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Oreskes declined to tell him, of course, who the Times ' sources were.
Oreskes knew who the Times' sources were and kept it to himself.
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Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth.
It's well-proven that higher savings would substantially increase growth.
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Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.
The editor recommended that I write about race relations in America.
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In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages.
The election pages were financed by companies like ABC, Washington Post and CNN.
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The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.
Failure of the West is a book that condemns the international community's failure to stop the Bosnia murders.
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All you've said when you endorse privatization is that if there were water, it should be used to make lemonade.
You are an advocate of private insurance.
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Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
One way that restaurants cook sausage, is to fry them.
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COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns.
what an awful effort, slick.
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The agonized expression on his face looks like a kind of rapture.
He is in agony because he stubbed his toe.
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They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.
Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek, and Steve Austin were very popular.
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Same-sex marriage would have no direct effect on the rights and obligations of parenthood.
Same-sex marriage would permanently and irrevocably change parental obligations.
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The point of the rape charge is that it's different.
The author does not see the charge of rape as being different to other types of charges.
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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.
Sex addiction is something that can be cured through medical science.
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Who says a creative-writing MFA is a sure path to permanent unemployment?
Who says creative-writing MFA is a path to employment?
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A Utility Maximizer wants to acquire many things, including cash, but also such things as trips to the beach, time to watch TV, adorable grandkids, and (probably most important in this case) professional prestige.
A Utility Maximizer doesn't mind when they lose money in the stock market.
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But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.
Rips appears hesitant to acknowledge the challenge, or even mention it.
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The compositions become ever more undulating and graceful.
The compositions are smooth.
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So, to pose the obvious Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?
Nebbish individuals are equally as likely to be found in other religions.
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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.
Everybody agrees that England made the most of the North Sea oil windfall.
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Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ...
This was one of Isherwood's personal favorite plays.
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In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder.
A family is waiting in the lobby.
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The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.
Brosnan prepared intensively for the opening chase with a team of stunt coordinators.
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His technique is too methodical and slow, she said.
He moves very slowly in his technique.
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They hype you by giving you an award.
The award acts to motivate the recipient.
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The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill.
It is impossible to transform from normal to abnormal.
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Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.
Websites are generally accessible internationally.
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The more fantastic grow the evening gowns on the runway, the more uniform grows the garb of the crowds on the subway.
Evening gowns are a beautiful perennial flower.
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They wouldn't do it with just any woman.
They will accept any and all women.
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The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.
The WNBA can afford to not have suspense and be boring.
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Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article.
There is an age of multinational capitalism.
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For instance, as the mobility of capital reduces the power of unions, the chance for including labor rights in the world trade treaty known as GATT--the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs--grows remote.
GATT is an acronym for Going All To Trump.
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Though this version of libertarianism seems to flirt with anarchism, Boaz isn't worried about disarray.
Libertarianism is dangerous.
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Pokemon creates an entire alternate universe, a land with its own cities, ecosystem, and rules.
Pokemon's universe is the same as the one we live in.
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Some medical ethicists and constitutional scholars say that the Supreme Court was wrong to create the pre-viability/post-viability distinction in the first place.
The constitutional scholars and medical ethicists never agree on anything.
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The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op.
The recording contains no music.
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He's almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
He did not like how he was portrayed.
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Congratulations to all our winners.
The winners played valiantly and they deserve congratulations.
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Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.
Henry James frequently wrote to Sarah Orne Jewett of the novels he read.
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They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man.
He's extremely nice and timid.
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News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.
Greeting cards have grown in popularity among News Quiz participants.
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An accident 40 times worse than Chernobyl is possible.
This disaster made Chernobyl look weak in comparison.
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DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
The marketing is effective.
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Your advice to struck me as amazing.
I thought you gave me great advice.
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in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.
Worried that skeletons may scare children, Compson instead used a family of owls.
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This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.
The Times does not put out a list of the best selling books,
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We've had to reach out to retirees, college students, and civic types, says O'Brien.
O'Brien only sought to reach out to those with full-time jobs.
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Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the predi...
Democrats are receptive to GOP candidates who want to privatize social security.
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Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities.
Slate 60 is a student-first fund.
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2) And yet you secretly desire one so you can capture some magical moments from your childhood.
You did not have any good memories during childhood.
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She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans.
The woman has a mohawk and a pierced nose.
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, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.
They want to pay more taxes than they ever have before.
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You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement.
Schools and communities value history more than athletics.
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The first day after the Democratic primary, Schumer unleashed Too many lies for too long ads.
It is before the democratic primary.
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The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples.
Organized crime is going up, and the environment is deteriorating.
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The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.
Gay Catholics believe the shift in emphasis is big news.
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Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it.
The malls are aware of ways in which the Internet can help them.
