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N otting Hill opens with an superfluous voice-over that sets the scene and makes certain that the audience is oriented.
The voice-over at the beginning of Notting Hill fails miserably to inform the viewer of the setting.
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The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.
The analogous leaped from national to supernatiol regulations tofay.
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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 admitted what women and gays were claiming without occupation.
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The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.
The reason for their A national test could disprove claims of improvement and be embarassing.
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The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.
It was Republicans who lead the impeachment of Clinton.
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To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.
George Gilder wrote many books
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John F. Kennedy repeated it 16 times in his Inaugural Address, and Richard Nixon has it 22 times in his second one.
John F. Kennedy repeated it in his Inaugural Address
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What the press can do is cover leaking more aggressively.
The press can aggressively cover leaks.
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You don't need to play Mike Wallace and demolish Leuchter on camera.
Mike Wallace would destroy Leuchter on camera.
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In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.
There is a $17 billion foundation that will have to give away only $170 per quarter
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John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France.
In 1828 the American postal system had less than half as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain.
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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Starr's increase in popularity causes Clinton's popularity it decrease.
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An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos.
The Negroes in the story are from Detroit
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The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.
Loral's revelation spurred the Pentagon's investigation.
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Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.
It was much more difficult for countries to participate in the late 19th century than in the late 20th century.
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It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.
Davis and Shorter played against Hancock's electric bass and Carter's ride cymbal.
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The McCain campaign has more specific evidence of success.
The McCain campaign has published their evidence of success.
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He winked broadly, then gave her a wide, rakish smile that lit her soul with excitement.
The man was a real catch
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The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .
A war criminal was arrested while traveling abroad.
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The tide has turned so much that one might wonder whether Wilson needs to make such a fuss about the unity of knowledge.
Wilson makes a fuss when they are nervous.
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Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention
Clinton is sensitive to criticism.
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You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.
Black studies is the name of a movie.
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N otting Hill opens with an superfluous voice-over that sets the scene and makes certain that the audience is oriented.
The voice-over at the beginning of the production is that of an older woman.
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What Debate Shows Do When There's No On The McLaughlin Group , Pat Buchanan enjoys a furiously heated nonargument with Mort Kondracke, which reminds Pundit Central of Alfred Marshall's question about which blade of a scissors does the cutting.
People tend to loose interest in the crazy show after a while.
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Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)?
The author says the army will be raised by wolves.
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Nickles advocated a compromise, and Lott expressed interest in Yugoslavia's proposal for a lightly armed U.N. peacekeeping force in Kosovo rather than a fully equipped NATO force.
Compromise but charged compromise which favors one's self is wanted by Nickles.
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The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline.
The Czech expat wrote a book.
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That is labor's real job, the very core purpose of a union.
The union lacked a core purpose.
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Bill Clinton is a master of buttering up journalists by quoting their books and articles back to them.
Bill Clinton reads journalists' books cover to cover
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A two-hour look at the evolution of underwear, the special is as silly as it sounds.
The special covers both men and female underwear.
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Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.
I enjoy smoking indoors.
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(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)
The legitimacy of the governor's popularity was questioned by Clinton.
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I do know that a couple of mornings with the Mach 3 has just about wiped the smirk off my face.
The author works with the Mach 3 in the evening.
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The Pentagon told CNN &amp
CNN was the only one the Pentagon told.
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They concluded it was caused by the driver's loss of control.
There wasn;t a conclusion.
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He is preaching to the kinds of middle Americans that liberal activists long ago gave up for dead.
He has learned how to reach middle Americans that activists on the left had given up on.
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It's interesting to note that of the 21 pundits who held forth on tobacco legislation this weekend, only Jack Germond professes to currently being a smoker.
Only 1 out of the 21 experts actually smoke tobacco.
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The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record.
The honor student had a 4.0 GPA
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Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.
A gavone is of higher caliber than an Italian schmuck.
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You can fast the next day.
You must eat something the next day.
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It would be very interesting to perform the same experiment with, say, medical journals instead of economics journals.
The experiment was done on physics journals.
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If there is a good reason, it has to do with our final question.
This has to do with our starting questions.
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What makes Linux enthralling from a tech-head's point of view is that it is based on Unix standards that have been around for decades.
Linux is based on Unix
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No way he'd be with her if this wasn't an instructional sex video!
The couple will never see each other again after finishing making the video because of their difference in size.
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And every tournament game receives this treatment.
The speaker feels that all tournament games are treated similarly.
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Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.
Walter Goodman believes that Ferraro makes a lot of money working at Crossfire.
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She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ...
She spent time traveling in India.
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Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.
Egoyan decided to adapt and direct the book with a level of devotion that would make a priest blush.
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But bizarrely, 1.7 million of those votes were for Kemal Ataterk.
