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Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).
Criticizing the computers doesn't do anything useful.
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I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?
The speaker missed the entire performance.
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Lewis won the close bout in a unanimous decision , making him the first undisputed titleholder since 1992.
Lewis won a competetion in the early 90s.
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Yet the Frenchman's travels might not have been possible if many stage-coach companies had not been subsidized--through Congress--so that mail could be carried, and representatives travel home, to remote districts.
It also helped representatives travel for work.
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We should lead by example and suasion.
They believe in using rhetoric to influence others
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And there--in no small part as a result of that history--it has found itself with very little leverage.
It has a lot of leverage
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It's not like we want it by mid-February.
Mid-February is not when we want it by.
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One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S.
Untitled V looks like a bunch of repeated letter M.
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From home, I call my office three or four times a day.
I am the boss and I am never really off from work because I have no superior at work.
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In his Feb. 3 from the Clinton trial, he writes, History and the American people have already rendered their verdict.
Most Americans may have already rendered their verdict on Clinton before the trial began.
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She is hauled away, presumably to be killed.
She will presumably be saved.
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our casual voodoo the pleasure to give pain that gives pleasure of pain, unmerited, cruel, free creation
The pain that gives pleasure is formal voodoo
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What is worrisome is the failure of pollsters themselves to learn from the history of their profession.
Pollsters have learned a lot from the history of their profession.
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Since communism closed shop in Russia, all the volunteers have disappeared.
Communism ended in Russia.
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Death of a Salesman , his greatest play, is about the devastating effects of professional failure.
People enjoy Death of a Salesman
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Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money.
Lucasfilm's has investments in Galoob.
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Richard Lamm, who attempted to wrest leadership of the party away from Perot, is a classic Greater New England progressive, as is former Connecticut Gov.
Perot overwhelmed Lamm and maintained control of the party.
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and that's when you get hit by the meteorite.
The small meteorite from space caused some property damage.
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In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?
They should have stopped some of the private law practice.
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Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.
Bush hit back at Bauer
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It's Sunday, what channel is this?
The television is turned on and an unknown show is currently being shown.
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But few would discard laws against organ selling.
Regulations regarding the market for internal body parts could be important for maintaining adequate supplies.
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In particular, an increase in the savings rate will translate into higher investment after all, because the Fed will make sure that it does.
People tend to invest their savings.
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Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning.
He ran attack ads against his opponents
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The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals.
Chan had to catch massive Ming vases that fell to the ground.
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But I begin to see in the public's indifference to the myriad accusations of presidential adultery that Weisberg speaks for the majority.
I started to see that indifference to the many accusations of presidential adultery was the general attitude of the public.
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As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee.
Arnold Schwarzenegger still drives a Humvee today.
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Bombing the crap out of Third World countries and aspirin factories when you need a quick pick-me-up at the polls.
Bombing countries is an unpopular position in the polls.
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If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.
Doing a better job would decrease the value and price for citizenships.
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Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.
The candidate lost Republican support soon after.
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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.
Mitch McConnel is an ally to McCain.
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The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously.
this could show signs of a trend
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The language is lackluster, the pacing leaden, the cliches plentiful, and the surprises few--no, not the campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses (Well, yes, but I'm thinking of something else here.)
One tends to have a negative view toward most speeches in general.
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It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.
The situation is unique enough where it does not happen very often.
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Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires.
People ignored Bettelheim's authority because he inspired so little.
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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 only a few hypotheses.
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If NBC wanted to clone its sitcoms, you think it could aim higher than Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth , says USA Today 's Matt Roush.
USA Today 's Matt Roush thinks there are better sitcoms than Suddenly Susan to model future sitcoms after.
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(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.)
The author dislikes their name.
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Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
Satellite images have convinced scientists that a vast internal ocean has been roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
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News zooms in) for their Kenneth Starr cover stories.
Kenneth Starr is famous.
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Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair?
The POTUS and FLOTUS would be better off focusing on the country.
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I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.
It wouldn't be worth the trouble to breaking the peso commitment now.
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[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them.
Only one person is being discussed.
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The editor published the study to help Clinton.
The study was published to help Clinton.
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But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.
Some people think some civilized Englishmen are evil.
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If car insurance were a tax-free benefit, it wouldn't be surprising to find employers picking low-cost insurers who make you visit preferred mechanics and skimp on coverage for Land Rovers and minivans.
Being an Insurance provider in a world where insurance is a mandated tax free benefit, would cause insurance companies to always give the benefit of the doubt to the insured, offering high payouts in most instances.
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Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.
Muslim groups have always avoided living as the Prophet Mohammed did.
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(Clinton to We're basically following your game plan.
Clinton told them he was refusing to follow their game plan.
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Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).
Her decision to opt to do her recital in the much grander Fisher Hall was applauded by the presenter.
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They take on a cartoonish, uniform cheeriness.
