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Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters.
Bill Clinton interacted with more than one person after the impeachment.
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If McCain emerges as the nominee, Democrats will exploit his domestic weaknesses.
Democrats view McCain as weak on domestic issues.
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President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.
President Clinton has plans to visit the black churches affected.
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And at a time when ad people all seem to be drawing from the same palette of colors and styles, creativity and distinctiveness are, oddly enough, not synonymous.
Advertisements are monotonous and bland.
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The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes.
The Indonesian movement was a spontaneous resistance that failed completely.
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Prudie must confess that your advice is a tad more constructive than her own.
Prudie and I disagree on the resolution of the situation.
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To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.
Clinton is very upfront about Lewinsky from the beginning.
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Boaz's model for this is the Internet.
Boaz thinks that lessons learned from examining the internet can be applied to other areas.
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Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?
Lee Harvey Oswald fled to Russia in 1963
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My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.
I have never felt like a writer.
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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 large woman talked to a salesclerk.
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The magazines do the math on the State of the Union address.
the magazine claims it's apolitical.
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The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.
Reagan defense budget hindered the merger with Martin Marietta.
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Idealists don't like the way it's being fought.
There is disagreement with the current course of action.
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The buck still stops with them.
They have no authority.
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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.
International beliefs peg peak productivity as occuring in workers' 40s.
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Besides, complains New York 's Mark Stevens, there are more dresses on display than paintings.
The number of dresses outnumber the paintings.
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Guess what, so is the Chinese rate of osteoporosis.
China has a calcium problem.
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In March, he dismissed Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and replaced him with a 35-year-old political neophyte, Sergei Kiriyenko.
Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin was replaced by a 35 year old neophyte.
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One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.
Barker could have made the movie to be something of a cautionary tale.
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I felt like a moron for not being able to figure this out myself.
I didn't feel bad at all, not being able to figure this out myself
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I begin to count Rep.
The reps consistent of 3 dead lifts.
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largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings.
The intent was to promote women overcoming adversity.
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Time 's cover story celebrates Hip-Hop Nation and chronicles the genre's 20 year rise.
the Time's completely trashed Hip Hop with a scathing review.
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On democracy, for example, American activists are raging over China's recent suppression of all democratic dissent.
China has varying weather patterns in the Spring.
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Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.
Pundit Central thinks that the models are addicted to heroin.
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Or he may You're in the wrong place.
You've arrived to the right place.
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They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him.
Bush was given this advice by some of his closest aides and campaign strategists.
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Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks.
Packet switching issues are prevalent with Internet telephony.
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I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.
Unable to obtain necessary monetary backing, the picture could not be released.
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Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics.
She has a terrible singing voice.
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His career took the shape of a palindrome.
His career was successful.
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The admonition, You become what you behold, has yielded to You become what you belittle.
You never become what you behold.
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To get your favorite parts of Slate
All parts of Slate are uniformly disliked.
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Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ...
She no longer loves Ryan.
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Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate.
Hume was silent throughout the MSNBC program.
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Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.
Ron Brown made a six figure profit.
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And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship.
Winnie-the-Pooh is a Canadian.
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Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing?
Instead of bombing, Milosevic's aggression might be curbed through diplomacy.
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There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade.
The situation isn't overblown.
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Technology to me has its good points and its bad points.
There are only positives that comes from technology.
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The news that I am laying waste to an entire generation of men exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard.
Men are easy to ruin.
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Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence.
The environment is well-suited for a new group to surface.
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Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?
The Tea Party is referenced in a conversation about protest.
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Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.
Bush maintained his poise throughout the statement.
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Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).
Springer doesn't have an audience.
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The other, largely neglected Imply that the competition, as currently configured, is improbably upscale.
The competition is set up in a specific way at this time.
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But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero.
In movies such as these, the vampire forgets their powers and quizzically engages in physical combat with the hero.
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The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
The show appeals to good-government liberals.
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The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.
Nixon thought of the analogy while in the shower.
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Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth.
Dentists struggle to even make bridges stay in-place.
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Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.
Prudie didn't even notice that you were wearing a bra.
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Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor's waiting to receive their leader.
The emperor going to meet the leader of the barbarians.
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Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution.
Tafero's execution was quite a spectacle with nearly the whole village in attendance.
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Starr told me that, and Bennett confirmed it but would not tell me specifics.
Bennett is tight lipped.
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The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.
The GOP and the Christian right share every one of their beliefs.
