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3 million for a 30-second spot) and banal products.
To get a 30 second spot costs 3 million dollar.
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Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.
Had a week of pastoral visit that he turned into a chance for self-promotion.
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Many on both sides anticipate that the Democratic primary of 2000 will be a showdown, with Dick Gephardt representing the old Dems and Al Gore standing in for the new.
Bringing the Fatted calf to market, Gore will take up the solid mantle of the past as Gephardt dons the bright Knight's shining armor of the starry future.
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Their actual relationship was more complicated.
Their relationship was simple and uncomplicated.
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One possibility is that these ads will develop into a new form of micro-pandering, but the process will be interesting no matter where it leads.
These ads could turn into a new type of micro-pandering.
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Many of them in fine restaurants.
Fine restaurants have many of them.
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Conservatives, after all, have spent the last year crediting Clinton's polls to He has lucked into the best economy in history.
Conservatives do not want to credit Clinton for the economy
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Wore a rag on his head.
He is protecting his head from the hot sun.
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While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.
By cutting over 100,000 jobs, they will be able to stay in business for much longer.
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Regular Sunday reviewers, on the model of Cyril Connolly, the longtime critic for the Sunday Times , become trusted guides.
Many reviewers for the Sunday Times are trusted guides.
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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.
The president's behavior is dysfunctional.
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I believe that your hearts will go on.
They will find someone new to love.
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I don't mind a girl who thinks,
Girls who think don't bother them at all.
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I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).
I want a simple wedding.
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In the Times of London Monday, Clarke was quoted as saying, There is no truth whatsoever in the allegations that the Sunday Mirror are making against me, and they are very hurtful.
Clarke admits that the allegations made by the Sunday mirror are true.
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During World War I, as he conveyed vegetables to the troops quartered nearby and refused to leave Giverny as the German line advanced, Monet's panels took on some of the dark mood of war.
Monet was passionate about the war.
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This time, they were looking for a candidate who knew how to speak the language of love.
The candidate they were looking for needed to be able to explain to people about love.
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It's Wallace's lack of interest in Wigand's story--the movie's most powerful--that damns him in the audience's eyes.
In Wallace's story, Wigand was damned in the audience's eyes.
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The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.
The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, most of which write their own rules.
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His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.
He has run out of possible paths to winning.
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I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does.
Joan Didion will know.
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There's nothing in Pecker that isn't done more brilliantly--and more subversively--every week on Mike Judge's inspired cartoon series King of the Hill .
Mike Judge's King of the Hill was a stupid print comic about a huge oak tree on top of a hill.
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People can be weak, and money is all too often the way to their heart.
Everybody chooses love over money.
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A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.
The professor is a fan of William Shakespeare
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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.
Biden makes fun of the Jew who made racist remarks about ungrateful black people
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Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.
Stanley Tucci's acting is great.
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The winner's curse also doesn't apply when there are many identical items being auctioned off.
The winner's curse only applies when a large number of very similar items are auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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(In last week's win against Minnesota, the Jets committed only one.)
Minnesota has won a few rounds too.
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It would take only one-tenth of one second to download a Slate article via ADSL.
You cannot download a Slate article via ASDL.
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There are people that just want to get this president (Sen.
the commander in chief is well loved by all.
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Living poets will continue to be eligible as well.
Only dead poets are eligible.
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For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.
The quality of the images will improve in the next few years
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Consequently, the Army can eliminate its weakest candidates--about one-half of blacks and one-third of whites--and still have a large number of blacks--about one-third of the Army.
The army has both black and white candidates that are considered to be weak.
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With the global economy showing signs of coming apart at the seams, it is truly disappointing that the leaders of the two countries who ought to be co-operating to prevent a worldwide crisis are having to struggle for their own political lives, it said.
The politicians are too busy to worry about the world economy.
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(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
I dread and fear explaining how the system works.
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The results were depressingly consistent.
I was depressed to learn the results.
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Well, his proof does leave one loophole.
A lawyer discovered the loophole in his proof
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Linux found my various devices, such as my mouse and graphics card.
I have various computer accessories
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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 makes it harder to connect with people
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I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons.
It's hard to see how one would not understand that this argument is about changes on the commons.
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My publishers will kill me if I don't mention my own biography of D.P.
The company refuses to pursue a relationship with them because they included their biography of DP.
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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.
It's not typical to find someone playing in the waves on a beach wearing a full length dress.
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There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.
This was never meant to be about tourism or fun.
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Kenny needs to come back home to Texas.
It is important that Kenny comes back home to Texas.
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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.
After stumbling onto a good subject for a series, they focused on talking about the types of plays that are made during a baseball game.
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The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.
Missouri no longer supports this sport in present day America.
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That assumption may or may not be correct.
The assumption is already proven.
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Your wanderings on the Web leave more footprints than you may realize.
It is possible for the government to track your activities on the web.
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I'd just like to point out, in case you were planning a satirical musical comedy about the crisis in question, something you can do to a song from West Side Story : Korea, I've just met a place called Korea!
