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As a society we may have to face facts.
We collectively probably should accept the truth.
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(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.
This is the only edit needed for Paragraph 19.
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Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!
Scientists have no desire to engage in fornication.
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13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring!
The 13 year old thinks everyone their grade is boring.
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This triathlon kills Churchill, who wins the defeat-totalitarianism contest but flunks the liberation-and-justice contest.
Churchill is a winner in all respects.
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Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.
Workers in South Korea and Taiwan can't earn wages at McDonald's.
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An interview with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski finds him good-humored and sincere.
It was a very serious interview.
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Leave it to the Globe to conclude, JFK Jr, Slashed!
The Globe used very few resources to conclude JFK Jr was slashed.
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For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering
For purposes here, participating in the church choir meets the definition of volunteering.
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There is no good way to measure the gap between women's earnings and their productivity, but it is reasonable to say that their earnings have risen pretty much in line with their productivity.
Women's earnings and productivity have risen proportionally with each other.
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But, The Christians are at it again?
Some people have problems with the Christians.
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One historian has argued cogently that Calvin Coolidge's psychological problems helped .)
a historian showed how much Calvin Coolidge had been deterred due to cognitive problems.
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You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?'
It's important, on a daily basis, to gaze at your reflection and make a specific query of yourself.
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Election 97 uses a new Virtual Reality Modeling Language technology to provide 3-D maps that give British voters a better understanding of how constituencies are spread throughout the country and where the critical districts lie.
Election 97 helps visualize voters throughout Britain.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
Tout deSuite was at once lush and frightening.
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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.
In situations where people are working in group settings no hand is ever out.
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But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.
Morris does not currently engage in what the author refers to as Morrisism.
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The WSJ has these Monica 1) Vernon Jordan isn't part of the joint defense agreement entered into by many other grand-jury witnesses with White House ties.
No witnesses have connections to the White House.
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In the face of this opposition, Republicans played the molester card.
facing resistance, the Republicans had an ace up their sleeve.
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The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as
The Bell Curve can be trusted in all instances.
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Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)
Critics are justified in their negative opinions of the man's work.
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Forcing HMOs to stay in a failing business cannot be good for seniors and would chill entry by others.
When HMOs operate within a failing business, this harms seniors.
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Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.
The mantra ended in 1989.
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The only thing I liked about the first episode is Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante imitating Michael and Kay Corleone.
In the episode, Silvio Dante worked as an improve comic who specialized in performing movie impressions.
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I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns.
The priests and nuns prayers helped me get through this hard time.
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The example of loyalty and When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman).
It is fair politically to hire those who you are close to in important federal government positions.
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The University of Chicago has chosen a new president--but the debate over the ongoing shake-up at the school continues.
There is no president at the University of Chicago.
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It is one of the most cherished questions in Romantic poetry.
There is a lot of romantic poetry in soap operas.
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The second punishment would be doubled--2,000 lost Windows sales would mean 2,000 lost Internet Explorer sales, not 1,000.
Lost Windows sales would be connected to lost Internet Explorer sales.
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This seems like increasing liberalism, but it's only encroaching commerce, less a commitment to free speech than a determination to sell paper plates, cups, and napkins for kicky Fourth of July fun.
Paper plates, cups, and napkins are used during Fourth of July events.
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No, because this is something that's private.
This was broadcast to everyone.
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Bill, our program manager (chief tech guy) answers questions about problems and possibilities in reading SLATE.
Bill was the program manager when SLATE was started.
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One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam.
The shut down was directly related to rumors that Saddam was planning an attack.
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.
McDonald's is a top employer.
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But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?
I do not agree now.
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That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt.
Failing to deal with love tarnished his reputation.
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A more honest summary might be We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops.
Caltech is a California based medical research company established 7 years ago.
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Twenty-four terms is enough for anyone.
The author argues that people should have an unlimited number of terms.
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The most ordinary features are, aesthetically, the most extraordinary.
It is made from diamonds.
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Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his [Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe.
Yardley created Exley.
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The pose and the prose of journalists have changed since Ben Hecht's The Front Page . Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called journalists.
Hecht made millions off the subscription to The Front Page.
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Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).
Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall drew a larger crowd.
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How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?
The questions that were asked were not very important.
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In this particular case, the buyers come to Las Vegas to purchase the goods rather than having them shipped out of the city, but the economics are the same.
The economics between shipping and coming to Vegas could not be more different.
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Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
It's a piece of cake to keep developers from adding features.
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First of all, my extreme apologies for the spelling mistake.
The author is not a perfect speller.
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There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.
