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To track all of this month's four-star movies, check out the TV-Now website Four Star Movies February TV Schedule.
To find good movies, look at the TV-Now website.
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Newsweek, which loves fad therapies, hypes natural Prozac.
Newsweek like therapy.
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Does this mean that you will be happier when the information comes out?
The information will cause you to be very upset.
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They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another.
Those two are like twins, they are so much alike!
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Bloomie's says I've got $40 due,
The author owes money.
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In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.
Dragon Air's headquarters in Hong Kong employs more than a thousand people.
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Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.
Marketers are out of touch
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Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.
Hillary Clinton had written for Newsweek before this essay
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That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt.
Even though he exaggerated the power of biology, his ideas were well received.
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The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.
National endowments programs were withdrawn in 1980.
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Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.
It is unpopular to hold the opinion of demand-side thinking.
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It just means they're really, really serious about you.
You are beautiful
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But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results.
They figured out that Wiztum and Rips's conclusion was a result of ambiguity.
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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.
There were no white candidates that were considered by the army to be weak.
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Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
Joel Klein is an effective and well respected assistant attorney general.
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The flip side is that parolees who want to go straight often can make it if they are literate, civil, and can stay off drugs, remain sober, and get a job.
Some parolees will make it
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(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
George W Bush's father left the Trilateral Commision after backlash.
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One answer is that the speed with which sexy-sounding scientific ideas get picked up by popular culture is getting alarmingly from Physical Review Letters to the latest best seller by Tom Peters almost before you know it.
Science has nothing to do with pop culture.
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He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.
Death is unable to possess the young man's body after he is struck by a vehicle in the movie.
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Democrats complain that given the amount of time they spend with Geraldo, diGenova and Toensing can't possibly be doing their government job.
Democrats cannot fix things in their current state.
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When you see Bradley, you see a naturally diffident man talking about how he would like to run for president and fretting about the distance between his ideal campaign and the real one.
Bradley entered the presidential race.
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And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting.
Nations should fight it out, like chickens in a coop, leaving the scraps for the poor.
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While Podhoretz may be correct in his opinion of Al Sharpton, his comments regarding Sharpton and Jesse Jackson possess a thinly disguised undertone of As he castigates white liberals for assuming that Negroes could do no wrong, his discussion of Sharpton's actions seem to say, Well, what can you expect?
Podhoretz has opinions of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
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Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.
Advertising led the way to market collapse for this product.
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But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch?
No tough times are anticipated in the future, at all.
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If you go, don't forget to buy the illuminating book by its curator, Valerie Steele.
One may be going to a place where purchases can be made.
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Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically inept term.
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(DiGenova says it has since issued five subpoenas and has a hearing scheduled for late next month.)
DiGenova is employed by the court
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(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)
Philip Weiss threw a fit at his own mother.
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Then the electricity hits him again, and the fire rises from his head, from the black leather mask, and he shudders forward and is slammed back against the chair.
He had some very unpleasant things happen to him after being electrocuted.
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Rosenthal, and other conservatives for their flirtations with Farrakhan.
Conservatives are in agreement with Farrakhan.
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What I love about this Jordan thing is that he has embraced an opportunity that could lead to his total failure on a basketball court.
Jordan seems to have embraced the chance to fail on the basketball court.
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I wonder if we actually disagree, or if my solutions just didn't occur to you.
I'm curious about your thought process.
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As long as G.W.'s policies remain ambiguous, every TV ad is a stealth Bush ad.
G.W's policies are disliked by the majority of the country's population.
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This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.
Invoking covert productivity increases is always something to consider.
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Croatia analysts surmise that HDZ is keeping Tudjman alive as a campaign strategy.
The analysts all lived in Croatia.
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The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy.
Clinton's Kosovo policy is a failure.
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Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
Conglomerates believe that they will make the most money by selling serious nonfiction and literary fiction.
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And when it comes from the white right, it's narcissism in the service of hypocrisy.
Things are viewed differently depending on who says them.
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The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney.
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art was looking to hire someone.
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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 only has one mother-in-law.
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Misconception #3: Workfare workers shouldn't do work unionized city workers used to do.
Unionized city workers and workfare workers should be forced to perform the same job by city officials.
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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.
Girls do not like Mad magazine.
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I have a friend who was excluded from a jury because he answered yes to the question, Do you think a man who's been arrested is more likely to be guilty than a man who hasn't been arrested?
Courts are desperate for jurors.
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The postal system was even more important for civil society and democratic politics than for commerce.
The postal system is important for society as a whole.
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According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal.
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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 a new league.
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The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.
People do not prefer obscure, unproduced recordings.