Kemal Ataterk did not prevail in the election.
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Indeed, Banks has written a useful survey of African-American scholars and writers and the ways in which they have worked throughout the history of the republic.
The survey is about the future, not the past.
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How does the high-minded dismissal work?
I prefer being in the dark about the high-minded dismissal.
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The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.
The described study was also given to middle age adults.
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Perhaps, then, corporate rebirth is a fitting tag line.
Corporate rebirth is bad
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Heston has all the physical equipment--brain, voice, good looks--but not the hunger.
Heston is intelligence, attractive, and has a nice voice.
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I am not an intolerant person, having grown up in New York City, where one man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Living in New York City makes poeple more tolerant of others.
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Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ...
Charles Isherwood fails to make a case for the reexamination of this landmark play.
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What if they just don't have feelings?
There is no doubt that they have feelings
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I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.
They waited to hear the outside door clank shut.
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Unfortunately, mine were no less vocal in their objections to being kicked out of our bed at those ages than when they were infants.
Children object to being kicked out of parents beds
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He's a freakish Peter Pan--the juvenile delinquent who wouldn't grow up.
He is fun and exciting to be around
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Our technological improvements have dramatically slowed natural selection.
The pace of natural selection is growing faster
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In a poll of 773 chief executives in 23 countries, consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide found that most think productivity peaks around age 43.
Middle aged employees are productive.
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It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.
Good health is only appreciated by the elderly.
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If increasing democratization is the test for access to the international-trading system, China has flunked.
China has unlimited access to the international-trading system.
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Indeed, there are dozens of clinical experiments showing that high doses of calcium either arrest bone loss or even build bone in older women.
Calcium is detrimental to bones.
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For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's.
Anything can be compared
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Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.
Economic slumps are punishments for bad behavior
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Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
all the cells in a fetus are the same.
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In a market of 10,000 stocks, short-term prices will rise and fall for an infinite variety of reasons, very few of which have anything to do with a company's real productivity or value.
A stock's rise and fall in value is not correlated to its actual performance or evaluation.
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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.
It will likely not be influential for policy in the future
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The end of the Cold War has freed them to pursue humanitarian The United States now can be the world's policeman, so it should be.
The United States were the world's policemen before the Cold War.
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An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21;
People with disabiltiies are unqualfied regardless of age.
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Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.
Schumer is D'Amato
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What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.
Ledbetter doesn't understand that people have lots more options, such as youtube, and aren't reliant upon PBS any more.
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Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it.
He was suffering from an incurable form of cancer, and is still fighting now.
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Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
The money may not be valid.
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Critics point out, however, that neither the Federal Election Commission nor the state of Arizona has certified any standards for Internet voting.
Critics point out that neither the state of Arizona nor the Federal Election Commission has certified any standards for Internet voting.
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His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season.
Slate stays out of politics
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He's obviously spending too much time online.
They thought he should be spending more time online.
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European national leaders know they've got to tackle their deficits, but none of them wants the heat for cutting featherbedding or generous social-payment systems.
Social programs cost less for the Europeam governemnt to run without any cuts.
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The prototypical criminal turned out to be way too handsome.
Criminals tend to be very ugly in appearance
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Mixed reviews for the Broadway debut of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
The critics were unanimous in their praise for Horton Footes new play.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The decision was made on November 10, and was then challenged.
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*The scalpers-and-brokers point was brought to Chatterbox's attention by Randolph Cohen's brother Andrew, who is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse.
Andrew Cohen is an assistant professor at Boston College
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Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...
Critics had glowing praise for the sets and choreography.
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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.
Food from other countries is loved by many.
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Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?
Humans are responsible for cows and fowl being in pain.
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But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.
In this instance, they are referring to their newly purchased phone.
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Time describes honor killings in Jordan, which comprise a quarter of the Arab nation's homicides.
Time brought the issue to light Because they received many shocking letters from citizens in the country.
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The play is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind, says the New York Times ' Brantley.
The playwrights who created the play are not very skilled.
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Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again.
Everyone watches Davey and Goliath over and over.
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The Los Angeles Times told readers that the real news was the wall-to-wall press throng at the news conference.
The Los Angeles Times was at the news conference.
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Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.
Reagan thought that the War Powers act applied when he sent troops to several different places.
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It depends on how you score it.
A positive scoring would mean it was a success.
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a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
SANE/FREEZE is a group in regards to disarmament.
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Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries.
There was a deadline to ratify the treaty.
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Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.
concluding the old testament was written by extraterrestrials seems very rational.
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2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus.
The Antichrist is meant to resemble Jesus Christ.
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Prior to its alliance with the government, the PDFA merely hogged the drug debate.
The PDFA hogged the drug debate before it allied with the government.
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Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.
Students later moved onto red wines.
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