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Maybe even Al Gore will soon exalt with a broad smile the vibrant U.S. ecology.
Gore is not seen as an important figure and checkpoint in the progress of U.S. Ecology.
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Good Kids watch less television.
Good Kids don't watch as much TV as others.
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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.
Allowing compulsives is not politically cost effective.
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But, come to think of it, she does look a bit pale.
The woman in question has rosy cheeks currently.
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Spins on the monetary 1) It will make Europe the United States' new economic rival.
The adoption of the Euro will begin a rivalry between Europe and the United States.
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Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas.
This building has more than one floor.
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It's not our job to police the whole world , says the realist.
One group can't police the world.
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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.
There are different periods of this artist's work.
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Then, when the groups learned of one another's existence, the boys immediately drew lines in the sand.
It was socially correct for the boys to draw lines in the sand.
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Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.
The person referred to sends their data to another Internet user about three times per week.
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On the rare occasions the service is queried, it invokes the Dead President.
The Dead President is connected to the service.
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Also, the semiannual Home Design supplement insists that simplicity--incredibly expensive simplicity, that is--is chic.
The Home Design supplement was highly regarded among industry professionals.
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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.
Humans are designed to be entirely rational.
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The charities, Paris adds, don't endorse the product at all.
The charities thoroughly endorse all of the products.
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The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role.
Gore is quoted in the story.
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What's wrong with informing certain segments of the electorate that your opponent is using the feel-good rhetoric of solutions to pull a fast one at their expense?
The author has informed the electorate of wrongdoings.
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We will all sleep better at night knowing that our commander in chief's libido is compartmentalized, and that he's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants just to get his Iraqs off.
Our commander in chief has been seeing several specialists recently who have helped him with his libido issues.
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Navel-gazingly yours, Katharine
Katharine uniquely ended her thoughts with "navel-gazingly yours."
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You can fast the next day.
Today is not the last day that you can abstain from eating.
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This means a housing strategy that shifts more decisively in the direction it has been inching under Clinton.
This direction is what is best for the country.
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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.
The citizenships have value.
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Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.
no one has been injured and there's no need to evacuate.
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His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services.
Payment will still be required for preventive services.
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Now Clinton risks reversing, at least partially, the actual, practical process that brought him the caseload declines he's crowing about today.
Clinton is not at risk of reversing anything.
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Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up.
Increasing consumer demand would likely result in shrinking the global economy.
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Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue.
Gloria Steinem made an announcement.
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If I lose, then it's a reflection on the whole family.
Losing would harm the family's social status.
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The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not?
The girl has recently joined the The United States Marine Corps.
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Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.
Pro-choice advocates will learn an important lesson from the Fitzsimmons affair.
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From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.
There are many different perspectives on Clinton getting with the program.
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After the injection they--honestly--seem rather depressed.
This lasts for many weeks.
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Membership in this group would be defined in a possession-neutral way.
Group membership is defined in a possessive way.
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He recently said that a Washington state initiative to require trigger locks was written by Satan.
He referenced Satan in his statement.
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Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?
There was more than one counterpart in this situation.
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Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen.
Fisherman ignored the strength of the storm.
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The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.
Alcohol stores are within easy reach of most of the U.S. public.
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(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
The analogy suits the comparison of fiction and nonfiction very well.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Kahn's series about grains has only three parts.
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Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa
Owens has multiple women in his life.
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A recent article in Science claimed to rebut Noam Chomsky's theory that our capacity for language is hard-wired in a particular--and uniquely human--module of the brain.
The article in Science served to reinforce Chomsky's theory about language.
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But because the Net gets clogged and packets are waylaid, the sound quality is low and interruptions are common.
There are few interruptions.
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This was the 10 th study since 1975--and all studies showed similar problems.
All 10 studies revealed similar issues.
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: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden).
The drawings at Windsor Castle are mostly on parchment paper.
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The eternal shortage of judges means that some cases are adjudicated peremptorily.
There has never been a lack of judges.
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Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure.
Forks will have limited funds to work with.
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By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?
The author had a very painful death.
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None of the Jewish groups has reversed its support for Pollard's release.
The Jewish groups were afraid of backlash for waffling.
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Cold Warriors like Kissinger hardly argued that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended Soviet credibility.
Kissinger doesn't believe the Cuban Missile Crisis hurt the Soviet Union.
entailment
It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
Backlash can be flashy.
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I'm prepared to say what is desirable, he tells him.
He told him he will say whatever is necessary.
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Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing.
Storytelling is undertaken as a professional endeavor.
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The Justice Department reportedly is investigating whether the Democratic National Committee funded Ron Carey's campaign in exchange for Teamster funding of the Clinton campaign . Republicans are demanding a special prosecutor and promising congressional investigations.
The Democratic National Committee is not under investigation.
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At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk.
The salesclerk could not help find a dress that could fit the large woman.
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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.)
Weiss asserted that Farrow was unprofessional, and could not be trusted.
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A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line.
Jackie Kennedy only stayed on the line for a few seconds.
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The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent.
