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Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven?
Some people think they will go to heaven.
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Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets.
People argued against NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate
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Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent.
Everyone agrees the position is a good one to take.
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That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change.
All circumstances are fully knowable and well-made theories should easily transfer to the real world.
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2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus.
Because the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus, he says he must be Jewish.
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The Air Force says the case was less about adultery and more about Flinn's subsequent lying and cover-up.
Flinn was kicked out of the air force
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Malcolm Gladwell's exegesis, however, suggests that we are to vote for the most impressive display of empty virtuosity.
Gladwell is promoting an upcoming election between two candidates.
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Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, who made the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story , say Lana was adamant that she wasn't there.
People doubt Lana
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The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of your child was killed in a car crash (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.
Parents would rather their teen pass away in a car crash than for them to enjoy sex and drugs.
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The new health scare is a staph germ that is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort.
A microorganism is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort
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For people who are not immersed in recovery but are receptive to the notion of sex addiction, the president's dysfunction simply means that, like Ken Starr, he is out of control.
Addiction is easily understood by everyone.
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The first, as many of you did, is to take the competition improbably downscale--mixing implausible amounts of sex and/or violence into the competition.
The competition is part of a reality show.
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Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ...
Charles Isherwood has writen for Daily Variety for years.
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The differences among the three publications are probably best illustrated by their varying explanations for the mysterious cast that recently appeared on JFK Jr.'s arm.
Recent appearances show JFK Jr's arm had a mysterious cast on it.
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The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies.
The sexologist is promoting abstinence.
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They won't be satisfied--and won't relax--until they've identified his flaws.
They gave up on this individual long ago.
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Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.
Gramm is a hypocrite when it comes to taxes federally and within his own state.
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So the argument is that putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund more profitable and avoid, or at least put off, the day it runs out of money.
The argument is correct if the stocks chosen are Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
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Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.
Levi's is both stylish and popular.
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There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone astray well before last summer, and that some kind of bitter events was inevitable.
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After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.
The Boston Globe investigated Havard's policies and procedures regarding accepting students into its programs.
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The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.
Mao caused a lot of deaths due to famine
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After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.
The speaker is a man.
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Instead, Bradley repudiates the word.
Bradly declared the word invalid.
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Ironically, busing will become unnecessary only when no one seems to have a problem with it anymore.
People have had a problem with busing in the past.
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The Unjust Clinton's moral theory, point by point, as expressed in his testimony.
Clinton, also known as 'the most fair', was prevented from offering a testimony.
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Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and of the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines.
Wilson gave a poor overview of western intellectual history.
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The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation.
The Fed immediately chose to increase interest rates at the first sign of inflation.
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It works out to about 5 cents per lie.
each lie brings in about $3
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
The company GM frowns upon workers making their jobs more efficient.
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A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.
The second question is in regard to spending, Greenspan said.
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Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.
Mitchell worked in Florida his whole life.
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Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.
A real-estate dealer in Israel was killed.
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A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that.
The modern woman's image has changed a lot in the past 10 years
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That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.
Ellen Barkin should be impressed.
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The Pescis and Esther Williams won't come unless they get some!
Esther Williams and the Pescis are both waiting for something.
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God how I love this country.
I love this country.
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This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields.
For the rest of Clinton's presidency, people will talk about this story
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In this context, it's hard to know what makes a kaffeeklatsch odd.
A kaffeeklatsch only includes coffee to drink.
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If loans to ski resorts, fast-food chains, and the Bolivian government paid a slightly higher return than loans to a local small business or housing complex, then they had to be the more deserving use of capital.
Of the five entities that received loans, ski resorts were the most deserving of capital.
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After the treaty, they will fall into one of two 1) those that suffer economic sanctions and a clear-cut stigma, and 2) those that have agreed to allow short-notice inspections of any suspicious site in their territory.
The treaty divided them into two separate groups.
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) to keep him out of their way.
He will get in the way if not stopped.
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Newsweek, which loves fad therapies, hypes natural Prozac.
Newsweek publishes about therapies every week.
neutral
He is not an economics writer
He is an economics writer
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Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
Lack of competition in certain markets is one reason magnates are so wealthy.
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to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision,
I am done asking about the topic.
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Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!
The husband who saw me castigated in public nearly fainted
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There is little doubt about the pro-choice media's unquestioning acceptance of the faulty pro-choice statistics.
Faulty Pro-choice statistics are accepted by the pro-choice media.
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
There has been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge.
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Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place?
Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place? was lost in the managed-care rumble.
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This Johnny was just a wig and a smear of lipstick on a clenched fist, but he made Seeor Wences that rarest of performers, a genuinely funny ventriloquist.
Seeor Wences was known for being a mime.
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In a limited way, the Reagan speech served as guidance for his policies after he came into office.
Reagan gave a speech before he took office.
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Clark also expressed the hope that he and Redgrave could continue with their marriage.
