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This is all pure high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.
The snobbism is a good thing.
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If the job were held by someone other than Tripp, would it pay any less or involve any more work?
The Job belonged to Tripp
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Observers said the Y2K bug's threat 1) was averted thanks to diligent preparation; 2) had been exaggerated by greedy programmers so that customers would commission expensive repairs; and 3) won't pass until companies and governments have used their backroom systems, which were not repaired as thoroughly as critical pro...
Observers said the Y2K bug crashed the web for months.
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Spark was in her prime when she wrote Memento Mori . As she draws closer to mortality (may it be many novels away!)
Memento Mori, a book written by Spark, was very popular.
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Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants.
The president couldn’t focus
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At its worst, it's become a new refuge for the untalented musician, a fact that Ryan Adams from the band Whiskeytown owns up to in the song Faithless Street: I had started this damn country band/ 'cause punk rock was too hard to sing.
Musicians without talent find refuge there
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Did this really make her beautiful?
Everyone believed it made her beautiful.
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On Cultural The Wilson-Brustein Discussion , moderated by Anna Deavere Smith (Town Hall, New York).
Anna Deavere Smith facilitated the discussion.
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Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode.
A scene where Van Zandt portrayed a Soprano soldier revealed a kind of joy that was missing from the rest of the episode.
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How come you give George a pass?
George had a pass
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Twenty-five days after that conversation, Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office and told him face to face that he didn't want him as a running mate.
Johnson did not like Kennedy as a person.
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Jesse Ventura to obstruct Pat Buchanan's run for the Reform Party nomination.
Jesse Ventura is trying to stop Buchanan's nomination.
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The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.
School vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and abstinence education were the most well received parts of the proposals.
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But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
He has never seen the ring.
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When the American diplomat who supervises the international peace monitors in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre, the Yugoslav (i.e.
The American diplomat in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre.
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Hannah was recently spotted in New York wearing a hat with a star on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a T-shirt with--are you sitting down?
Hannah spotted a T-shirt with a big apple on it.
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The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?
The memory is just what's happening now.
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MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.
MI divides intelligence into seven different areas
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Slate 's take on the culture of impotence.)
Slate spoke against the culture of impotence
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[E]ven after being taken down a notch or two, [cities] will remain, by virtue of their concentrations of energy and intellect, at the center of the American political imagination.
American policics lack the imagination and intellect.
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I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude.
People can change their minds over time.
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
I don't consider that I was running a laboratory.
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Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.
Strikes can improve profits overall.
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I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow.
Clinton will be speaking in Tokyo tomorrow.
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Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality).
Many people know the differnce between a falsehood and a lie.
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The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth.
Every place can be broken into.
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In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.
it was impossible for him to have written a detailed review of how the people were spending their money
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Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances.
Republicans love everything about him
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First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.
We are right whenever both sides are angry.
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The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy.
The narrator believes the Republican position is reasonable
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The world would have conceded the claims of both gays and women without the student occupation of a single lecture hall anywhere in the world.
The world would have ignored women and gays either way.
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It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism.
Believing in your work can ruin your career.
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At least it gives the film a surprise ending.
This movie was too predictable, making real the statement that you can't get something from nothing.
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I suppose you could argue that a best-dressed list encourages women to dress more beautifully or that a list of the greatest works of journalism of the 20 th century will motivate those who didn't make it to try a bit harder during the next 100 years.
Women are inspired by best dressed lists
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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
The propaganda examples are plentiful
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He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened.
He too was strange like the company he kept.
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First of all, my extreme apologies for the spelling mistake.
The person was happy with his error free work.
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The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference.
Israel has benefited from its consistent policies.
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They thrust their fingers within an inch or two of priceless paintings, pointing out the obvious.
The people made unique observations.
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What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax).
Pollution tax revenue all goes to better causes.
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The baby gets new toys every day, because used toys are immediately discarded.
Toys that have already been played with are thrown in the trash.
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Burn How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet ,by Michael Wolff (Simon & Schuster).
Simon and Schuster published Michael Wolff's book
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The word fundamentally in the previous paragraph carries a lot of weight, but it is important to think of what is fundamental.
The word fundamentally is unimportant.
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Even when Forrest Sawyer is sitting in, it's still World News Tonight With Peter Jennings . Just because Johnny goes on vacation, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson doesn't suddenly become The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . The task of a guest host is delicate.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson may be called The Tonight Show With Jay Leno when Leno guest hosts
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There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.
The scene that was pathetic occurred in Los Angeles
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The heroes of the movie are a man and woman who escape the system with their baby and are going to live like a traditional family.
The couple end up living a long, happy life as a conventional family..
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In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.
Curious people come to watch Mayakovsky do healthy things.
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They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.
Flight is considered a metaphor for escape.
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This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay.
They will eventually pay.
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The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.
Options traders everywhere benefited from the rule.
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Does his behavior add up to grounds for removal from office?
There were many supporters for him who wanted to elect him to another term.