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But my point Who's going to hire him?
They wonder who is going to hire him after this incident.
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There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.
The work does not have similar qualities to that of the four Seasons (1986).
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'If prison is going to be my next home,' he did not quip, 'I'd better get used to this.
He did not quip
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When you run for president, you've got to think of the whole country, not just your own state.
Presidential candidates tend to favor their home territory
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I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work.
My work is of low critical standards.
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And those are just the towns along Lake Como.
Many residents inhabit the shores of Lake Como.
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Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.
Conservative Christians see links between environmentalism and pagan traditions
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So read Slate . A lot.
Slate is popular among the Baby Boomer generation.
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But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes).
NATO is actively rejecting all new applicants and has little interest in expanding.
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Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.
Long-distance rates plummeted with unprecedented speed.
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We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production.
It is impossible to get economies of scale to apply to food production.
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The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.
Orthography is changing in similar way to semantics.
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, I'm with you (thought I must admit Merchant of Venice ain't my all-time favorite.
The author like Merchant of Venice
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The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.
The Americans have not paid the organization.
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(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
I write a column for a major newspaper organization.
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The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.
Vernon Dalhart popularized The Wreck of the Old 1924
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Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?
The internet discusses worst of two evils in the topic of companies merging.
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The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.
Bush probably wasn't ignore morals at all.
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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.
The chair is made of oak.
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Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.
Martha is the CEO of a company called Omnimedia.
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Thanks to current banking regulations, more than 85 percent of U.S. banks currently maintain KYC programs.
KYC programs are maintained in 85% of US banks.
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But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.
The candidate's canned replies were a response chat questions.
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In contrast to the well-oiled Gore machine, Bradley has no staff, message, money, or following.
Bradley is poorly prepared and poorly equipped.
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Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.
At the moment, you have a legitimate gripe
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Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.
The father-son talks that Levy started were somber events.
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(Read William Saletan's to see how the doctors cultivated their common touch.)
Medical evolution happens rapidly.
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Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.
He values multiculturalism over Western Values.
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The reason to see Man on the Moon is Jim Carrey.
Mr. Carrey turned down a role in Man on the Moon.
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' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
I am able to recall it with great accuracy
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But Disney Pooh reaches the world.
Disney Pooh is a fictional character.
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Navel-gazingly yours, Katharine
Katharine occasionally looks at navels.
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I liked Michael Kinsley's article . Here's a political glossary that might be helpful in interpreting future lies.
You might find it helpful to interpret future lies with this political glossary that I have posted on the web.
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We egg on Dennis Rodman, watching him parade like a peacock and break down in tears on national TV.
We watch Dennis Rodman on national TV.
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Presumably, a living, Clintonian Einstein would declare, I cannot believe that God plays Nintendo with the world.
A Clintonian Einstein believes that God plays Nintendo with the world
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Everyone wonders what Starr will do.
Starr is clear about what he'll do and we all know clearly what's next.
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Victorious Couch Potatoes
The Couch Potatoes were victorious.
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There are those who argue passionately that life originated with a single replicated molecule.
A single replicated molecule is what origintated life.
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A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him.
Chinook would have won against the ailing Tinsley.
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And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
Unskilled immigrants are lazy and do not work
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He did so with surety, using the elbow of his bad arm to steady himself at the threshold, then raising both fists in a stretch.
One of his arms is worse than the other
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Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market.
Many people believe that Microsoft holds a monopoly of the OS market.
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Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago.
Getting the best of both worlds, the English Professor was a lady feted highly when the AAUP chapter celebrated it's Jubilee, and she was granted Tenure on the same day.
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He should mind his own lesson.
The boy is prying into other people's business and causing issues.
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He's a schemer, a politician, a calculating populist who has built his career on sexy, attention-getting issues.
He's sexy
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Moreover, to whatever extent you are superior, it is probably the result of genes and attitudes inherited from your parents and not something you created for yourself.
If you are superior, your parents are superior.
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The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable).
The technique of regression analysis has proven to be of great value in the science world.
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Praise goes to Lee's argument, her sensitivity, and her writing.
Lee likes to create argument in all of her writing.
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You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section.
There is no conclusion.
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A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
There is definite proof of the American government causing an explosion in Saudia Arabia.
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Which might suggest that real business news is no more popular than it ever was.
real business news has recently broken countless popularity records.
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3 billion bill for the U.S.
The United States has a three billion dollar bill on the table.
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A renaissance of sociological research in the United Kingdom, as well as the fact that Prime Minister Tony Blair's intellectual guru is sociologist and London School of Economics Dean Anthony Giddens.
Sociological research is popular in the UK
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