy's flat factuality.
The shaving brush and match are out of character for Magritte.
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A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.
All media sources are promoting drugs in the war against fat.
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Maybe, just maybe, if he were sued again ...
He is immune to lawsuits.
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That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.
In order for this to work, a west local sales manager will probably get you to do something that will help someone else profit.
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Researchers in Boston are already implanting fetal pig cells in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients.
Parkinson's disease patients are receiving fetal pig cells in their brains by researchers in Boston.
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Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits.
Ellison is a well-respected author.
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Slate BiasServer TM applies this concept to the magazine You'll register your views just once, and Slate will thereafter recognize your browser and serve up opinion and analysis that reconfirm your prejudices.
Slate has a great user interface for it's online portion.
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Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...
The individual who got into this quagmire has many choices available
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Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.
Thurmond still believes in his racist beliefs.
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Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no cuisine.
Mintz gives lectures.
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The democrat at the helm of a museum, a symphony orchestra, or a publishing house tries to expand his audience while challenging it.
The leader of a symphony orchestra spends most of their time trying to expand their audience.
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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 Sunday school teacher.
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Timothy Noah's image of the standard old public building () seems to be derived from Mayan or Egyptian pyramids, Greek theaters, the Roman Coliseum, and Notre Dame cathedral.
Tim Noah likes the architecture from ancient civilizations.
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As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him.
Grove bankrupted Intel as soon as he led it.
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The Times claimed that the number boycotting never reached a critical mass that would have threatened the integrity of its list.
The Times had to abandon the list.
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In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen.
The expose on masher Sen was good.
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Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money.
Galoob's stock took a hit in the market.
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That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not.
Chinese people share these values with those around them.
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