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The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.
The examples of propaganda are feeble.
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My wish is to make this marriage work because I love my wife, but I am feeling like second fiddle to a gang of girls.
Her time spent with the gang of girls is growing steadily each week, leaving him alone at home.
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You don't have to teach Rik Smits how to make post moves.
Rik Smits gets post moves lessons every day.
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Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch].
He looked at his watch and claimed it was a pretty serious perjury time.
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But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.
The reporters do not need Davis.
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Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.
The letter writer is just making up this story about having knowledge about Diem's assassination.
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(Formerly the state sport was catching and returning runaway slaves.)
The state sport was basketball.
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The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.
The Company Man lost his job to independent workers.
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There is plenty of evidence that the first gap has been declining--fairly rapidly by historical standards.
We have enough information to something decisively about the first gap.
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Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.
The government is to blame, not the evil leaders.
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Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times that the play manages to entertain even at its darkest and preachiest.
At points, Brantley thinks the play gets a bit preachy.
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Wealth would indeed be moved around, some people enriched, and others would be financial losers.
Most people would be effected if wealth were to be moved around.
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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 said there was almost no one at the news conference.
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Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.
Dolphins are the most intelligent creatures on the planet.
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Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans.
Clinton insists that he knew what the Chinese were planning the whole time.
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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.
I hate this whole Jordan thing I want him to fail on the court.
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How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities?
Since essay topics can vary so widely, many feel they are not an accurate barometer of an applicant's abilities.
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A core group of kids do have a distinct attention abnormality, but Ritalin worked so well--it can reduce distractibility even in perfectly normal children--that now almost any difficult child is considered for the diagnosis and drug.
Ritalin has fairly severe side effects.
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But I hope the British people will see it in the spirit in which it is intended--one of reconciliation and peace and hopes for the future.
The act involved included a new sculpture.
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Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument.
there's a specific Criticize America First quality to their argument.
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99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver.
Starr has a case to deliver.
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It has been tempting to see in Soutine's flayed forms a premonition of things to come.
Sountine was a successful artist.
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It's impossible today to realize how shocking The Picture of Dorian Gray was to 1890s readers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was released in the 1890s.
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This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.
This was consistent in Mozart's work.
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While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?)
Publishing every two weeks has never been a requirement for anyone, including Vanilla Fudge.
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What's completely intolerable is to be accurately quoted and seen--even by yourself--to be no better than you actually are.
The author contends that a person will always have an inflated sense of their own self worth.
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And what makes Chatterbox think he knows all about the Clintons' chilly business deal either?
Chatterbox believes he knows the details of the Clintons' business deal .
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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.
Dictatorship was not found to meet the requirements of respecting unanimity and precluding flip-flopping.
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Skeptical doctors assert that such NDEs are purely physiological (naval pilots exposed to extreme gravity also have visions of bright lights and a God figure).
Doctors believe that naval pilots that had visions of bright lights and a God figure was due to being exposed to extreme gravity.
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It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.
he's reflecting on the incorrect things.
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The results were depressingly consistent.
The results, sadly, were always consistent.
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80 HK for a super-value meal and $6 HK for each Snoopy toy McDonald's sells.
The snoopy toys are collectable.
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In any event, Gore dropped out of the race shortly after the debate.
Al Gore dropped out of the race.
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The first is that CBS's spiking of the interview turned Wigand into an even bigger story than he would have been otherwise.
CBS made the Wigand interview a bigger story than it needed to be.
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Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.
she likes to use big words so she thinks she's intelligent.
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Suppose, for example, that an estate of $400 is to be divided among creditors who claim $100, $200, and $300.
The estate will be divided in the example by increments of $100 dollars.
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The milk proponents offer a variety of responses as to why osteoporosis is far less common in the nonmilk-drinking world.
Osteoporosis is common in the nonmilk-drinking world.
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' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
I don't know what happened.
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The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful.
The policy was carefully targeted to help those with the least amount of power and money.
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The Blue Flower , by Penelope Fitzgerald (Houghton Mifflin).
The Blue Flower was created by Percival Fuzzybottom.
contradiction
But there are arguments to the contrary.
These arguments are correct.
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Is that wrong?
Something wrong just happened.
neutral
(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
I have a large amount of knowledge about how systems work.
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Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book.
visualize not going to my website and refusing to read any promo materials.
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You don't even know where the welfare office is.
A welfare office exists.
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All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.
He has made a lot of interesting statements.
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Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).
The Museum of American Folk Art has many beautiful artworks like Henry the Unreality of Being.
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Last year he tried and failed to invoke the War Powers Resolution for the Bosnia mission.
There was a military mission in Bosnia last year.
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Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines.
Books and newspapers usually win the Pulitzer Prize.
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As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed.
Pissaro died in 1903 of natural causes.
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Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee.
Al Gore would never be scheduled to travel to Tennessee.
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Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation.
United States does not have a post office.
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At one point he imagines this middle-class By dismissing our fears about declining morality out of hand, you fail to recognize that middle-class morality is not necessarily opposed to the values of inclusion and equality that you currently profess.
