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There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.
The chair was made of wood from an oak tree.
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We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes.
Young Germans once embraced the military in the 1930s.
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He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley.
Bill Bradley had already considered such a possibility, and was making moves to ensure he did not run.
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Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?
If it is revoked, I might go into nursing.
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Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say Salman, I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time?
Salman is not a famous writer.
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If you don't like reading on a computer screen, for example, there's a special version of SLATE that you can print out in its entirety, reformatted like a traditional print magazine.
There is a cost to print out the special version of SLATE.
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Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.
Bennett has been writing for Standard for about a year.
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An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.
To come to a compromise, Blitzer makes a counteroffer.
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Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.
Senate Republicans voted against cracking down on PACs.
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Plimpton got lost in his list at one point, but despite referring to one of the contributors to the display's soundtrack as Cecille Dion, he brought to the event his patrician sonorities and his fabled familiarity with fireworks.
Plimpton mentioned Celine Dion as one of the contribuitors to the display's soundtrack.
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(Most A fictitious manservant, supposed to be a sort of African-American Everyman, contemplates assassinating Wallace.)
He would be likely to escape unnoticed if he planned things very carefully.
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According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
Dopamine is produced and sold illegally in Saudi Arabia
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I'm from a small country [New Zealand], but I don't see what we are doing here as a threat to our sovereignty.
New Zealand is overwhelmingly hostile.
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I obeyed, but nothing I was still sleepless.
I didnt obey and was able to fall asleep.
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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
the institution was thriving like never before.
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Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch!
It might be even better if Mr. Goldberg watches too.
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This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.
There are no contradicting interests between responsible parenthood and indulging one's urges.
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The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times.
The movies only care about making money.
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If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things.
Worry would indicate something.
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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.
so many people have died and a hundreds of thousands are fleeing thanks to Russia setting military operations up in response to the Moscow terrorist attacks.
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I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.
Monica Lewinsky had contracts with the president.
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The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.
the tender giant plays with a teeny mouse.
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And every tournament game receives this treatment.
Each tournament game gets the same respect as the others.
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That in the process she had learned what makes the locals tick--as well as a language known to few, if any, CIA officials--was of no Her chances of being hired would have been much better if she had remained celibate in Salt Lake City.
she lived in Salt Lake City for 3 months.
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Sticking ice axes in the sides of mountains is a pretty stupid way to get to 29,000 feet as well.
There are no mountains which reach 29,000 feet tall.
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PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets.
Pointcast relies on a targeting niche markets for their success.
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It's very simple, really--$5 million isn't worth five times as much as $1 million.
The writer is thinking beyond the basic math and is considering the circumstances of the situation.
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Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
There is a long list of things we tried.
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Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft.
Students have been known to use Adderall.
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The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times.
The teens go see these movies a lot.
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To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing ...
Ana Estela Lopeze had never been to El Salvador.
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Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.
There are still plenty of economists who uses this demand-side thinking.
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Victorious Couch Potatoes
A person is incapable of being victorious when they are a couch potato.
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Not Homo economicus is not a central pillar of my faith--he is merely a working assumption, albeit one that is extremely useful in many circumstances.
A working assumption is extremely useful in many circumstances.
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Even better for the veep, Gov.
The veep knows this will be good.
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While these varieties are generally incompatible with one another, all this code-writing has resulted in a far-flung community that understands the Unix beast.
The different varieties are incompatible with one another.
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Perhaps the uncritical reportage of Fitzsimmons' new story can be explained by pangs of guilt about the uncritical reportage of his old one.
Since his old story, Fitzsimmons has refused to create one that is new.
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I obeyed, but nothing I was still sleepless.
I followed the commands but still could not get to sleep.
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Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle.
Lockheed had a part in creating the Hubble Telescope and the space shuttle.
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(Countering a question about tackiness, Dexter says, You should see what we turned down--'I Have a Dream' ice cream, Martin Luther King pocketknives.
Dexter thinks the gifts are interesting.
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That is George Richey, widower of country singer Tammy Wynette.
George Richey never remarried.
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You don't even know where the welfare office is.
The nearest welfare office in this situation is on Main Street.
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(I missed her in last year's Stepmom --my raccoon had hepatitis.)
I've had my raccoon for 6 years.
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A quick recap.
a swift repetition.
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Third, the woman serves the man's need to be needed.
Men have the need to be needed.
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Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.
Poor people are lucky in that they are immune to the effects of globalization.
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Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!
Due to the stress of their jobs, scientists have a higher sex drive.
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Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance.
There are benefits to reducing the very high tax rates.
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But marketing people are the worst offenders when it comes to wanting to add new features, generating loud choruses of NO even from otherwise enthusiastic developers.
Marketing executives have no interest in having new features added to products.
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The editors Slate is here for the duration.
It's not here at all.