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But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.
Controversial works of art were regularly sent to the museum's cavernous storage facilities.
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I'm about as big a media hound as anyone, McCain told one newspaper, but I've turned down at least 500--maybe 600 or 700--requests to go on talk shows on this issue.
McCain has talked to hundreds of reporters who work for different newspapers, and turned down a similar number of requests.
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[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture.
Peanuts writer disliked culture
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Entire conferences and whole scholarly volumes have been devoted to this catechism, with roughly the same results.
Multiple meetings and writings are focused on this catechism.
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So fascinated that it ran not one, but two stories on the apparently bottomless topic, one in the Money and Business section and one in the Week in Review.
The newspaper ran the story twice in two different sections.
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As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed.
Monet was sad when the other Impressionists died.
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If U.S. cities were abandoned tomorrow, would the survival rate of our public buildings be better or worse?
U. S. Cities are all abandoned today.
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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.
Stage Coach companies were subsidized so that milk could be transported.
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What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.
Brazile takes cheap shots.
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They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.
White folklore is known as a source of black fiction.
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Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
Bill Gates's company started in 1975
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While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine.
Poisoning canines is illegal.
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I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns.
The prayers of the priests and the nuns were uninspiring.
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Negotiations with the powerful postal unions begin in August, with contracts due to expire in November.
The postal unions represent a substantial sum of retirement investment accounts.
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The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start Ms.
Smith thinks there are simple rules for truth-telling
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She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans.
She is obviously a loyal conservative
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They cut taxes, they helped balance the budget, and they're putting people on welfare back to work.
They were able to cut taxes and put people on welfare back to work.
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You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together.
The fact that his genius and self-destruction are bound together makes his art more powerful.
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People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally.
Darwinian theory is about what happens in regard to passing on human genes.
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
The girl said men with guns were at the apartment.
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Rudy plans to consolidate his lead in the burbs by pushing school vouchers, while Hillary will tap into health-care frustrations and make the election a national contest.
Rudy has plans to acquire votes.
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Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.
David Cook disagrees with the practice of medical students practicing on freshly deceased patients
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Krugman would also have found out that the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is not representative of the way things Bonds are important, and what businessmen are doing is important.
Sometimes the behavior of the bonds market is purely random.
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Such a state, with a constitution and identical rights for all citizens, could guarantee long-term security in a way that the current fake peace doesn't.
The constitution is being reformed.
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[Hersh has] disassembled and obliterated his own career and reputation.
Hersh was accused of a crime.
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Spark was in her prime when she wrote Memento Mori . As she draws closer to mortality (may it be many novels away!)
Spark wrote Memento Mori when she was younger.
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Besides, complains New York 's Mark Stevens, there are more dresses on display than paintings.
Mark Stevens now lives in Florida.
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One had to separate the relationship, whatever it was, between Monica, et al.
Monica has never been in a relationship
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But none of these revelations improves the case that Hollywood Communism was a significant threat to democracy.
The relevations don't improve the case that Hollywood Communism was a threat to democracy.
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Igave a lecture on the American economy in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month.
I talked about the United States economy in Israel.
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While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.
Frightful headlines which include words such as huge, powerful, and fast, can disturb the public peace.
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How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
The size of a jail cell has no bearing on cruel and unusual punishment.
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It seems suitable in Saudi Arabia, for example, where women can't vote, since it squashes public expression along with hair.
Women can vote in Saudi Arabia.
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The other, largely neglected Imply that the competition, as currently configured, is improbably upscale.
The competition is not possible due to unachievably high financial factors.
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Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.
Shooting has caused damage to the building.
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I'd say it was the second number.
The first digit was thought to be selected before the second.
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Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.
Income redistribution could make future generations poorer.
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we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990.
The Metro Finer Recliner is priced at $990
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But he's more comfortable behind the scenes
Behind the scenes is more comfortable for him
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The Jerusalem Post pointed to a novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel (see International Papers for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse.
Risk aversion is unrelated to DNA
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(The predictable lesson--justice isn't cut and dry--clogs the film's gears, says the Washington Post 's Eric Brace.)
The film did not do well in theaters.
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If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom.
Spock did not run for political office.
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They do not clearly condemn as racist the actions, sometimes violent, that white ethnics in Chicago resorted to in the 1960s to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
Chicago whites in the 1960s kept blacks out of their neighborhoods
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In the 1980s, Kodak opened a major research center in Tokyo, staffed with Japanese engineers, and started a joint venture in which Canon made copiers sold under the Kodak name.
Kodak chose Tokyo for expansion.
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But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.
The portion of the penalty that is owed should only be one-tenth of the size, if derived in a trustworthy manner.
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So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him.
High ranking officials had no problem undercutting the $700,000 Brown used.
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Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.
The film is popular in certain male circles.
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Or he may You're in the wrong place.
It was difficult to tell if they were in the correct place.
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The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.
The winner of the Hackathon was determined by the board of directors at Slate.
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