They take on an attitude of good spirits because it is the holidays
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It's more scary than funny, especially to the brain tumor guy when he finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch.
The brain tumor guy found out that his nurse is Raquel Welch.
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A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...
Let us... signals that the speaker is a leader-preacher.
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You dropped the ball big time in your response to Doubting, about the able-bodied using stalls for the disabled.
The author thinks the topic was handled well and all important points covered.
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Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques.
Sante Kimes has a typical parenting style
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The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon.
Berverly is married to Tim LaHaye.
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The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about.
His listeners focused on the fact that he was lying.
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They end up on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired . They foreshadow the world in which we're all either symbolic analysts or hamburger flippers.
They ended up on the back page of Vanity Fair and Wired.
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Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl.
Knight, CEO of the company, cut short and aborted his attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
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USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.
There are many USA snapshots and regular graphs.
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sadistic (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). A few critics take the audience's boos as evidence of New York opera-goers' conservatism.
critics disagree with the audience
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Albright says her parents expressed vivid recollections of childhood Easter and Christmas celebrations . These recollections may well have been true.
Albright's parents described detailed memories of holiday celebrations
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By contrast, many nerds can be handsome (Gore) or self-confident to the point of arrogance (Gates, Gingrich).
Nerds are uniformly the same and have very little variation.
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The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.
That woman, talk about a golden oldie, was my ex, which caused some upset.
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She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.
MacDonald is currently part of Culturebox
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But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.
The real compettion should be the 10th anniversary gift.
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Richard Holbrooke was confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations.
Richard Holbrooke failed to become an ambassador.
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However, many mental-health professionals argue that a dimensional model makes more sense and would more closely mirror the real world.
According to many mental-health professionals, a dimensional model would be better to use.
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Let me enlighten Almost every time I need to use the disabled stall (I am in a wheelchair), I have to wait for an AB to leave, and they all apologize meekly when they leave.
The author frequently uses the restroom intended for disabled people.
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You can catch the final nine hours this evening.
It is possible to catch the final nine hours tonight.
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Newsweek also lets Martha Stewart describe her successful foray into Web marketing.
Web marketing wasn't one of Martha Stewart's strong suits.
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In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism.
Archer wrote an article on the Washington Post accusing democrats.
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And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.
Upon remarriage, the problems of thrift, widow's curses, and other conditions related to the spinster lifestyle are meaningless.
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An article accuses the press of overlooking John McCain's domestic-policy gaffes.
John McCain had domestic-policy gaffes.
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This column, as my first in the Strange Bed, is free of history.
My column is going to be about a frivolous topic.
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He was 65 at the time.
She is Celebrating her 65th birthday today.
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Kill 'em with kindness, and they don't know where to look.
Kindness lacks the ability to cause meaningful change in anyone's demeanor.
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[This last is a dig at Jesse Jackson.]
Jesse Jackson was criticized
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This is the mutual contempt, hinted at but not developed in this valuable book, that haunts us today.
We are the best of friends
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It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.
His ideas are misguided
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Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.
The rate of inflation was higher than it had been in years.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
Tout de Suite was released in the 1960s
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Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off.
You must keep your helmet on and uphold the Mandalorian code of honor
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Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ...
Critics hated Berliner's movie.
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Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.
Soderbergh believes dramatic gestures are important.
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But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia.
It is difficult to watch Raging Bull due to it's close-in cinematography.
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How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
A big jail cell might not feel like a punishment.
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The British company that recently won fame for cloning a sheep is reportedly on the verge of deriving human blood plasma from sheep and cows.
Cloning a sheep recently won fame and fortune for a British company.
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In this climate popular hostility was trained against powerful private interests and gave new life to anti-Masonry as a political movement.
It was a peaceful climate.
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Fashion is as acceptable in France as any imaginative work, and criticism about it has certainly flourished there.
Inside the Fashion world of France, it's popularity is so high that nobody has anything bad to say about it.
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What to do about that, I don't know.
What to do about that, I could care less.
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A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.
The chief executive and congress work together on everything
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So what's a randy president to do?
Presidents may have a harder time than others when it comes to dealing with their lusty desires.
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This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.
Bernhard Riemann made guess that could impact the structure natural numbers.
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) to keep him out of their way.
He is welcomed by them.
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Such a sudden collapse of so much mammary matter could possibly result in some kind of Hollywood black hole.
A Hollywood black hole is impossible.
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I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles.
They have never been a fan of Richard Dawkins or Steven Pinker.
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With this retrospective, the newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig a k a Weegee (1899-1968) is judged a technical virtuoso, a great artist, and an inspiration to his followers.
Arthur Fellig was a great photographer.
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The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.
The building goes against Reagan's rhetoric regarding big government.
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This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
Justice Lewis Powell's explanation was offered to placate both sides.
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But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
Conservatives and Liberals prefer different kinds of vouchers.
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