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Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters?
I do not think you steal Tootsie pops, I believe it was the worker of African descent.
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We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful.
Years later, historians sympathized with Nixon because of his unfair news coverage.
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What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.
This is a disaster for Medicare from which it will never recover.
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The technology might usefully be applied in local races, in which it's hard to sort out the platform of every potential state senator, judge, school board official, and city council member.
It might be useful for the technology to be applied in local races.
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All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls.
Politicians sometimes give lobbyists jobs.
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And Rupert Murdoch ( of Fox TV ) recently bid an estimated $350 million for the Los Angeles Dodgers and their stadium.
Murdoch is a huge fan of soccer as well.
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Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships.
Seamus Heaney has been published in SLATE.
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Thank you for William Saletan's brilliant analysis () of the war.
William Saletan's dissection of the war is stupid and unfactual.
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Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.
People feel different ways about the Bible's English.
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Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques.
Sante Kimes was a single mother.
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The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.
If something is retro and in a rut, it is groovy.
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I bought two large tubes after your super review.
The review was super because of the accompanying images.
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The problem is that when a documentary filmmaker seems too scared or cool or arty to violate his own immaculate aesthetic, he ends up weakening his case.
Most filmmakers are very cool.
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Starr was putting his own guys to sleep.
Starr's words were electrifying and everyone listened with fascination.
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And when it comes from the white right, it's narcissism in the service of hypocrisy.
The majority of the white right have a lot of internal racism and misogyny
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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.
Future elections and public policies will have to change.
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Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining.
Francis Collins is unarmed and in favor of genetic redlining.
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During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs.
Clinton was accused of being too hard on the Serbs by the hawks.
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Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Karen Finley is very proud of her art.
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One of the most famous of all photographs is Robert Capa's 1936 Moment of Death , taken during the Spanish Civil War.
There are photographs that are well-known.
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Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change.
Lewinsky's name change will help her avoid the public eye and the history of her name.
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The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons.
Tom Jones and Hugh O'Brian are disciplined and forthright men.
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Is all of The Limey a temporal hiccup?
There are questions about The Limey.
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The problem is that when a documentary filmmaker seems too scared or cool or arty to violate his own immaculate aesthetic, he ends up weakening his case.
Filmmakers sometimes weaken their own case.
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The media imply that Bush keeps refusing to say whether he has used cocaine.
There are no rumors and conspiracies about Bush's cocaine use.
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July 9, PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ran, without comment, all the PDFA's new ads.
On July 9th, The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer didn't run any ads.
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Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.
Optimists think that the Great Depression caused the deflation, not the other way around.
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What I love about this Jordan thing is that he has embraced an opportunity that could lead to his total failure on a basketball court.
Jordan decided to go through with an opportunity that could affect playing on the court.
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Spins on the monetary 1) It will make Europe the United States' new economic rival.
It will make Europe a rival with China.
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What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector.
Some schooling is required for a person to work in the tech sector.
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Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
Whites are better at finding employment.
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I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.
Monica Lewinsky never knew Betty Currie.
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Does this mean that unpopular individual rights are in peril?
Individual rights are in no danger of being excised.
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If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary.
Censorship could be a just cause.
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Zercher says Lindsey called her and urged her to say all positive things about her experiences.
Lindsey was only trying to help Zercher maintain an optimistic mindset.
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They thrust their fingers within an inch or two of priceless paintings, pointing out the obvious.
The priceless paintings were hanging in the museum when the people pointed at them.
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Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy.
The Kurds are a minority population in Iran.
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Newsweek 's longer piece likens this to swapping Katharine Hepburn for Whitney was revered for her practicality, whereas Fuller exudes buzz.
It is popular opinion that swapping Hepburn for Whitney was a practical move.
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The reason to see Man on the Moon is Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey is not an actor.
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As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods.
Richard John is an historian.
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Comments like these make you wonder not whether Bush and his friends ever used cocaine, but whether they ever stopped.
One on of Bush's friends entered a drug rehab program for their cocaine use but resumed using the drug soon after.
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Boaz's model for this is the Internet.
Boaz is a supporter of the internet.
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Ah, it's always the big but.
The big but prevented the course of action.
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There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk.
Paper and chalk are being used to create art.
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Grisham is content with the simple and compelling observation that as a society we fail to treat the homeless with the dignity they deserve.
Grisham feels that the way society treats the homeless is generally appropriate.
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Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits.
Ellison continued to keep writing.
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The magazine predicts softer GOP stances on gun control and abortion.
The GOP is usually hard on gun control and abortion.
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As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells.
Human stem cells were being subject to patent by biotech companies.
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But if God has taken flight, in Gattaca and elsewhere, at least a few of his imitators are trying to save their souls.
God has not taken flight.
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There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago.
Corgan never existed.
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