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The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning?
Bill Kristol has appeared on This Week at least three times.
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In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed.
Republicans will back off from accusing Clinton of wrongdoing.
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(The of supranational NGO lobbying in general is analyzed by Jessica Mathews in the January/February Foreign Affairs .) Thus the old left, intentionally or not, is pushing us from national regulation to supranational regulation--albeit, in this case, a kind of private-sector supranational regulation.
Jessica Mathews analyzed the supranational NGO lobbying.
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That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.
the jam was gone.
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The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile, it said.
The Russian miracle has a 100% success rate.
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But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.
The logo is misleading some customers.
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The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.
The New England Journal of Medicine did not rush the story to press.
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The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive.
The Diary is updated sporadically.
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Natural dark-haired beauty--despised or exoticized for eons by Europeans, Britons, and Americans--has at last been universally recognized and welcomed.
Natural dark hair is unwelcome
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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 is lying about what he has done.
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All I missed was something more than winks and hints about the nature of the triangle among Cahill, his wife, and her sister (the lush Angeline Ball), with whom he fathered several children.
Cahill, his wife, and her sister, were involved in a love triangle.
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Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
These organizations want to keep focusing only on the West and the North.
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
demand for oil is increasing.
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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.
This process leads to micro-pandering.
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While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy.
no one heard from the pro-drug forces.
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You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.
You are able to explore more of the file by clicking the plus sign.
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There is only one airline the Shopping Avenger believes understands the fundamentals of customer service, and that is Southwest Airlines.
The Shopping Avenger believe there is only one airline that gets customer service, and that's Southwest Airlines
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The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts.
No anti-Microsoft lawsuits were filed after the antitrust judge released their finding of facts.
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Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle.
Lockheed had an impact on space exploration
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On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle.
Tom claims only he and John were in the transportation machine
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We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.
Americans have the best eating habits in the world.
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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
Eszterhaus writes about things like letting the cat out of the bag, tipping the hand of the protagonist.
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Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas.
Moas is not as slender as he used to be.
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This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
Dove painted in the Renaissance style
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The villains were the blacklisters.
There were three villains
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As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.
It is hard for dictionary makers to get spoken citations
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And in the Where are they now?
People are indentified and located.
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The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.
Many say The Dayton Accord separates the country into two.
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Researchers in Boston are already implanting fetal pig cells in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients.
Researchers are using horse cells into cancer patients.
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I have never given it a second thought, but recently people seem to be noticing my sneezing and commenting on it, some suggesting I see a doctor.
I saw a doctor about my sneezing.
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As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer.
Flytrap will appear in Washington Week next year.
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Most Americans will have a tough time living up to its standards.
It's difficult for Americans to live up to the standards it sets.
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Bond rejected this advice.
Bond gave the advice serious consideration
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Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually.
Alternative therapies is a dying industry.
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4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case.
Bork is Microsoft's owner.
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What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about the new, there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.
They are impressed with the commotion about history.
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But, says Kull, One would not expect a real bounce until you see some signs of success.
Kull says that until you see signs of success one would not expect a real bounce in the futures market.
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Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.
Congress has declined to post them in the past.
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I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke.
Smoke is healthy for you.
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This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.
The tournament that has 16 teams left contains three Cinderella teams from the state of North Carolina
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Willey might have a better case against Clinton if she wants to make it--and if her story is true.
Willey and Clinton are in an agreement with each other about a story.
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Starr has said that leaking grand jury testimony before it's actually delivered doesn't count.
Starr says testimony leaked before being delivered doesn't count
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Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
The Iowa caucus comes before New Hampshire's.
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PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets.
Fewer news sources are read by a lot of people.
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What if they just don't have feelings?
They are robots
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Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.
ultimate fighting is a peaceful sport
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Columnist Robert Novak , supply-side evangelist Jude Wanniski , and Jack Kemp have all praised Farrakhan's self-help program, noting the similarities to their own conservative urban policy.
Novak, Wanniski, and Kemp will work with Farrakhan to help boost the program's popularity.
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He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan.
Nobody knows which side he favors.
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If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.
The author will pay taxes if they cash it.
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All these numbers may be climbing, but they remain low.
The numbers have been going up steadily for a month
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After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.
Smiley has written essays critiquing other Twain novels
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Time says Dolly the cloned sheep could be a fake.
Scientist argue Time over Dolly.
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You don't understand how important this is.
The importance of this event was overblown.
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He retaliated by filing one against her.
The man did not agree with the woman.
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Please send your nominations to 100TopHeds@slate.com.