Redgrave loved Clark.
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This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their balance by going after the GOP.
Clinton has been spoken about by reporters and pundits.
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says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.
Norm Dicks of Washington is going back on what he previously said.
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(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.
We laid the remains of our flaccid penises to rest.
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Vouchers, they argue, are simply a guise for the edu-welfare system to cast its net over several million more families and children.
Vouchers will have a negative impact on some families.
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But there have been cases where the candidate gave us relevant numbers--and with success.
Relevant numbers are also given by people other than the candidates themselves.
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After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston.
The angry phone calls and letters were for political reasons.
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Newsweek excerpts a forthcoming biography of Tiger Woods.
Predictions of a Tiger Woods biography coming from Newsweek.
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And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.
When the president took a trip to Africa, he forbade Jesse Jackson from attending.
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Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could.
Two of my brothers successfully stopped smoking.
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Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities.
Well moneyed universities get the bulk of financial donations.
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A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
Dentists have learned nothing and continue to ignore new innovations and technologies.
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The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.
After women and their fugitive men haunted tough cities, the cities became more prominent than ever
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There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.
He injured himself on the door.
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Pols spend their dotage as think tank scholars or consultants or part-time lobbyists ( Bob Dole) and are trotted out periodically for sage commentary.
Pols provide foolish commentary
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Outside the world of pop psychology, it is likely to engender skepticism.
This will be taken seriously once its gravitas is apparent.
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When Pixar went public, the money raised from that very first sale of its shares was what it used to run its business in the future.
Pixar's first sale of its shares raised over 50 million dollars
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I might even vote for her.
I am against voting for a woman.
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The following letter contains perhaps the funniest story the Shopping Avenger has heard about U-Haul, and by now the Shopping Avenger has received upward of 6.7 million complaints about U-Haul.
The service of U-Haul seems to be something that is worsening.
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Never able to paint anything unless he had it before his eyes, Soutine set about re-enacting some of the classic paintings he loved most.
Soutine sold fake version of Picasso.
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And when it stumbles onto a good subject for a series, like Ken Burns' history of baseball, it turns the show into a seminar on racism and labor relations, not the hit-and-run and the spitball.
The show might have been too politically motivated for many of those watching,
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It is a play with clear imperfections, such as an excessively shrill third act.
The third act is imperfect.
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Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy.
Starr unraveled Bruce Shapiro's presidential cover-up conspiracy.
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In contrast to the well-oiled Gore machine, Bradley has no staff, message, money, or following.
Gore was also poorly staffed and poorly funded.
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Chances are that if you know she's running around, it's likely your brother does, too.
She's running around, and it's likely your brother knows.
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The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze.
The pump is difficult to squeeze.
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They're more interested in spiritual self-flagellation and renewal.
They are willing to endure physical pain for spiritual retribution.
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It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up.
Nerve has reached the breaking point.
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The world is not now in depression, nor is a full-scale replay of the 1930s likely.
A repeat of the Great Depression is imminent
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He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.
He was a member of the family.
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Many Protestants have no doubt that Jesus is really present in the Communion distributed at Catholic Masses.
The Communion celebrated at Catholic Masses is believed by many Protestants to be the body and blood of Dog Faced Vito.
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That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious.
Irag was bombed on Nov. 14th.
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Meanwhile, Olivia fits right into the role of the beautiful-blonde-who-isn't-really-a-bimbo.
Olivia is above average intelligence
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In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.
All situations being considered are extremely challenging, and involve misgivings and uncertainty for everyone.
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We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum).
The case is going to be battled in court for months.
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What has allowed Intel to dominate its many competitors, who are perennially nipping at its heels with computer chips that are supposedly faster or cheaper, is that Intel does a much better job of making chips reliably and efficiently.
Intel's chips are reliable
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Along with Mad magazine, he provided comedy to my suburban boyhood--Schulz the philosophical and Mad the topical--at just the right intellectual level for a suburban boy.
Mad magazine is entertaining to suburban boys
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At least, Chatterbox thinks that's what Johnsen said ...
Chatterbox has a belief about what Johnsen said
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Critics revel in his caustic humor and vengeful gossip about new-media moguls (he describes one AOL exec as a fat man, an ugly man, sweating like crazy).
He has also described a Google exec in a mean way
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It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.
Homicide is different and separate from major weight loss.
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Wandered all over the room and blew on some other guy's dice.
I stayed still in the room.
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There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.
Some Libertarian Party members are open-minded.
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But don't expect them for a few decades.
It'll be a minimum of 60 years before you can expect them.
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But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection.
I will definitely be able to find a potential mate.
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Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?
The saying "We're all grown-ups here?" was originally said in a movie.
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Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).
Prusiner has found the cure for the disease.
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No, because this is something that's private.
People value transparency over privacy in this instance.
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We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year.
We saw some friends recently, and they gave us a blanket.
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