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The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.
Chaelotte was created to incentivize residents very close by only.
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Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.
Turned a month long pastoral visit into a month of self-promotion.
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Impeachment is twisting the presidential race, too.
Impeachment will effect the outcome of the race.
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Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory.
He hit every pitch into foul territory.
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I'm from a small country [New Zealand], but I don't see what we are doing here as a threat to our sovereignty.
New Zealand is a large country.
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And at a time when ad people all seem to be drawing from the same palette of colors and styles, creativity and distinctiveness are, oddly enough, not synonymous.
It seems like one ad agency creates all of the ads since they look so similar.
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George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold.
Custer's left pinkie is still considered very valuable.
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The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory.
The students created signs for their protests.
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Having done so, they finally agree to marry but with She has privacy, freedom to pursue her own life and friends, control over money, etc.
She values her independence
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By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?
The author of The Search for Fecality died from cancer.
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Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course.
There was a lot of coverage of Clinton's Whitewater troubles in his first term.
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Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, cozied up to Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as un-American agitators who used their alleged power to attain their parochial ends.
Hitler cozied up to Jews
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They do not clearly condemn as racist the actions, sometimes violent, that white ethnics in Chicago resorted to in the 1960s to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
Chicago whites had a significant Polish population
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By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal profess...
A silent majority supported the Vietnam war and Nixon.
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Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate.
Shes not a journalist during the Clinton era
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This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women.
The male executives are all married to gorgeous women.
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Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.
a lot of fried chicken
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A considerably audible tsk, tsk I send you, Slate.
You did everything just right, Slate.
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complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.
Everyone got along
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Words are now rarely carved in stone
It is possible to tell how long someone's statement will continue to hold water.
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Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!
The topic of sex is highly sought after by this group of people.
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So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
The Bill Clinton paradox is well known.
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During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.
Suby was given a lot of infant formula on the plane ride.
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Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.
Peter Knight was directly connected to the clintons through in person dealings
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In 1995, Willey took revenge on a lover named Shaun Docking by faking a pregnancy and miscarriage and asking Steele to lie about it.
Willey was never pregnant in 1995
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Time says that space tourism has a new former astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz Aldrin currently frequently travels to space.
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Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
Smith's push of the measure through the House might seem like progress.
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Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.
Advertisers target paid subscribers, spending premium fees to reach them.
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I hear you, she said by way of introduction.
One can hear her.
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And there's no dramatic payoff with the chillingly satanic tobacco company president (Michael Gambon) whose threats first make Wigand think about going public.
The president of the tobacco company is a bad guy
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But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes).
NATO is looking for new potential members.
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TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy.
Online ads are proven to be more effective than TV ads
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Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.
Moyers has an aggressive journalism style.
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Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.
Monet eventually tired of his garden.
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Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes.
Newsweek responded to its own statement with an emphatic affirmation.
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Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?
Lee Harvey Oswald's passing is indisputable.
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Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as pets, that's a personal choice.
After successfully domesticating animals, using them as pets is forbidden
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The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.
Everything old is new again.
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Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.
Clinton believes that foreign aid from the US will lead to advancement in human rights
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(Aniston, by the way, might want to compare notes with The Enquirer says that she too fell victim to a freak rear end accident this month when an overzealous deer nipped her hindquarters.
The deer was friendly to Aniston.
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The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd.
Smithson and Judd aren't usually picked.
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Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless.
The defense lacks significance
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As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.
Ames was either a monopolist or one of a number of vendors.
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Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).
Bill Baird is not a feminist.
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And if there were, any elective late abortion--even by induction--would be wrong, though D and E and partial-birth abortion would seem especially cruel.
D and E abortions are very humane.
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And then there's everyone else in the city.
The city is a large one.
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Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.
Hersh's information could become verifiable in the future.
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You've got to get Tripp to give him the go-ahead.
I was told to tell Tripp that he should tell the other person to stop and stay where he was instead of going ahead.
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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.
The book is over 300 pages long
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You might end up with such a brave battalion of heroes that when a grenade lands in their midst, there is a competition to see who gets to jump on it to save the others.
The heroes, who led the fight, protected the others during the air raid.
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An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.
A counteroffer was not made by Blitzer.
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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.