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The clearest proof of the new left's poverty is what Clinton and Blair have to say about the middle class.
There are many ways to prove the new left's poverty.
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Thanks again for enduring what must have been a trying cartoon to publish.
Despite the publishing process being very easy and simple, it's still appreciated that you endured it.
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Newsweek says the future of the country may be riding on Powell's campaign to save at-risk kids, but doubts whether the general can persuade corporations to make long-term commitments to philanthropy.
Powell's campaign has been doubted by even his own supporters.
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The Presidential Initiative to Increase Seat Belt Use Nation-wide
Fearing an infringement of personal freedom, the President steadfastly refused to endorse seat belt initiatives.
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For example, the engineers of the battalion exposed to sarin showed no higher illness rates than others.
The exposure to sarin did not show higher rates of illness.
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But there have been cases where the candidate gave us relevant numbers--and with success.
The candidate's numbers never lead to success.
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But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.
Will's work carries weight in sports.
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It's Wallace's lack of interest in Wigand's story--the movie's most powerful--that damns him in the audience's eyes.
The author argues that Wallace did not have any concern for the story of Wignad.
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Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl.
As a young man, Knight dreamed of riding on people's backs.
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I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week.
I've been to, or at least in the vicinity of, multiple McDonald's.
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To take one obscure but critical Life on Earth remained entirely one-celled for 3 billion years.
Life on Earth was once one-celled.
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know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,
These strong emotions will help you to better understand the human condition and will pass after a few days.
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When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?
The ultimate fighting is becoming extremely popular.
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Rolling Stone 's cover story traces Stern's history from mediocre rock DJ to king of shock jocks.
Stern has been in the Rolling Stone many times.
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Edward Murphy, but Commander (later Admiral ) Joseph M. Murph Murphy.
Edward Murphy is related to Joseph M. Murph Murphy
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No, it'll be a grudge match between Reeves and Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, whom Reeves fired as the Broncos' offensive coordinator years ago for insubordination.
Shanahan is a player.
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According to psychologist David Keirsey, you are one of Plato's four types, you were born that way, you will always be that way, and you can find out which one you are by taking the temperament sorter quiz on his Web site.
People do not change.
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ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.
ABC is very involved with network television.
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Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it.
Gibson writes of his condition over a lengthy period.
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So if we really want to pull every possible moral out of our story, we should think about the other people whose interests are at stake when you decide to buy a house.
The more expensive the house, the more there is a stake.
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The baby gets new toys every day, because used toys are immediately discarded.
The baby's used toys are donated to a good cause after being discarded.
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Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine.
Microsoft's add/remove procedure gets rid of all elements of a specific program from a user's hard drive.
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Of course, said Bork, who appears as a regular cast member in those situation comedies that pass as talk shows every night, vigorously extolling the virtues and honesty of Judge Starr.
Bork extolled the honesty and virtues of Judge Starr on the talk show in a very rare appearance by the cast memeber.
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Insurers would then have to cater to their needs.
They require more prescription drug coverage.
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(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.
The words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' need to be replaced.
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Demonstrations on television never look right.
Demonstrations in photographs usually look right to the speaker.
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Similarly, China Telecom has said that it will explore opportunities for strategic investments in [China's] telecommunications industry.
China Telecom has no interest in expanding its investments within its own industry.
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Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush.
A topic was a point of contention among analysts.
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More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light.
The market has recently been gradual.
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Every time he turns up on the scene--and even when (as in the case of Kathleen Willey) he doesn't--people What's he doing here?
Kathleen Willey was a close friend of his.
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(Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.)
Penelope Leach is knowledgeable in the area of child care.
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An exclusive report reveals that controversial feminist Naomi Wolf is advising the Gore campaign on how to win the women's vote.
Naomi Wolf doesn't believe women should have rights.
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I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.
Biggs had never had any females in his bedroom.
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Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.
Truman was quite fond of the ghost that roamed the White House.
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Dr. Richards, can you write a prescription for the tabloids?
will you write a prescription for the papers, Dr. Richards?
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Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.
There was no opposition to poker in the state.
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They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
They never claimed to be bothered by the hijacking attempts.
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He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.
Fred Barnes thinks the tactic is unbecoming in the political realm.
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The message confused some of Red Eye's subscribers, and Red Herring rapidly began a damage control campaign.
Red Herring wrote the message that caused the backlash.
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This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide?
We should be able to imagine people know how to multiply and divide.
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Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
Smith's proposal does not spend what the president has asked for it to spend.
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Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too.
What is good for one person is always good for everyone else.
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Now along comes PK to blame men.
The author thinks PK doesn't intend to blame women.
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He brought along this whole plane full of African-Americans, and some of our really fine citizens are African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business.
He came with a plane full of white people.
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