The invocations of the Holocaust are appropriate in this context.
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Blacks aren't celebrating because they fear an economic downturn and because equality is still elusive.
Equality has been fully achieved.
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If I really own my modem, then I must have an unqualified right to dial up anywhere, any time, and suck in whatever is out there to be sucked.
The author is convincing a lot of people he doesn't own his modem.
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Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.
Some women in the U.S. got gold medals for their performance at the Olympics in 1998.
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And a number of large firms have downsized successfully, most obviously General Electric, which cut an astounding 170,000 jobs worldwide in 12 years while simultaneously tripling its sales.
Firms cannot increase sales while downsizing their labor force.
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Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.
Austin Powers did not have a Penis Enlarger in his movie.
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Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
More evidence has proved that scientists' knowledge of the ocean is unquestionable.
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The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.
Richard LaGravenese is a professional basketball player.
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Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect
There was one guy who wanted to replicate that same effect.
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That, of course, is precisely why Java has become such fertile ground for cyberevangelism.
Some people used Java as a way to promote certain capabilities of the internet.
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If you can use viral marketing and Abercrombie & Fitch in the same sentence, you too can be a Gen Y pundit.
Most people in Generation Y have never even heard of Ambercrombie & Fitch.
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He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan.
He secretly supports the democrats.
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He is preaching to the kinds of middle Americans that liberal activists long ago gave up for dead.
The man is preaching to working-class Americans.
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When some of his Giants players had drug problems, Parcells spent a week at a rehab center, scouting if it was good enough for his men.
Parcells scouted out rehab centers so that they were good enough for his Giants players.
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For state-of-the-art articles on piercing, see Flesh Canvas.
Flesh Canvas publishes articles related to piercing.
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While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.
Thousands of jobs will be lost.
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You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.
This person is considered a Prudie.
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I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.
The author likes John La Care now, but he used to hate him.
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That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.
Touching other people and having human physical contact is good.
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The last national gambling commission was in the mid-1970s.
There hasn't been a national gambling commision since the 1970s.
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The Nike and Reebok logos are now officially declared badges of shame.
both Nike and Reebok logos bring a sense of humiliation.
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The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral.
Dalmatian farming can be a difficult business.
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Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.
There is really no way to show readers your creative process.
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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.
The RPH is principled because of the strong morals instilled in him during his childhood.
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Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place.
The animals are intended to appear like genitals.
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They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating.
not everyone shares this view, though
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But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection.
It might be difficult.
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July 9, PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ran, without comment, all the PDFA's new ads.
This is the first time the FDFA put out ads.
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It's not like we want it by mid-February.
We don't really expect it until April or May.
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They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level.
This regulation ia in the favor of the people.
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A renaissance of sociological research in the United Kingdom, as well as the fact that Prime Minister Tony Blair's intellectual guru is sociologist and London School of Economics Dean Anthony Giddens.
Tony Blair's guru Anothony Giddens helped spur sociological research in the United Kingdom
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As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.
The author holds a view which is contrary to that of the Jewish tradition.
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Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless.
Diseases contracted in early infancy do not have a lifetime impact on health.
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Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.
The Palestinian Authority police had a motive for killing the real-estate dealer.
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Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.
Everyone has the same way of thinking at AT&T.
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I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.
There is hope the oxymoron will serve as a reminder.
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So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself.
eBay has very cheap share prices.
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Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.
Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe are both influential figures.
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He's just finished Isaac's Storm, a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and reads Robert Parker's detective-for-hire stories.
Isaac's Storm is about a historic weather event.
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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 intelligent.
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The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money.
It is difficult for companies to go public in the stock options market.
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Bush, or the Al Gore who is.
In some respects Bush wouldn't mind being compared to Al Gore.
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President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
In Washington, the leaders of Israel and the United States met.
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The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
The stock market is crashing.
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It is true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than 5 percent, but it is equally true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than reasonable.
Jurors are often scared to make decisions.
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Who is the chairman of the Microsoft Corp.?
Microsoft Corp. has a chairman.
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While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine.
The fine is 500 dollars.
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See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.
The author believes that nobody should ever drink alcohol.
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Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.)
www.microsoft.com/ie is not a place where you can get a new copy.
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Needless to say, one such entry would be unacceptable, and we've adopted strict safeguards to prevent any such problems.
Multiple entries have already been placed.
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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).
The author believes that equity corporations are considered an achievement for human civilization.
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You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance.
There are no arguments for intelligence.
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4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams.
The superstar leaves the industry to find new revenue streams for himself.
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Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears.
There was no doubt the photograph provided clear and factual evidence.
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