If the watershed had not been developed the residents would not have had to evacuate.
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Why, if Isikoff's so bad?
Isikoff writes light news articles.
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Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.
Christopher is known around town as a mobster.
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www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ...
The website lacks a place for people to click on.
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This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Vic Fazio is the House Democratic Caucus head.
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Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant?
Zapruder was mentioned, and Livingstone proved to be a plant.
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Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
There are laws that regulate the making of sausage.
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The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.
UPN's new lineup contains sitcoms
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Newsweek also runs an essay from Clinton-loyalist-cum-moralist George Stephanopoulos, who urges the prez to come clean.
Newsweek, an American weekly news magazine, refused to run an essay from George Stephanopoulos.
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This is the administration's favorite description.
The administration has a favorite description.
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We always knew they had it in them.
We had eternal knowledge that they had it in them, and others knew it as well.
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Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.
Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader are friends.
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The ossified state of European telecom monopolies would stun American Webheads.
The American telecom industry is more highly regulated than the European telecom industry
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Newsweek 's cover package compares Watergate and Flytrap.
Newsweek's cover package is focused on two scandals
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The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines).
The site is still at the address that Direct Hit found to be visited by the most people.
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Wes Cooley, R-Ore., lost his seat last fall after falsely claiming a Korean War combat tour--as a member of the Special Forces, no less.
Wes Cooley said he was in a war when he wasn't
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But Will He Bring Back the Football Team?
The football team is gone.
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Yes, said Emanuel after the HRC speech.
Emanuel attended HRC.
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(Thank you.)
The author wishes ill will upon his target.
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The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.
Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys attract car thieves.
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A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques.
An editor claims she was pushed to retire after writing a critical review
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By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education.
Business and education revolutionized primarily because of the internet.
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If you missed the link to the refresher on harassment law and its history, click .
The subject being covered is harassment law
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The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.
Starr did not want to accept the plea bargain
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So we call impotence erectile dysfunction, baldness hypotrichosis, and so on.
Baldness and hypotrichosis are different things
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We think these defects aren't fatal.
The defects are pretty serious.
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The Louis XV story reminds me of one of Ronald Reagan's favorites--about the Muslim philosopher who said that the king came to the throne with high taxes and departed with low revenue.
The Louis XV story is completely different than the one the Muslim philosopher told.
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recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep.
We saw that Trump committed perjury.
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Both mags also cover hot, new drug Ginkgo biloba.
Ginkgo biloba is a new drug listed in some articles.
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Some might even take a sketchpad instead, or a paperback volume of Homer.
Some might even take a night off instead.
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Still, the tip of political e-commerce is beginning to poke up through the Web's surface.
Political e-commerce has long been one of the Web's most prominent sectors
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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.
Televising nationally is more work for the same amount of effectiveness.
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You can catch the final nine hours this evening.
The final nine hours are postponed until tomorrow night.
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The 1) They've agreed to give peace a chance.
War is eternal
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He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses.
He bought a ring
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Lonely and anxious to be used, the condom grows so weary of the wait that he throws away his Either the condom's owner is abstinent, or he's careless.
The condom's owner doesn't have sex.
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Other news from 1) British Prime Minister John Major announced that a new national election will be held May 1. Polls show the opposition Labor Party leading by nearly 2-to-1.
The Labor Party has fallen so far behind the times it will never catch up.
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This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
Justice Lewis Powell seemed to to offer an explanation for affirmative action in the past.
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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.
Gore has anti-labor supporters.
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After sampling more than 35 different toothpastes, my researchers and I came to some conclusions about taste.
There are less than 30 different toothpastes.
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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 not well liked by either Simon or Lyons but is popular with the public.
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Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape.
It was impossible to afford real avenues of escape from vouchers.
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A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.
The Klein bottle's interior is the same as its exterior.
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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 be limited by price.
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The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.
The rest of the justices have turned against him.
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Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.
The bad baritones are high ranking officers in the American Army
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His career took the shape of a palindrome.
His career peaked and then started heading downhill.
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a) Starr's top deputy had spent much of the day briefing these people.
It took all day for the deputy to brief the people because they were taking notes.
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In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31.
The 10$ off special ends at Midnight on Mother's day.
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