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But he is older now.
He has aged.
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Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred Beetle Barnes, pauses, and calls him Pat Buchanan.
John McLaughlin and Fred Beetle Barnes are good friends.
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Time says that space tourism has a new former astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz Aldrin is a former astronaut that has landed on the moon.
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In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.
Larry is a handicap person who tried to rescue someone in the bathtub.
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(DiGenova says it has since issued five subpoenas and has a hearing scheduled for late next month.)
DiGenova has issued more than four subpoenas.
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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.
Able bodied people are always rude and confrontational when caught using disabled stalls.
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Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress.
The clerk was wearing pants when I was in the retail store.
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In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S.
There was a list ranking the colleges in the US.
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Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite.
The exhibition has been held here for decades.
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If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc.
There has to be a party of the treaty that require surprise inspections of suspicious sites.
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Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance.
Lowering the very high tax rates will encourage people to hide their money.
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Of Decter's comments, the less said the better.
The author wants to hear more from Decter.
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(The study centered on where you are likely to find women starting new careers after being publicly humiliated by their husbands.)
There are certain career fields new women starting careers end up in.
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White describes his wife Katherine, who, very sick in the fall of the last year of her life, goes out into the garden, as she has done every year before, to plant the spring bulbs she knew she would never live to see rise.
White's wife, Katherine, does not have long to live.
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If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel.
The channel and Internet Explorer do not work with each other.
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Don't fight over small issues.
Fighting over the last ice cream isn't worth the headache.
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Besides the CBS suit, it won $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today after the newspaper reprinted the I Have a Dream speech without permission.
USA Today can use the I Have a Dream speech under the fair use act.
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Is that such a terrible thing?
It is a horrible thing.
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You fresh air/fresh ideas
Your brain needs fresh air to generate new ideas.
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Ironically, busing will become unnecessary only when no one seems to have a problem with it anymore.
Busing will go away at some point in the future.
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Some legal scholars, such as Robert Bork, claim these search powers are unconstitutionally broad.
Robert Bork and other legal scholars believe certain search powers are unconstitutional.
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A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.
College guides can lead to the commodification of the educational process.
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(Read William Saletan's to see how the doctors cultivated their common touch.)
William Saletan wrote something.
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It is this matter, he has said, which led him to found Judicial Watch in 1994.
Judicial Watch was founded in the year 1994.
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But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.
Editorialists have stated that Nicholson was extremely wily in evading authorities making finding and catching him nearly impossible.
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The Sports Network probably attracts more attention than it deserves.
The Sports Network get attention.
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I invite you to compare Reich's account with reality by clicking .
You can look at Reich's account by clicking on the link, according to the author.
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Well, why read any type of fiction?
Fiction is much better than nonfiction.
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He stood for what he believed in.
The man allowed other people to tell him what to believe.
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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 is an author.
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Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!
Prudie is feeling anxious.
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With a bit of elementary mathematics and a lot of keen insight, Arrow was forced to a sobering If a reasonable voting system is one that respects unanimity and precludes flip-flops, then there are no reasonable voting systems, with one exception--the system that picks one voter and makes him a dictator.
Arrow came to a conclusion using insight and mathematics.
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I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era.
The Romantic era needs an introduction in order for people to understand it.
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A remake of the 1957 made-for-TV musical wins praise for its African-American lead and multiracial cast, which includes Jason Alexander, Whitney Houston, and Whoopi Goldberg.
A remake of the 1957 musical gains praise for including a multiracial cast.
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The greatest events and achievements of the past 1,000 years are reviewed, including the miraculous growth of prosperity since 1750, the persistence of the city, the emancipation of women, the rise of the law, and the invention of limited liability (the key to the rise of equity corporations).
Nobody takes the effort in order to go over that important events which have occurred over the last thousand years.
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No question, taxes can affect behavior.
Taxes don't affect behavior whatsover.
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Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me.
Someone has Giuliani as a rival.
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It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that.
Beatty has been known to be hesitant to help in the past.
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But on all these, the basic principle is the same.
The basic principle usually stays the same.
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But bizarrely, 1.7 million of those votes were for Kemal Ataterk.
It was widely predicted that Kemal Ataterk would receive no more than 500 thousand votes.
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The largest Republican constituency may be the Tight-Lipped Republicans . These folks, who include old-timers such as Virginia's John Warner, Alaska's Ted Stevens, and Mississippi's Thad Cochran, are as annoyed by the president as the next guy.
There are no sub-classes of Republicans within the Republican Party.
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The differences among the three publications are probably best illustrated by their varying explanations for the mysterious cast that recently appeared on JFK Jr.'s arm.
The cast was actually the result of a freak golfing accident.
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That is another investment one can make for old so to conduct oneself in prior years that one can feel one has paid one's dues.
the investment is quite cheap.
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In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.
It is wrong to steal bread from bread baskets.
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In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions.
long ago, everybody paid attention, and the artists on NEA panels were restricted from decision making.
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For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it.
The US's trust is all the UN needs to thrive.
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This is the amount on the check the new owner writes.
A new owner writes the checks.
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Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).
Feminists had stopped listening to Arendt.
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Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader!
There was no religious factor to the display for the Iraqis.
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The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.
The Wall Street jornal points out what influenced the outcome of the strike.
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Gigot thinks the tax fraud proceedings against Hubbell are legitimate and ordinary, while everyone else regards the indictments as trumped-up mini-crimes meant to squeeze Hubbell into giving Starr what he wants--cooperation.
Gigot thought the fraud case should be dismissed.
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Now that consumers know that there is a fluid aftermarket for video games, they are more likely to go into a store and buy one of these games for full price on the day it comes out.