He imagines these things often.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
A person is angry at someone.
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The RPH does not much elaborate on how he would balance the budget after his cuts.
We have all the details on how RPH would balance the budget once the cuts happen.
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Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation.
Wall Street responded to the move poorly, with the DOW closing at an all-time low.
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The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
That I Had the Wings and Flying Home were more successful than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
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If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.
Close only produced doodles of living animals.
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Dissatisfied with the chump change earned by selling untaxed cigarettes and fireworks, the Indians have opened gambling casinos on reservations all over the state.
Untaxed cigarettes and fireworks have provided an enormous boost to the economy on the Reservation.
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(Isn't there some high-tech way to fly him from class to class, perhaps on Boeing's new Delta III rocket; you know, once it stops malfunctioning.)
Boeing's new rcket is currently being used daily.
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In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference.
Big loans were organized more than a month ago.
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Possibly, Bakaly meant to give the impression that Starr has a good hand without formally stating anything, but more likely it was an unintentional snafu.
Bakaly formally stated that Starr has a good hand.
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His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall.
turning the volume past 15 on the speakers can be too loud for most people.
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The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth.
Some people have unrealistic expectations.
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All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.
His statements are always dull and boring.
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Never able to paint anything unless he had it before his eyes, Soutine set about re-enacting some of the classic paintings he loved most.
Soutine was working under a deadline.
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Falwell, I had just finished reading a novelistic treatment of these events, Assassins , which is subtitled Jerusalem, Antichrist . Assassins is the sixth book in the Left Behind series, left behind referring to those unfortunate nonevangelical Christians who are not taken up to heaven in the Rapture--the opening act...
The novel about these events is called Assassins.
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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 investigation into the DNC is going smoothly.
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Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.
I understand Mastering Linux completely, without issue.
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The NYT and LAT fronts report that a Vanderbilt University study, to be published today in Science , indicates that blacks are far less likely than whites to make use of the Internet.
A study by Vanderbilt indicating African-Americans use the internet far less than whites is being reported by the NYT and LAT.
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The protective aura that once insulated the family has vanished.
A witch dispelled the magic aura.
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Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.
Levi's jeans are typically less expensive than their competitors' jeans.
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In fact, although all other nominees are welcome, Slate 's software-development team--through a simple iterative program--has already cast 1.8 million votes for Bill Gates.
No votes have been cast for Bill Gates yet.
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Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice.
Office of Special Investigations wants more individuals to take personal revenge.
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Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
He is a well educated linguist.
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But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
He definitely took the ring.
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There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.
The author is aware of what this specific group of workers is referred to as.
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Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however.
Simon and Lyons loved Sebastian Barry's work.
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For sure, however, Microsoft has mainly been restrained by the knowledge that any crude use of its power would indeed land it in court.
The reason Microsoft doesn't use their information flippantly is to avoid being sued.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
The Supreme Court had made many other rulings regarding the First Amendment.
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Dentistry is a hassle now because it works.
Dentistry is a rising profession.
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If the wound to Eappen's skull was new, asked Scheck, why had scar tissue formed around it?
Eappen has a wound on the skull.
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The first lies in the assumption that all three-second periods are worth the same.
it's assumed that all three-second periods are valued identically.
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Asahi Shimbun added that if Japan had tried to resolve these problems a little at a time, those who felt themselves victimized by Japan might have felt at least somewhat mollified; but that with the passing of time while we do nothing, however, discontent and ill will can coalesce into bitter enmity.
Shimbun has been very outspoken in the last year.
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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.
Bakaly is the newest spokesperson for Starr.
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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.
Joel Silver chose to finance the picture because he was a fan of the studio's films.
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The author's claim that she backed down from that number in later interviews (not cited) is thus groundless.
There aren't any doubts regarding the figures the author provided.
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Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.
Randall gave the Enquirer some information about the baby.
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Better health care affects athletic ability directly.
Your athletic ability will definitely improve if you find better health care.
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The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death.
Rhodes' book seems to prattle on and on, slowly morphing into a list of complaints labelling mad-cow disease as the new Black Death.
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The results were depressingly consistent.
The results were mostly consistent.
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What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.
Meier was unaware their work was viewed so critically.
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A comprehensive international review of 54 studies concluded that the pill doesn't heighten a woman's long-term probability of getting breast cancer.
Efforts have been made to determine the effects the pill has on human health.
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In the New York Review of Books , for example, the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, one of the chief modern villains of Orientalism , decried Said's inflammatory tone and questioned his knowledge of history, philology, and Arabic.
Bernard Lewis had some criticisms of Said.
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Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country.
The report about the citizenship of John Getty was reported by NPR.
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But in both cases, the feds can help.
In a third case the feds are not able to assist.
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SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago.
Gambling is a completely accepted.
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Rudy plans to consolidate his lead in the burbs by pushing school vouchers, while Hillary will tap into health-care frustrations and make the election a national contest.
The election has a clear winner.
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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.
Republicans want to spend less money on social programs.
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but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight
There are no convicts that need beheading.
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