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I remember the epigraph of James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan , which I read more than 60 years
James T. Farrell is the author of many popular books.
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(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)
The Enquirer story was not a target of the New York Post's gossip column.
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The few stinky letters were from clergymen.
The clergymen had stinky letters.
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(Note to Hollywood Try to hire someone who looks like Lillian Hellman to be your husband's personal assistant.)
Someone who looks like Lillian Hellman will be hired.
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You'll be able to cruise from article to review to column to department with a growing feeling that you're absolutely right about everything.
You'll end more confident by the end of it.
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So are bitchin' and stoked . Every generation insists on having its own new words for the most aggressively up-to-date aspects of life.
Words are coined every generation.
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Songs like their biggest hit, , are sense-less but skillful pastiches of classic Beatles moments.
No skill was involved in the writing of the hit song.
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This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics.
Pat Buchanan's political ideas trigger a large response.
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We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin.
Today's Papers exemplifies just how close news reporting is to being neutral in tone.
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I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant.
Mad Magazine had an article on Chinese reataurants and their popularity.
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He adopted an upbeat American organicism derived from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman are American icons.
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The majority of those responding felt that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, and the APA accordingly removed it from the DSM 's next published edition.
APA is in charge of declaring disorders found in the DSM.
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My situation is something of a good news-bad news thing.
my circumstance is definitely a 50/50 situation, good and bad.
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The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.
The Third Wave feminist's third book had very sharp, coherent train of thinking.
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The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.
Changes in technology and law enforcement eliminated the mob.
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At the conference, they defended their activities against numerous Solidarity leaders denied they made too many compromises; priests denied they had been co-opted by the party; and Communists denied they had committed treason.
When Solidarity leaders, priests and Communists convened at the conference, they felt no reason to deny or defend any of their activities.
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Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents.
The Republican Party has made a proposal regarding the budget surplus.
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Afterward, the doctors compare the results of the placebo surgeries with those of real operations.
The placebo surgeries were just as effective.
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Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary.
The source believes that Sheen is fully healthy and expected to live a much longer life.
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An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification.
President Lee Teng-hui also hates America.
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By the way, an old corporate pro once told me never to discuss anything of importance in a bathroom or an elevator.
The best advice I got from an old corporate pro was to have important discussions in the bathroom or an elevator.
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into prose of crystalline clarity and grace, it is ...
The speech was heard by millions of people.
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The hard truth, I would argue, is that this way of seeing the world is itself distressingly soft.
the truth is, this way of seeing the world is peacefully abrupt.
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The Sports Network probably attracts more attention than it deserves.
The Sports Network is over rated.
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Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...
There is snow in the Rockies.
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And as for Hillary, forget it.
The thought is about Hillary Clinton being president.
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In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race.
Only a small amount of black people in 1963 were married to someone of a different race.
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The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.
The winner will be declared immediately after the Hackathlon.
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Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters.
Chekhov was illiterate and extremely unexpressive.
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What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.
The book became the number one best selling book for a day.
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The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.
The 1996 Telecommunications Act permitted Internet e-rate subsidies.
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Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising.
Anti-drug advertising is more prevalent on the radio than it ever has been.
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The Virtual Library on International Development is another source for material on these issues.
Some of the source material was obtained at The Virtual Library on International Development.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
There was a precedent from the Supreme Court about this use of the First Amendment.
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But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc.
Had he played a Bosendorfer, he might have delivered an incredible performance.
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Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war.
Israel sided with the Croats against the Serbs, as the Croats and Jews have a long history of peace and cooperation.
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3) The appeals court's decision has nasty ramifications for the entire government.
There are nasty ramifications caused by the appeal court's decision.
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Howard Kurtz, the media reporter of the Washington Post , does this a bit from time to time.
Howard Kurtz does this because he derives a lot of enjoyment from it when he can.
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The Unjust Clinton's moral theory, point by point, as expressed in his testimony.
Clinton has given testimony at least once.
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Perhaps people who work in group settings where some hand is always out can start a reverse Limit forced-march giving to $2.
People who work in group settings may have an option when it comes to starting a reverse limit forced-march.
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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.
There is only a single room at this location.
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. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw.
Jews do not believe in God.
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The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself.
MoneyCentral has no competition at all.
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While most people want to believe that God created us one way or another, few can swallow the literal creationist reading of the Bible, which holds that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
The Earth is much older than 10,000 years old.
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