At one time, the empires of Islam and China stood at the top of the world's stage as global powers.
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It is hard to imagine a smaller step than the one Greenspan took.
Greenspan took another tiny step in the same direction.
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Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like ...
Katz does not know how to write articles.
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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.
He was on a fiscal workgroup in the 1970s.
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But Milosevic, in turn, may have underestimated Clinton's agility.
Clinton's maneuverability was overestimated.
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As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.
She revealed this intentionally.
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The Dow Jones industrial average topped 7,000 . Financial reporters, while proclaiming once again that the optimists have been vindicated, are having more and more trouble finding anyone on Wall Street who was this optimistic.
Wall Street was celebrating the Dow Jones' high average while financial reporters sulked about their incorrection predictions.
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The sportswriters were tapping on their laptops.
The writers used laptops.
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Group is involved in joint ventures with Ford and Nynex.)
The group is coming out with a new vehicle.
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Analysts consider Jiang a clumsy weakling compared with Deng, and are debating whether 1) he will continue Deng's reforms or return to authoritarianism and 2) he can consolidate power or will be outmaneuvered by rivals.
Leaders are most effective when they are clumsy and weak as opposed to authoritative and strong.
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The modern mistake is to think that important things must be planned, sponsored, reviewed, or licensed by the government.
The government plans, sponsors, reviews, and licenses events.
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).
The film is 2 hours long.
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Perhaps he put soma into our drinking water.
Water cannot be drank.
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Nash pioneered game theory, became schizophrenic, recovered, then won a Nobel Prize late in life.
Nash's chaotic life eventually led to winning a Nobel Prize.
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Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.
These were obviously made by the thousands in a factory.
contradiction
If it really wants to balance the budget it should just do so, rather than passing feel-good laws that say the budget should be balanced.
The laws are easy to pass.
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But skeptics suggest a darker that the Lippo fee was a payoff to Hubbell to keep quiet about Whitewater.
There were some nefarious dealings happening concerning Lippo.
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The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.
The mafia continues to persist, even to this day.
contradiction
Of course they have delighted voters by goosing popular social programs with extra millions.
They have not given any money to social programs.
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( Post defectors include Celestine Bohlen, Gwen Ifill, Julia Preston, Michael Specter, Patrick Tyler, Patti Cohen, and David Richards--who defected back.
There were at least seven defectors from The Post.
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He looks like he's still alive.
He is a vampire.
contradiction
La Repubblica of Rome reported Wednesday that the singer Michael Jackson has been fined 4 million lire (around $2,200) for plagiarism.
Michael Jackson wasn't even aware that he was being fined.
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Especially now, when any investor can obtain almost perfect diversification with index funds and index options--and thus get the exact return of the market as a whole.
Diversifying with index funds will cause you to lose money, when compared to other market options.
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It was actually a luxurious 20/80 cotton-poly blend.
The article was a blend of two fabrics.
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Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.
Madison Avenue doesn't make advertising decisions.
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The brawny Neeson is a calamity as Wilde, says New York's John Simon.
John Simon does not think Neeson's performance should win an Oscar.
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But given the global supply glut--the U.S. government seized about a ton of heroin in 1995, compared with worldwide heroin production of 400 tons--many experts question whether interdiction has any effect on street prices.
The government seizures failed to impact street prices.
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Congratulations to all our winners.
By nature of there being a competition, there must be winners.
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But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.
Joe Montana is the most beloved player to ever play.
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The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising.
Many other politicians think the Bush people did a good job.
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According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.
Sonny is now a widow.
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Such an affair is improbable, but--take heart, Clinton-haters--it's not impossible.
A Clinton affair is impossible.
contradiction
Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.
Arafat realized 35% of people don't approve of him.
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He has threatened to veto the five remaining appropriations bills in the 2000 budget because of Republicans' proposed cuts in social programs.
The 2000 budget was very high.
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The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies.
The biography did not reveal anything about the pioneer.
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They especially take him to task for blaming Plath's suicide on fate and astrology.
Plath's cause of death should be listed as depression.
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Jenkins hasn't quite figured out how to shape her narrative, which is full of episodes that are there because they actually happened but that don't have a payoff.
Jenkins has been creating narratives for only a couple of years now.
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In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option.
Ventura is avoiding the Bulworth choice.
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Officials at the Justice Department and FISA Court deny that the latter is a rubber stamp, attributing Justice's winning percentage to rigorous internal review that weeds out bad applications before they're filed.
Officials at the Justice Department have made no comment regarding the Justice's winning percentage.
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AS PART OF HER DYING WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE
As part of her dying wish, she wanted to create a chain email to inform people.
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And privacy--cloak of night, stocking mask, and any digital equivalent--is all that separates the thief from the law.
Thieves utilize privacy to separate themselves from law enforcement.
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The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.
The situation is normal.
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Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be.
Taxation does nothing to finance government programs.
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The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world; and 2) fallen short of victory in Kosovo by using excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force in a c...
Clinton is a controversial figure that had caused pundits to criticism what he does.
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If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean sells workout equipment.
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