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At MIT, where he had been given a teaching job, he hardly bothered with undergraduates and humiliated graduate students by solving their thesis problems.
He bothered graduate students and humiliated undergraduate at MIT.
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No, it'll be a grudge match between Reeves and Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, whom Reeves fired as the Broncos' offensive coordinator years ago for insubordination.
Mike Shanahan was fired as the Broncos' offensive coordinator years ago.
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. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw.
Neanderthals are known to be great artists.
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Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets.
The News is now available online and on television.
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This all happened in real life--although the Rockettes weren't the real Rockettes and neither was the choir.
The events involved dancers
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California Institute of Technology vaults from fourth to first in the magazine's annual university rankings . Its three-to-one student-faculty ratio is much praised, as is its annual spending of $192,000 on each student.
California Institute of Technology staff worked hard to try and improve the performance of all metrics.
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The Sports Network probably attracts more attention than it deserves.
It is possible that the Sports Network attracts more attention than it deserves.
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Where is beauty?
The speaker believes finding beauty is a waste of time.
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Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a cineplex (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).
Barton Myers worked on Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.
The two periodicals took on aggressively defensive posturing.
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
Spark is unique in wisdom, surprises, and technique.
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I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.
I gamble
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Most praise her for being able to hold her own, as opposed to noticing any genuine musical ability, and note that the album is far more pop-oriented than the drum 'n' bass and jungle she spins live.
Her style changes between live performances and recordings.
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Growing up to be Gwyneth Paltrow makes her more bewitching but no less blank.
She is less bewitching because she grew up to be Gwyneth Paltrow.
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If such evidence is present, return Kennewick Man to his rightful tribal reservation.
Kennewick Man has a choice to make himself about his reservation if evidence is existent.
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If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.
Klimt and Close's art differ a lot.
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Has the World Wide Web, which only appeared in 1993, failed us?
The World Wide Web appeared in 1993.
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Lifeboats have been constructed for the top dozen employees.
If you are not in the top performing employees, you do not get a life boat on the cruise ship.
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The more she's covered, the less people care about her, and the more reporters hyperbolize.
Reporters always exaggerate the stories they write.
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On Saturday, Mainichi Shimbun devoted its main editorial to Britain's new defense cuts, pointing out that Britain expects to save 141 billion yen on its defense bill over the next three years, while Japan's defense expenditure continues to rise.
Britain's new defense cuts were highlighted in the main editorial.
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The two men have been joined forever in an intimacy deeper and more complex than that of blood or sex.
The two men have been joined forever in a complex intimacy.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
There are less than two pencils.
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In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.
The casinos saw a rise in new gamblers.
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far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry
The lyrics are based off of death metal.
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A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.
Stephanie Trotter spoke with the candidates with a sense of curiosity.
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To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy.
It was secure
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Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.
Researchers are looking to waste time and collect paychecks with these trials.
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Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.
Kerensky missed the February revolution
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Earlier, Novak actually ask ed Carlson if he could interrupt!
Ed Carlson asked Novak if he could interrupt.
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In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over.
She wrote an autobiographical account of her life.
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I see a method to his madness.
All the madness is random without influence from anyone.
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The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said.
The heir became a British citizen.
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At this point, I imagine that readers have three objections.
After this point, it can be concluded that the readers have less than three objections.
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Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.
He sometimes liked to add encouraging words to the recipient of his letters.
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It's not what management theorist Tom Peters sees as the company of the future, a floating network/crap game.
Tom Peters specializes in management.
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Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he re...
Charlie Sheen was ready to go to rehab.
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Comments like these make you wonder not whether Bush and his friends ever used cocaine, but whether they ever stopped.
President Bush still occasionally snorts Nose Candy with his friends back home in Texas.
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ATandT's plan, announced in February, to use wireless systems to offer local phone service has been widely dismissed as unconvincing.
It offers improved phone service
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The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).
At just 5' tall the bones were obviously female.
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It's true that many, many Jews will be killed.
The Jewish population will increase.
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The current tumult in Kosovo completes a circle for Milosevic.
Milosevic completed a circle.
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Didn't anyone remind them that Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan?
Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan.
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Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six.
The number equal to 1+3 is least evocative among the single digits
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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 was never in a battle as part of the special forces
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He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.
He made a declaration on both Capital Gang and PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer in 2001
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His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand.
Moyer talks to people on his shows.
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Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending.
The novel is a cliched depiction of a lawyer.
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But the Post made a telling omission here.
The Post laid everything out without omission.
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And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay.
There was no way to tell Jacob from his identical twin, Esau.
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The Easter spirit is A week after Time 's heaven cover story, Newsweek and U.S.
Time is an atheist magazine.
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Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.
Peter Jennings has considered working for more than one channel.