A fluid aftermarket for video games is good for the consumer.
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My kids after they graduate.
My kids will graduate some institution.
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According to the actress, they couldn't.
She knows the truth.
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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.
Congress's subsidizing of many stage-coach companies for the purposes of carrying mail and important persons helped make the Frenchman's travels possible.
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I had to format both drives.
Formatting drives is a useful thing to do.
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Later, McLaughlin refers to Saddam's Republican Guard as the Red Guard.
Saddam's Republican Guard is referred to as the Red Guard by some.
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The drive to find and eat food was integral to the survival of our early ancestors.
Our early ancestors had to hunt down food sources to survive.
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For people who are not immersed in recovery but are receptive to the notion of sex addiction, the president's dysfunction simply means that, like Ken Starr, he is out of control.
There is no such thing as having too much sexual intercourse.
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Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.
The move was made because of the personal commitment made by Quindlen to exercise unworked creativity.
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News ' Web shopping package centers on the America Online-Netscape merger.
Internet based companies will never consider merging together, they would rather go under.
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(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never.
There is not thought to be a double standard when comparing how violence is accepted in movies as opposed to how violence is accepted in stage productions.
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During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all.
Rubin was quiet during the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises.
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The Nazi flag of the opening scene has become a Tibetan one, which they place on the summit.
the flag fabric was made of hemp.
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But for the past month, and especially last week, there has been a kinder, gentler Monica, an innocent trapped in a scandal not of her own making.
The thing that upset Monica happened a few months ago.
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So Hollings embraces Inglis' charges that he's a pork- He calls it pork.
Hollings vehemently denies that he's a pork.
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He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.
He wanted to make a funny joke out of the sound bite.
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If they want to support me in the objectives I have outlined, that's fine, but I don't take positions or make votes in response to offers of contributions.
I can't be bought.
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(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.)
Students are allowed to make political donations.
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The theory that only a monopolist can price discriminate is standard textbook fare, and it's borne out by a lot of observations.
No one thinks monopolists can price discriminate.
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In cases like this, it's the economist's job to explain where we ought to be headed, and the political scientist's job to explain why we can't get there from here.
An economist has no duty to explain where we ought to be headed.
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(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)
It is more the exception that people love their work than the rule.
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Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
Critics attack her for her personality flaws.
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I'll say it Read the directions.
The author assumes that you are literate when telling you what to do.
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Truscott compares the intensive training you get in the Army with one of these weapons long before you're ever allowed to fire it, and then only under the supervision of an expert marksman, with the situation in states like Arkansas, where it's legal for a 10-year-old to own a semiautomatic assault weapon without a mom...
It's always illegal for children to own assault weapon anywhere in the USA.
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, the closure of a local factory), the benefits tend to be invisible because they're faraway or diffuse (e.g.
Closing the factory is bad for the town.
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5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring.
Someone died in the fight.
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Historians may also question whether the Steunenberg affair, on its own, touched off, in Lukas' words, a struggle for the soul of America.
Historians unquestionably have consensus on the fact that the Steunenberg affair started this struggle by itself, easily.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write,
When I write about you I faint.
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Most agree that he's a Clinton-style weather vane, adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.
Most think that his positions are influenced by other people.
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The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
The Torah's text is the same as its always been.
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Charles Bakaly, Starr's new spokesman, gave his inaugural Sunday show appearance to Fox News Sunday , only to have interviewers Tony Snow and Brit Hume run the oldest play in the book on him.
Tony Snow and Brit Hume did not try to trick Charles.
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And whether or not all the right jobs are filled with exactly the right people, the United States still manages to negotiate with China and the United Nations, the civil rights division still manages to file cases, and judges still manage to impose sentences.
The author claims that it is irrelevant whether or not jobs are filled with the proper people.
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So does that of my fellow general editor, Nelly MacKay.
Nelly MacKay is a general editor.
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Crazy Richard Nixon and All That Jazz , by Leonard Garment (Times Books).
Crazy Richard Nixon and All That Jazz was a New York Times bestseller.
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An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
They government wants to make the decision on several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
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Vouchers, they argue, are simply a guise for the edu-welfare system to cast its net over several million more families and children.
The vouchers are controversial.
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But in the world we live in--or at least in the neighborhood I live in--there are so many interchangeable dry cleaners that none of them should be able to get away with exploiting anyone.
All the dry cleaners secretly work together to exploit their customers.
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Republican fund-raising hypocrisy 1) The Washington
Republicans choose not to fundraise for elections.
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Tobacco growers managed to avoid that fate last year.
Tobacco is not grown but is produced in a lab.
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Why would Gates allow the publication of such a book with his byline and photo on the dust jacket?
Gates is good friends with the book's publisher.
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Long ignored by snake experts, the skeleton shares many physical characteristics with that of snakes, including its 140 vertebrae and its extraordinarily flexible jaws.
The skeleton has similar features to that of a snake.
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Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
There has yet to be a 20 percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
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Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.
The internet did not come into existence until the year 2000.
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
Most older people are quite saddened by the decline of the old ways of socializing.
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And has the following point been made on the Op-Ed that Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty have chosen to attack centrist Democrats as cynical sellouts who ignore American poverty just when, according to the Census Bureau, those cynical centrists are making the greatest strides against poverty that have been made in...
Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty are heavily involved in politics.
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The RPH who must legislate or govern (Gingrich, Kasich, Bush) is quieter about his principles--probably because he actually has to live by them.
Contrary to governors like Gingrich, the RPH lives by his principles.
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Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.
If those exercises are used, the patient should still be dead.
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When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.
This theory has been tested.
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Most Americans will have a tough time living up to its standards.
The majority of Americans meet the high bar standards.
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