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It's about sex.
It concerns intercourse.
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But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.
The language and soundtrack used in his films are freeing.
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That, of course, is precisely why Java has become such fertile ground for cyberevangelism.
Java is a language that people from Canada speak when in Quebec.
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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.
Lindbergh branded Jews as un-American agitators
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Beijing's opposition seems to be driven more by apprehension that Washington might provide theater missile defenses to Taiwan, which China views as a renegade province.
China is worried about what Washington will do.
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Officials at the Justice Department and FISA Court deny that the latter is a rubber stamp, attributing Justice's winning percentage to rigorous internal review that weeds out bad applications before they're filed.
they completely deny it at the Justice Department and FISA Court
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This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Richard Gephardt is the House Democratic Caucus head.
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Listen, I really don't want to criticize.
I want to cause the person pain and trouble.
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These pronouncements on subjective issues annoy me no end.
The declarations regarding the problems really bothered me.
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Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.
Money and party regulars will generally nullify the relevance of voters' concerns in the primaries and general election.
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The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region.
America sent a military force to the area.
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
It is possible that new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
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You want a recipe for healing?
He knows a recipe for healing.
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I do know that I could see every plot turn dragging its limp, maggoty carcass across the desert from miles away.
The plot wasn't enjoyable to read.
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Fox President and CEO Rich Cronin called this separate-but-equal programming an effort to superserve children, adding, We will not stereotype in any way.
Rich Cronin is concerned with treating all children equally.
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But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks).
Among Dow Jones industrial average stocks, buying $1 of dividends costs you $72; ten dollars more than two years ago.
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Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used.
Prominent politicians made statements about their views on general privacy legislation
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It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is far behind.
It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is appearing to be far behind.
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Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex
Leonardo was fascinated with swirling water
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Specifically, it wants $90,000 for a confiscated file of telegrams and letters sent in response to Nixon's famous Silent Majority speech.
Nixon has a lot of correspondence that is people are willing to pay a lot of money for.
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And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.
Parents should try to slow down children's lives.
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(His colleagues feel he's a showboat and a camera hog, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.)
The professor does stunts for attention.
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It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.
State and local officials embarked on a successful campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use in the late 1960's.
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And there is yet another valid that the widespread transmission of racial stereotypes might indeed be helpful to hate groups.
The widespread transmission of racial stereotypes could be helpful to hate groups.
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But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
Auden always advocated for Poetry, seeing it as a sort of holy grail, maintaining that verse or writing in general is holy.
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Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover.
Micheal Ledeen encourages Carlson for criticizing Grover.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Bond eventually won over the mulatto elite.
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In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.
Steve Brill is old news.
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The idea of a nation of stockholders is appealing but, in practice, the plants' old Soviet-style managers gained control.
I would be nice if the plant employees shared ownership, but this didn't happen.
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He said, 'Was this an attempt to subvert the Constitution?
The Constitution is now unimportant
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He opens people up by agreeing with them.
After agreeing with them, others open up to him
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As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.
She wore so many undergarments under her clothing she seemed to be padded up for football.
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It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown.
Albania's independence has always been accepted by others.
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Parcells has an addict's relationship with football.
Parcells is obsessed with football
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And yet it ended up foundering as a result of the inherent uncertainty of the free-market system.
Inherent uncertainty influenced the free-market system.
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Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress.
Monica is very imaginative.
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Early diagnosis, new teaching techniques (emphasis on the arts, thematic programs), and new research into the brains of LD kids are starting to rectify a neglected problem.
LD kids are benefitting from early diagnosis, new teaching techniques, and new research.
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At least, it seems clear that the earnings of the total labor force have risen pretty much in line with productivity (output per hour of work) when measured correctly.
There is a strong positive correlation between the labor force's earnings and productivity.
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Maybe then you won't be too good to ride in an exploding Chevy.
This person does not like the Chevy.
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Investigators are examining whether mobsters diverted funds--including foreign aid--out of the country through an offshore network built by a former International Monetary Fund official.
Mobsters had an off shore network setup for all of their funds.
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The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto.
It is categorically impossible to veto the president's decision.
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We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?
We admire those who give up before they are finished.
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There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
Hourly wages were higher in in Japan than in South Korea in 1975
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The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.
The Clinton health-care plan is good.
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Massachusetts' highest court decided that British au pair Louise Woodward will not go back to jail.
Massachusetts decided that Louis Woodward, the British au pair, could stay out of jail.
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Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants.
The presidents attention was attracted
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There is lots of truth to that view.
The author thinks the view has merit.
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' That is said scornfully or dismissively, says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center.
Brinkly admired Ambrose.
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We anticipate accidents at stock car races.
There will be an accident at the next stock car race.
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Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found.
Forbes wants to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where he feels likely voters will be.
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A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.
The critic found the play to be quite boring.