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There was a deeper The new ideas were immensely liberating, but at some point you can get too liberated.
Some of the liberating new ideas came from 4chan
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A sidebar says Monica combed Gennifer Flowers' autobiography for tips on how to seduce the president.
Monica read a book written by Gennifer Flowers.
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
Russian Israelis want to have close ties with Russia.
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Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!
Prudie is feeling calm and confident.
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The Post notes the deep disappointment in Malaysia over the no-show by President Clinton, who stayed home to cope with the Iraqi crisis and sent Vice President Al Gore instead.
President Clinton cared more about the Iraqi crisis then visiting Malaysia.
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Later, I thought the subject required more analysis.
I decided there was nothing left to consider, and made my decision.
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What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
Cooperation between artists and their characters is universally guaranteed
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And The Street Lawyer isn't a novel, exactly.
People consider The Street Lawyer to be a short story
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Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.
That Clinton is a no-good, lying, backstabbing, perverted, dirty rotten scoundrel
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A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.
Congress does not like to approve things for the chief executive.
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But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement.
Extreme improvement can be created by the onlookers themselves.
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Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it.
After an hour of work, I made the 20 bucks I needed to buy this rag
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If we focus on small problems that make headlines, we will ignore bigger problems that don't.
Problems that make headlines are not important.
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Founding editor = permanent voice in growth of Wired ! Move forward together!
The person who created the magazine will be with it forever.
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They end up on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired . They foreshadow the world in which we're all either symbolic analysts or hamburger flippers.
Vanity Fair and Wired decided to put them on the cover.
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They would need to maintain complete silence about it.
They took out an ad in the paper to advertise it.
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This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries.
there is no respect when it comes to national sovereignty of the foreign countries
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Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with o...
Businessmen today are respected more than the businessmen in the 1980s because they produce higher quality goods.
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Such an affair is improbable, but--take heart, Clinton-haters--it's not impossible.
Clinton is hiding the affair.
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Lauderdale at spring break--and notes that the vote for the Nixon inquiry was 410-4, not the 256-178 tally for the Clinton inquiry.
The four dissenting Nixon votes were only ceremonial
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
A man is dancing around.
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But it is easy to guess.
It is easy to reach an uncertain conclusion
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The most pervasive sign of Klein's brand of French post-structuralism, though, are his narrow ideas about pleasure and control.
Klein's views on pleasure and control are narrow
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Democrats, unwilling to take another beating, folded, voting unanimously for the bill in full committee.
Democrats voted against the bill because of the wave of support from voters across the political spectrum.
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Also, Newsweek tells the weird story of Jerry Stuchiner, a high-level Immigration and; Naturalization Service agent alleged to have sold passports to illegal Chinese immigrants.
He sold them to other nationalities
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They think Gates is stepping down-contrary to Ballmer's insistence that Gates is stepping up to his new job-in hopes of appeasing Justice Department warriors who want Gates' head.
Gates is remaining in the same position
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Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
whites and blacks have merged to be completely equal
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The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral.
There are over 10 objections to Dalmatian farming.
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 630 points in a week.
The Dow Jones will recover.
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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 now acts in movies.
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Even this distinction, though, is changing with the development of off-line software that automatically goes to the Web to retrieve material, and stores it on your own computer.
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, if this feature maintains uniqueness.
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Anyway, what would be the point?
We're not really sure what the purpose would be.
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They seem to think that junk food qualifies as their half of the groceries.
Junk food was missing from the groceries.
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Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.
Newsweek's article discusses learning disabilities in schools.
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Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.
Yugoslavia's economy was destroyed.
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This seems like increasing liberalism, but it's only encroaching commerce, less a commitment to free speech than a determination to sell paper plates, cups, and napkins for kicky Fourth of July fun.
The approach was brought forth by corporations interested in increasing sales for the upcoming holiday.
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Yankees, Cubs vs.
It’s football
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Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.
Nations must have a national debt below 4 percent of GDP in order to participate in the new currency.
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Newsweek says the future of the country may be riding on Powell's campaign to save at-risk kids, but doubts whether the general can persuade corporations to make long-term commitments to philanthropy.
These at risk kids come from Black and Brown communities.
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President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Two leaders assembled in America
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So out of 78 confirmed hypotheses, it seems that approximately zero are true.
All of the hypotheses were mistakenly confirmed.
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Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.
Bauer is being paid to describe the virtue deficit.
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It is a society in which every want is fulfilled.
The society is nightmarish.
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She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.
MacDonald is not liked.
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If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.
Abortion is the only choice available when pregnant.
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The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.
Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket in the first half of the 20th century.
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Also, check out this illustrated, in-depth exploration of Beck's fashion choices.)
This was about Susie's fashion choices.
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And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.
The medical field had no issue prescribing psychedelics.
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Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.
The biography was a failure.
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