There are songs from West Side Story.
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No doubt there would be other occasions that clearly met the standard where intervention was unrealistic.
There would be other times where having someone go in and stop the situation would be unlikely.
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In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject.
The former president who tried to distance himself from conservative Republicans caved on their immigration issue
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Of course not all shoddiness is local.
Some shoddiness is outside the local area.
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Submitting a decision to the U.S.
The decision submitted to America is fair
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His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.
Even his friends believed that he was quite pretentious.
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Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.
The man who runs Millionaire wishes that they were more interesting to listen to.
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In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.
There are fewer Intels than Planet Hollywoods.
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[This last is a dig at Jesse Jackson.]
Jesse Jackson is free of criticism
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(Clinton to We're basically following your game plan.
Clinton told them he was basically following their game plan because he found it easy.
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Rubin's relief for Americans has encouraged a moral hazard--an inducement for people to speculate excessively because they know the United States will rescue them.
Speculating execessively brings is a great moral exercise for America.
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An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives.
The Atlanta shooter was obviously messed up
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
By reducing German domination of European fiscal policy, the pact could devalue currencies across Europe.
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Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge.
Mencken and Clinton were friends
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President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.
The president appeared at the World Cup Final
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My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes!
The software doesn't learn from its errors
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Can a meeting with Al Gore (or at least Hillary Clinton) be far behind?
A discussion with Gore or Clinton is an impossibility.
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The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)
The book is a guide to daily life.
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I now have my own literary oeuvre . This entitles me to certain privileges, such as employing foreign words in my writings (see previous sentence) and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
A literary oeuvre entitles one access to books that have not been published yet.
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3 billion bill for the U.S.
The largest bill ever written for the United States has never exceeded a billion dollars.
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Editorialists agree that Milosevic is a treacherous butcher, but nobody knows how to stop him without a major bombing campaign, for which Europe and the United States lack the stomach.
The United States are planning a mission to secretly stop Milosevic.
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But any hope that Democrats can capitalize on Starr's non-North performance dissolves immediately after lunch, when Democratic committee counsel Abbe Lowell questions Starr.
Abbe Lowell is on the Democratic committee counsel.
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But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries.
24 countries supplied people for the bureaucrats and activists.
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That is another investment one can make for old so to conduct oneself in prior years that one can feel one has paid one's dues.
It is better to invest while young to look back and enjoy what one has done.
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In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.
These situations involve misgivings and uncertainty.
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The movie's lone masterful sequence is the one that features a batch of blank, leggy dolls, along with people whose faces are hidden behind expressive masks.
The movie did not have a lot of good qualities.
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U.S. immigration law permits spouses of American citizens to become American citizens with only a few exceptions, such as sham marriages undertaken for the purpose of obtaining citizenship.
A lot of people cheat to become citizens.
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It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.
Health can only be converted into an offal.
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The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.
All Americans who are adults oppose smoking.
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Another Fan Page has a set of good links about the affair and a message board, too, though on last visit, it was no longer available.
A fan page with a lot of good links about the affair is now no longer available.
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And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose).
Nash read the New York Times and found nothing unusual there.
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Pollard may have spied for a friendly country, but he did a traitor's work.
Poland betrayed another ally in the process of spying.
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In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash.
He doesn't need cash to win ultimately.
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The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it.
Mr. Graham approves of the PDFA
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The reason to see Man on the Moon is Jim Carrey.
Man on the Moon was a bad movie.
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And that's when Italian-Americans will really have something to bitch about (by the way, where do you stand on the The Sopranos isn't good for Italians question?)
Critics agree Sopranos isn't good for Italians.
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One reject was asked earnestly why on earth he had gone to live in Prague after graduation, surviving on odd jobs instead of starting a career back home.
He was rejected
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In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner.
The future pope said that women are more intuitive.
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The neat 6:3:2 mathematical relationship among the price groups should be noted.
All the prices are exactly the same.
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She is hauled away, presumably to be killed.
She will only be harmed.
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I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing.
One wrote such a thing.
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Pundit Central, for one, is worried that peppy, likable Monica might try to take its job.
Monica is likable and worries Pundit Central.
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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).
He is unemployed
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Museum of Jewish A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York City).
New York has a Holocaust memorial
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But the interesting question is about sites sharing data.
There is total certainty about sites sharing data
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The original Seattleites--the NW Indians--have become so Californian they're Nevadans.
The NE Indians are the original Seattleites.
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Have the threats to our security doubled since then?
There have been threats to security.
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PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact.
PointCast has been in business for over 20 years.
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Clinton, though, has also faced a continuing barrage of unserious allegations--implausible and untrue.
Clinton's term was without scandal
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Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.
Stanley Fish is a political realist, but even the University of Illinois doesn't know what to make of him.
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The shotgun-marriage rate itself declined only gradually, but that is not surprising.
The rate is taken from data from only one state.
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Only a handful of the 200,000 Serbs have come back to the Krajina.
200,000 Serbs returned to Krajina
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