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U.S. law does not require the president to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid.
The president is not always required by law to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid. .
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We're having debates.
The author has experience with debating.
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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 directly related to men.
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But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game.
But the supply-siders are alluding when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game
neutral
(For the neutral-interrogator approach, try France.)
France employs a neutral-interrogator strategy
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A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.
The siblings are putting together a heavy duty submaringe that can travel to the deepest part of the ocean.
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Nonetheless, his book is a valuable contribution to the debate, because it gives those with experience an abstract architectural plan against which to evaluate today's imperfect reality of criminal justice.
The text was seen as an important element of the debate.
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Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.
Bauer publicly describes the virtue surplus.
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Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.
She is distraught due to the death of her father
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Coming from a conservative background, my partner has stated on many occasions that his parents won't allow him to stay over at my apartment, even though on some nights this would be preferable to his making the long drive home.
Conservative values can prevent people from performing basic functions, such as staying over at someone's house.
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I obeyed, but nothing I was still sleepless.
I will have control over my life from this day forward.
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on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued.
At the cinema there are American films not sold for foreign consumption
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Guess what, so is the Chinese rate of osteoporosis.
The Chinese has a rate of osteoporosis.
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In the warren of grungy rooms beneath the dance floor--the celebrities' sanctum sanctorum--the coke was consumed by the linear foot, and (according to the author) the odd European contessa could be found handcuffed to a water pipe, getting squired from the rear by one of the pretty shirtless busboys.
Coke was not the only drug found there
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But it's uncontroversial that many Congress members are dim.
The intelligence of Congress members is correlated to the economy of the state they come from
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Then, when the groups learned of one another's existence, the boys immediately drew lines in the sand.
The boys were able to resolve their issues.
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But there would not be, nor could there have been, an overall increase in prices.
Prices did not increase
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Clinton is said to be concerned with shaping a historical legacy, but as may be noted from his failed medical care program, his unpopular anti-Iraq saber rattling, and his largely ignored dialogue on race, the care of business is pretty much all that's wanted of Clinton, too.
Clinton's is known to have his failures in office.
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Disk compression and networking into Windows.
Disk compression is the sore function in windows.
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You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)
The computer software has many cool features.
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(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.
The broadcasters had a knock down Drag Out over the Basketball game in the world series.
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Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee.
Gore is Vice President and is heading to a region of Tennessee by Wednesday.
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Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen.
The fishermen were skilled and experienced, but the storm was just too strong for them to handle.
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On the rare occasions the service is queried, it invokes the Dead President.
If the Secret Service is ever questioned it cites past assassination attempts.
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Twenty-five days after that conversation, Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office and told him face to face that he didn't want him as a running mate.
Johnson did not want to run with Kennedy.
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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
I believe I have a higher calling here.
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Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.
Soldiers dying will increase public support for the war
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The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.
The information was found in The New York Post.
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Ambrose--in the very next sentence!
Ambrose is a character in a story.
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These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.
Kenneth Starr subpoenaed these notes on June 21, 1996.
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This is a political as well as military project.
The entire project can be divisive to some.
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My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.
Leuchter is a Holocaust revisionist
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Why don't you respond that, in the infinite wisdom of your procrastination, you somehow divined the marriage would be a dud, and you think you will give this one a similar two year trial period?
This person does things without putting it off for later.
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The piece notes that the 10-year survival rate for heart transplants is an astonishing 60 percent, orders of magnitude higher than it was in the '70s.
The survival rate for heart transplants is much high now than in the 70s.
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Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, will be abandoned or dropped at the pound.
The number abandoned at the pound will be zero
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As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand ...
Melville was an expert on sperm whales.
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So we all have benefited indirectly.
Everyone in the group seems to have done well, albeit in a fashion that is not direct.
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The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.
The backdoor sniping is beneficial.
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Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.
It was advised that Baitgate should be investigated before any reason had become apparent.
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It is hard to imagine a smaller step than the one Greenspan took.
Greenspan was afraid to make changes.
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A boxer cannot fight with a heart condition or dementia.
Dementia is beneficial for boxers because they don't use their brains to fight.
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Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposes, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like dual hegemony, limited nuclear war, and the slogan win the peace t...
It was a truth-telling contest.
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The high-end beers cost roughly three times as much as the cheapest ones, and twice as much as the middle range.
Small batch craft beers cost a lot more than mass produced brands such as Coors.
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Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.
Disney will create a rendition of Beowulf.
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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 lives in Los Angeles.
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One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.
Veep is funding the wiring of schools and libraries to the internet
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Can a meeting with Al Gore (or at least Hillary Clinton) be far behind?
They expect a discussion with Gore or Clinton to potentially happen soon.
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How they do so may be within our control.
We will be able to take control of this
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The few stinky letters were from clergymen.
Clergymen sent some stinky letters.
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