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How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles?
I am 20
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He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.
The family was keeping him captive.
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The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality.
The Turkish army has been forceful against their enemy.
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So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).
The Kurds will eventually get there own territory.
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
The girl said men in tights were dancing in the apartment.
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If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it.
Reading a sketch of her pencil box will bring me great joy.
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So now we are living in the world everyone has long claimed to where we judge politicians based only on the issues and their public records of governance.
Even city council members were judged on the issues and their record of governance.
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What the press can do is cover leaking more aggressively.
The leaky press leaked covers more aggressively.
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Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.
WebRecord is at least partially superior to PrintSmart
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She says Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift has gone beyond the call of duty to earn [her] presidential kneepads.
Newsweek's reporting division hired Eleanor Clift, only to immediately fire her before she could perform any work.
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The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
Washington D.C. is oblivious to the company's actions
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Even his pit bulls restrained themselves.
The pit bulls were unable to self-control.
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How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?
It is unclear how you can gain the moral high ground
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Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.
Madison Avenue is known to have advertisements for inner city kids.
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A couple of serious Before removing any components, you must save copies onto a floppy disk.
You can always recover your data from the floppies.
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Consider the opening to The End of the World, which introduces an angry son who, as the story goes on, will be called to Paris to care for a selfish dying
The son had to go to Paris.
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The rounded slinky movements of the dancelike kata looked specifically designed to develop grace, coordination, and balance.
The kick and punch movements that the kata requires harm coordination, grace, and balance.
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Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com.
Some voters are engaged via the website vote.com
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perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.
The "Text" in unintelligible; I cannot make sense of it.
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The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.
The WNBA is not entertaining.
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North American Man Boy Like Association.
'Boy like' refers to sexual attraction
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Videotape of her answers will be shown to the Arkansas Whitewater grand jury, which will disband May 7. Pundits played up the tension between Starr and the first lady (since she recently called him a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right-wing opponents of my husband) and debated whether he will ...
The Arkansas Whitewater grand jury will be shown videotape of her answers.
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As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells.
Harkin was concerned by the actions of biotech companies
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The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee.
The University of Chicago strongly opposes online classes
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In 1992, only 1,070 abortions were performed after the 25 th week.
Fewer late-term abortions were performed in 1992 than in previous years.
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The Jerusalem Post pointed to a novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel (see International Papers for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse.
A scientific discovery was made recently
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Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ...
Willey has no friends.
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If there is a good reason, it has to do with our final question.
the reason is within the answer.
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The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.
The chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis offered no rebuttal.
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Some of these Nobel Prize winners don't want to deal with empirical reality at all.
Empirical reality is hard from some Nobel Prize winners.
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I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.
People can be manipulated to experience feelings that they may not wish for.
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Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.
Jackson was over protective of his son
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Sexual harassment is more common among Republicans.
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The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
Bellows was born in 1960.
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4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams.
The superstar is willing to forego a salary.
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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.
The new insta-museums are very popular with the younger generation.
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If Evans and Novak want to capture the real Farrakhan, Pundit Central suggests that they accompany him to one of his rallies.
Pundit Central says candidates need to come to a rally to win Farrakhan
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You fresh air/fresh ideas
There are only stale ideas.
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Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there.
Brubach worked for The New Yorker for a long time.
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Scientists were once ostracized for holding religious beliefs but can now worship without embarrassment.
Many scientists are Christians
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But filters aren't just for concerned parents.
Parents who use filters also worry about invading their children's privacy.
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A core group of kids do have a distinct attention abnormality, but Ritalin worked so well--it can reduce distractibility even in perfectly normal children--that now almost any difficult child is considered for the diagnosis and drug.
Ritilan has side effects as well.
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(Yes, if it uses speed attacks rather than electrical ones.)
Speed attacks are better than electrical attacks.
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That led him to the not-very-civil act of complaining to Bob Haldeman.
He wanted to complain to Bob Haldeman.
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This undermines explanations that assume ironclad effects of hormones.
There is new evidence pointing towards environmental effects
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So are bitchin' and stoked . Every generation insists on having its own new words for the most aggressively up-to-date aspects of life.
Every generation insists on the same old words for up-to-date aspects of life.
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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, Trump became president
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Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.
Pro-choicers likes to debate.
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Second, we said that government does have a limited role in addressing the problem.
The government is not the sole authority on the issue
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But it was Schultz who drew the outrage of the Old Seattle types, who sued him.
Schultz caused anger among others.
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But given the global supply glut--the U.S. government seized about a ton of heroin in 1995, compared with worldwide heroin production of 400 tons--many experts question whether interdiction has any effect on street prices.
The US government seized more heroin in 1996 than in 1995
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Well, if we extend the co-op's story a little bit, it is not hard to generate something that looks a lot like Japan's problems--and to see the outline of a solution.
Extending the co-op's story will allow a better outline to problems.
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How can you make the capital gains tax a litmus test issue but say that the slaughter of millions of innocent children is something about which you have only a mild preference and don't care much if people disagree?
People always put others before themselves.
