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And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me?
Jesse Helms maligned me, saying hurtful things,
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Mavens can discern between makers at a glance.
With just a a quick look at makers, Mavens can tell the difference.
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There are people that just want to get this president (Sen.
the commander in chief is not well liked.
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We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?
The perfectionists in this case are business leaders.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
The pencils have erasers at the top.
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As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same.
Cops are uninterested in finding illegal distributors.
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Women are so large a part of the labor force that it is hard to believe that this could be true of the total if it were not also true of women.
Women make up a large portion of the work force.
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The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.
People must provide a screwdriver for the boxes.
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They may claim this, but their very appearance in these scarves cancels that interpretation.
They appeared in scarves.
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Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby.
Vaccinations were not readily available to previous generations.
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Of course, the magnitude of the threats faced by the United States bears no fixed relation to the size of our economy.
Threats against the U.S. are directly related to economic growth
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Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.
The man who runs Millionaire has very little gravitas.
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But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.
The conservatives are making things up for political reasons.
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The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins.
Chaconne was an animated production without human performers.
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The key ingredient seems to be averageness.
Averageness is only a minor part of the recipe.
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In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity.
Tito was interested in individuality.
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All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else).
The people want to take steroids.
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They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.
The US would like to capture and prosecute him
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How does a former police officer get involved with running a laboratory making illegal speed?
The police officer was in charge of the laboratory operation.
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Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.
Kirstie Alley starred in multiple films the year that Less Frenetic than Lucy, More Mature than Mary came out.
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While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag?
Russia has always treated everyone, from it's poorest citizens to it's prisoners of war, with the utmost kindness and respect.
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USAT : After all, this is the man about whom Carly Simon was rumored to have written the hit 1972 song, You're So Vain.
You're So Vain, a hit song by Carly Simon that debuted in 1972, is still very popular today.
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Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous.
Clinton's virtues turn into vices.
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Of course the little things matter.
Smaller things are unimportant.
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That I don't want it to end.
I want it to continue
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Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.
The airstrikes were carried out in an African country
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(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.
There are at least 19 paragraphs in this document, and each paragraph has dozens or hundreds of words.
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Slate 's take on the culture of impotence.)
nobody knows what Slate's opinion is.
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And in a final act of disintermediation, Son of 695 retaliates against all these mayors and council members who thought they got the drop on It will roll back all taxes and fees increased since July 1999, when I-695 qualified for the ballot.
There were multiple acts of disintermediation.
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Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government.
The socialists lost power
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Mambo Italiano, and my personal favorite, Oooh, Bang, Jiggily Jang.
Ooh is my favorite
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AOL countered that Microsoft had already tried and failed to launch a proprietary online service.
AOL and Microsoft launched a joint proprietary online service recently.
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If McCain emerges as the nominee, Democrats will exploit his domestic weaknesses.
There were zero conceivable worlds in which the Democrats would try to exploit McCain's domestic weaknesses.
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Better health care affects athletic ability directly.
Athletic ability is directly affected by better health care.
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The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal?
Mom's would prefer to get something other than flowers for Mother's Day
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Neither mother nor daughter is made distinctive this time around, except in the most heavy-handed way.
Both are even more distinguishable and readily discernible this time.
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Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.
The Globe's will simply not give up any part of their investigation of them, even after death!
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The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review.
Mr. Michael engaged in inappropriate behavior.
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Physicians will unionize against managed care.
Managed care is not popular with Physicians.
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The report expresses shock at the flagrant illegality of the expenditures.
The transcripts conveyed outrage because of the blatant criminality of the disbursements.
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His viewing procedures are quite advanced.
The viewing procedures are quite advanced and have been in place for years.
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The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense.
Some people think there is an affinity between tourists and pigeons.
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What a country should not apologize for is a basically sound foreign policy.
The country has many flaws but foreign policy is not one of them.
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, I'm with you (thought I must admit Merchant of Venice ain't my all-time favorite.
Merchant of Venice never made it to the stage.
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It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art.
Tom DeLay possessed an idea of better art.
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Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc.
The Return of Modesty was written by Wendy Shalit.
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Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward.
Clinton was gay
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This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.
Mozart concertos have since been reworked using this practice.
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That argument which holds that the attempt to raise saving will end up lowering national income, because consumption will fall, and with it profits, output, and employment.
Increasing spending makes the economy run better overall.
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But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.
The Smithsonian thinks highly of Kennewick Man.
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It is hard to understand how Grisham pulls this off.
Grisham successfully did it.
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We would have relevant professionals--scientists, accountants, engineers, forensic specialists--decide all criminal cases.
All professionals are capable of working on criminal cases.
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It's like campaign-finance reform--the people who control it are products of the system, says online voting evangelist Marc Strassman.
Meaningful reform is not possible.
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How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?
The questions were related to the economy.
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And the United States is also leading the creation of new international the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the North Atlantic Free Trade Association, the World Trade Organization, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The US making several international trade buildings.