There have been a few nominations sent to the wrong email address.
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Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out.
A professor sometimes favors some students more than others.
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We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern.
We don't know the origin of life.
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Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.
Johnson knew his insecurities about making the senate race in New York.
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So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?
Affirmative action programs exist in both the military and in higher education.
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Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.
Chynna Phillips never married
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That was Joyce's age when J.D. summoned her to his hilltop aerie in Cornish, N.H.
J.D. and Joyce were in a relationship.
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It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did.
Frank groveled before the entire country on a live tv show.
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Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.
Clinton visited a McDonald's in Honolulu
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If you're lying, shame on you.
Lying is something to be proud of.
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Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.
Not all of the viewers of the Christian television network were outraged.
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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? didn't even come up because of the managed-care rumble.
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5) Dueling spins : The New York Times says the scandal will dog and impede Clinton's foreign policy.
The New York Times published an article about Clinton's foreign policy.
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In March, he dismissed Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and replaced him with a 35-year-old political neophyte, Sergei Kiriyenko.
He was happy to continue with his highly experienced Prime Minister, and fired his 35 year old assistant.
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And Pooh belongs to America for economic reasons as well as literary ones.
And Pooh pertains to America for known reasons.
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Pundit Central, for one, is worried that peppy, likable Monica might try to take its job.
Despite the fears of Pundit Central, Monica has no desires to try and take its job.
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Dr. Arthur Caplan, the only ethicist at the hearing who betrayed any awareness of the new issues, focused instead on the morality of trade-offs.
Dr. Caplan focused only on the morals.
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The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge.
The components have all been combined in the mixture.
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And whether or not all the right jobs are filled with exactly the right people, the United States still manages to negotiate with China and the United Nations, the civil rights division still manages to file cases, and judges still manage to impose sentences.
We have a record number of unfilled government jobs, left unfilled to cut corners.
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The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.
There were junior Korbels from the small town.
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Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.
Youth is wasted on the young.
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From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.
there are multiple ways to look at the cituation
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Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.
Foucault is a leftist.
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(So, while she was dragged into the scandal against her will, it was her own loquaciousness that made the dragging possible.)
She was dragged into the scandal against her will.
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The only new fact in Flytrap that would qualify as genuine news would be one proving Bill Clinton didn't have sex with Lewinsky.
Flytrap does not have a lot of real news to offer.
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But what will Daimler get?
Does Daimler have something
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In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter.
In theory, they should be making sensible claims
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Possibly, Bakaly meant to give the impression that Starr has a good hand without formally stating anything, but more likely it was an unintentional snafu.
Bakaly was meaning to imply that Starr's hand was absolutely terrible, but his poker face was awful.
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The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.
The story was extremely critical of Eyes Wide Shut
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I am fortunate enough to have two mothers-in- one who gave birth to my wonderful husband and one who is married to his father.
The speaker is a woman.
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Maybe even Al Gore will soon exalt with a broad smile the vibrant U.S. ecology.
The US ecology is so good that even Al Gore will appreciate it.
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And those damn video games.
Some people think video games cause problems.
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And the name of that guy?
They needed to know the name of the man.
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It is a play with clear imperfections, such as an excessively shrill third act.
The play's first two acts are better.
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At their press conference after the Senate verdict, several House prosecutors interrupted their sermons against the polls to point out where the public agreed with them.
House prosecutors want you to know the public agreed with them
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Then, each boy was taken aside and asked how he would divide up rewards among individual boys from your group and the other group.
they were asked a group who should get the lump sum of the reward.
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Here, again, was a world they could understand.
They're in uncharted territory.
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I noticed this as I was moving the furniture on the second floor back into the bedrooms.
I was moving furniture on the third floor.
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Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth.
After raising savings, growth wouldn't increase, but only when Democrats hold power
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Eight pages later, a tribute to Princess Diana emphasizes her embodiment of, yes, Globalization has become the decade's most overused word, but at its heart, it embodies a real technology has made this a planet of shared experiences.
Globalization was the most popular word in the decade.
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The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes.
The political culture of nationalism approves of authoratarian leaders.
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One of the most famous of all photographs is Robert Capa's 1936 Moment of Death , taken during the Spanish Civil War.
The photograph Moment of Death, shows people dying during the Spanish Civil War.
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It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is sturdy and forgiving.
The broad assumptions that people made about different stereotyped groups were torn down during the debate about morality.
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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 takes on average 2 minutes each.
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Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.
Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are on the outer edges of their respective parties.
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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
Rockefeller tried to help people.
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