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A 1990 study found that 28 percent of children diagnosed with the disorder didn't actually meet the definition.
All of the children in the study later grew up to be lawyers.
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It draws sidelong glances and playground taunts, and it may give the adopted child an identity crisis.
The adopted child bullies everyone on the playground.
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is for the peacekeeping mission to extend its mandate beyond the deadline by which U.S. forces are supposed to pull out.
U.S. forces have already pulled out.
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Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor.
Newsweekly photos are high resolution.
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I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.
The man's son wishes he still had the foreskin on his penis
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Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
The discount rate of 20% would apply to hardback book that are provided to the families of unborn children.
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perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age.
Her art is so bad it appears a monkey could have painted it.
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Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City).
Weegee's exhibit was located in Antartica.
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For sure, however, Microsoft has mainly been restrained by the knowledge that any crude use of its power would indeed land it in court.
Microsoft is a the largest software company.
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It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list.
Messages from strangers are particularly awful if they are sent specifically to you.
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In the United States, where inflation and the budget deficit have receded for the time being, vulgar Keynesianism has recently staged an impressive comeback.
Inflation and the budget deficit increased dramatically in the United States during the Bush years.
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So maybe the questions he proliferates here (here, unlike in his books, he questions the notion of a surgical strike, and here he wonders, Who has told us that it is OK to kill women and children?
Innocent civilians are avoidable casualties of drone strikes.
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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 could counterfeit anything in paint.
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He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate.
He is sympathetic to immigration as well.
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Upon rebooting you'll find that the Internet Explorer icon is gone from your desktop and Windows works fine.
The Internet Explorer icon is found on your desktiop.
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Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.
The web as helped bring people rogether.
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Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright.
A voicemail that is recorded invariably becomes the property of the recipient.
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And no one will be nicer.
Being nice is a gateway emotion to villainy.
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In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.
There are too many Intels.
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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, ran an essay from George Stephanopoulos.
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From home, I call my office three or four times a day.
I am able to take time off without touching base with people at work.
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The cover story says that megabillionaire and stock-picking legend Warren Buffett has quietly shifted his focus from buying individual stocks to purchasing companies.
Warren Buffett is creating a monopoly.
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Most Falwell-style Christians would probably say yes, since the Antichrist is a false Messiah, he'll have to be Jewish, like Christ himself.
According to most Falwell-style Christians, the Antichrist is Jewish.
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Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.
I found the pants.
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Someone, maybe a family counselor, needs to deal with the alienation the youngster feels and the hostility harbored by your husband.
The youngster and husband are at odds with each other.
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Keyes : Join me in a prayer to Our Creator.
Keyes doesn't believe in creationism.
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The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.
Despite being promoted by the nation, black capitalism has not been successful.
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But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.
There are 78 true hypotheses.
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So far, we'd spent about 10 minutes decoding just five words, but I felt on top of them and was ready to move on.
Decoding the words was impossible.
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Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy.
Martin could have caused a pleasant emotion
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The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.
Homosexual Catholics exist
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The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth.
People are willing to pay for additional security surrounding their wealth.
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Had Flytrap never occurred, Gore surely would be running on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.
Clinton and Gore presided over an economic boom.
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Industry folks fear they have given too much away.
Those of industry have given objects away.
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Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).
A museum that showcases American Folk Art has yet to exist.
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In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...
The Limey is a lighthearted musical film.
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(He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.)
His books are full of self quotes.
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If being smart is no guarantee of being right, having been right is not necessarily an indicator that someone is smart.
The author has seen people who were correct but not necessarily intelligent.
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DeParle also notes that her husband, Donald, recently found a job, as a hotel maintenance man.
Donald was able to find some work as a handyman at the hotel who fixes things like toilets, sinks, and elevators.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and Lewis were behind Bond from the start.
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Teacher of the Year Andrew Baumgartner is the kind of educator who has delighted his kindergarten students with a wedding for Sleeping Beauty, complete with limousine and cake, teaching them, I suppose, that nothing is worthwhile unless it is entertaining.
The teacher of the year teaches kindergarteners.
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Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?
Bradley and Reagan never saw eye-to-eye on a lot of issues in the past, and they still disagree now.
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Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.
Radioactive waste from food irradiation and hospital sterilization must be buried deep underground.
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Any NEA chairperson who had the interests of the gay community at heart would have rushed to defund the exhibit.
Many rushed to defund the exhibit from the NEA.
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The leading semi-official daily Al Ahram said in an editorial Wednesday that the attacks some Iraqi officials had made on the Egyptian leadership will not deter Cairo from standing by the Iraqi people and trying to prevent further U.S. military action.
Egyptian and Iraqi officials get along well
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At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.
The Jew who made racist remarks about ungrateful black people also hates white people
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All this amounts to clear and convincing proof of Jones' allegation--which has never been specifically denied by the president personally or by his lawyer Robert Bennett--that then-governor Clinton sent a state trooper to interrupt a state employee's performance of her job and bring her to his hotel room.
The allegation is that Clinton wanted Jones brought to his hotel room
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