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Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45).
The Lewinsky diary, Page 45, is Exhibit A.
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to my aunt's cleaning woman in upstate Pennsylvania and learned to adore the small town with its rows of stores and trees on the sidewalk and only a short walk into the country, in this case up a steep hill,
My aunt does her own cleaning without outside help
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The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core.
Palestrina is the title of an opera
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Spot enforcement, well-publicized with blue flashing lights, is what maintains speed limits on the highway.
Speed limits on the highway are maintained by highway patrolmen with blue flashing lights and spot enforcement
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The example of loyalty and When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman).
Ron Hoffman had worked for Richard Nixon, or Tricky Dick, at one point.
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I stop by Kanter's Printers on 23 rd Street, an address generated by the Crane Web site.
The address came from Google Maps, on the World Wide Web
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Also, Newsweek tells the weird story of Jerry Stuchiner, a high-level Immigration and; Naturalization Service agent alleged to have sold passports to illegal Chinese immigrants.
The Chinese were here legally
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Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...
The individual who got into this quagmire feels that there is still a chance
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Vice President Gore is on the hot seat in the campaign-finance investigation . The Washington Post reported that some of the money Gore raised in phone calls from the White House went to the Clinton-Gore campaign (hard money) instead of the Democratic National Committee (soft money).
Vice President Gore raised money for his campaign.
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If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs.
CNN executives will be fired
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Who can I report disaster fraud to?
No one ever commits disaster fraud
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Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one.
Nobody ever thought Tobey was one of the spinach hawkers or bums he sketched at the downtown Pike Place Public Market.
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As was the case with Reebok, Hilfiger's pursuit of the minority market has exposed him to a backlash (it's probably no accident that Lauren, whose turf he invaded, was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story).
Hilfiger was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story
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But he was abrupt with her--not rude, just abrupt.
He was in a hurry
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The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record.
The student had a long prior record of causing trouble
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They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The
The audience laughed at the adaptation
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Some places are so boring that that's what's comically interesting about Peoria, Encino, Cleveland.
Cleveland is comically interesting because it is more boring than Cincinnati.
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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.
Farrakhan is a lost cause
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Clinton is said to be concerned with shaping a historical legacy, but as may be noted from his failed medical care program, his unpopular anti-Iraq saber rattling, and his largely ignored dialogue on race, the care of business is pretty much all that's wanted of Clinton, too.
Clinton had a great healthcare plan.
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As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors.
The PCs are free
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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 was made completely with dolls.
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You can acquire a second spouse so long as you discard the first one.
It is a good idea to get a second spouse after you have discarded your first one.
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But I can give two illustrations, both from ballets by George Balanchine that I have on tape.
George Balanchine is a hack
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The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
The Torah is sacred to Christians.
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Not all the time-wasters in the Pentagon are civilians.
Non-civilians waste time in the Pentagon
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As Vecsey puts it, women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.
Women will always eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.
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And so a comedian's success creates his failure.
A comedian can become successful again after failure.
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Yes, our parents had many of the same sexual traumas we did but, no, we don't want to hear about them in detail.
We are open to listening about our parents past traumas.
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Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion.
$11 billion in shareholder dollars is eleven billion.
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News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom.
It's likely that the continuing boom will be over before two decades have passed.
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In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.
The paintings were created before the study.
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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 that aliens were giving him advice through New York Times articles.
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An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification.
The president of Taiwan is Lee Teng-hui.
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In biotechnology, as in telecommunications, intellectual-property law remains at an embryonic stage.
Intellectual-property is well protected in all fields.
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Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.
Dole is a man.
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Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little.
Drug use is depicted as being cool in teen films
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The basic premise of this line is that the findings of faith and reason are not at odds--only their methods are.
This line's basic premise is that faith and reason are at odds.
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Pouring their hearts out to reporters is the only therapy Republican politicians can get.
14 types of therapy are available to Republican politicians
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They wouldn't do it with just any woman.
your typical woman would suffice
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Tysons Corner touts the advantages of buying gift certificates online--you can save time and purchase them from the comfort of your PC--and it even advertises special benefits that can only be received with online orders, such as special shipping rates.
Tysons Corner states that buying gift certificates online is more expensive and takes more time.
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One Because they're cyber sages.
Cyber sages are said to live inside of computers.
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(If you want to see the original of the pose, you can cross the Mall to the National Gallery, where Jacques-Louis David's 1812 Napoleon in His Study hangs.)
The painting was created in 1812
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They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.
The $750 million spent on litigation in one year was done by multiple accounts.
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Newsweek reports that JFK Jr. actively explored a Senate run before Hillary Clinton expressed interest.
JFK Jr. Beat Hillary Clinton for a senator seat.
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This threatens to become a modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act, which was used during the Cold War to exclude lefty writers and intellectuals.
The McCarran-Walter Act came about after the Cold War was long over.
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