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With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.
Lesbians are more likely to die in a car crash.
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Such a show might have opened with the same Robert Henri portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney included here and brought many of the same paintings she collected out of the vault for a fresh look.
Robert Henri did not have any artistic talent.
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In the frame game, nuance is almost always a loser.
The frame game is a newly released product from Mattel.
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He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian.
It had always been his dream to film a documentary.
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An initiative on the November ballot asks voters to approve slot machines and video poker, proceeds of which will be used to build esteem among the native peoples.
Slot machines and video poker could turn a profit.
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The follow-up should have Why do you think of Christ as a political philosopher?
Christ may have never seen himself as a political philosopher.
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In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
Kodak lost the WTO case.
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After the treaty, they will fall into one of two 1) those that suffer economic sanctions and a clear-cut stigma, and 2) those that have agreed to allow short-notice inspections of any suspicious site in their territory.
It is economically disadvantageous for the winning country to impose economic sanctions on another country.
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Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate.
She is a journalist.
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If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary.
Censorship is always okay.
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And third, in the issue it published the following Monday, Newsweek included the full excerpt--which is where Brill found the out-of-context quote he claims Newsweek ignored.
Newsweek does not fact check like it should.
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If increasing democratization is the test for access to the international-trading system, China has flunked.
China has failed to increase the spread of democracy within its borders.
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The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
Dominic is in a relationship.
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Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge.
The president's symbiotic scourge was Clinton himself.
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They call it tantric sex.
Tantric sex can involve a partner or just be a solo experience.
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It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country.
Authors across the nation aspire to appear in the premier book review.
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Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.
Managed care was highly discouraged by Congress.
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It was immediately clear that Lott should not have said this.
It was clear and obvious why Lott should not have said what he said.
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If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Wood...
Kwanzaa is more popular than Christmas.
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During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs.
The Serbs deserved punishment.
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She says, according to the Post , the secret is opening your mouth 'really wide' when eating.
The Post reported about the secret.
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Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?
He did not achieve anything.
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As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one?
He removed all the signs from a one story house.
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Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.
Americans are coldhearted to our soldiers.
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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 had a large reader base.
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But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny.
If his religious beliefs are not used to hurt people who don't share them we shouldn't be concerned with them.
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For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention.
The journalists are uninterested in anything but Clinton's debauchery.
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The problem is that when a documentary filmmaker seems too scared or cool or arty to violate his own immaculate aesthetic, he ends up weakening his case.
When a filmmaker is too cool to violate his aesthetics, he makes it stronger.
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At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.
Even you can see that they're not reading books.
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The preceding images are not from Beyond Impressionism (online reproduction of art from the Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is forbidden.
Images were displayed.
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The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings.
Some networks are not talking about hard news at all.
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A gesture clearly suited to football's warlike nature, the Salute is named for Denver's Mile High Stadium.
American football has warlink tendencies.
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No horned helmet was found, but the discovery is complicating--perhaps overturning--theories about the settlement of North America.
North America may have been settled in a way different than currently believed.
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Granted, there exists, in the form of a rich language and history, what Huntington would call a core Sinic civilization.
Civilization is meaningless.
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Unlike the Europeanists, the Liberal Humanitarians have turned hawk for moral reasons.
Liberal Humanitarians advocate for using military tactics.
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Microsoft is reaching out to computer novices , says a piece.
Microsoft doesn't reach out to anyone.
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In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products.
People who try to bid for something are also known to sell products at auction.
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Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch.
We can pause for a moment.
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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 only have to read articles to feel right about everything.
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Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.
Your complaint is not without merit.
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I am ready to redeem him!
They are prepared to redeem him.
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And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
At this time the labor-market doesn't care about having highly trained or educated workers.
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And yet it ended up foundering as a result of the inherent uncertainty of the free-market system.
It was a new line of shoes that failed to find success.
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Then, each boy was taken aside and asked how he would divide up rewards among individual boys from your group and the other group.
The boys were taken aside and asked how to divide up rewards while members of both groups listened in.
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Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.
The United States Navy was ineffectual during the Iraq crisis.
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The U.S. has never backed down.
The US does not hide from a fight.
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On Meet the Press , White House Chief of Staff John Podesta We're not negotiating, Tim.
John Podesta is not the White House Chief of Staff.
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These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War.
No military action undertaken by America has ever been objected to by anyone.
contradiction
I spent a lot of time talking to Iowa farmers since January.
I've conversed with multiple residents of Iowa since January.
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House Majority Whip Tom DeLay has a plaque in his office that reads, This could be the day.
Tom DeLay has a barren office.
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This is all pure high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.
It is not pleasant.
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If that is the administration's strategy, it is foolhardy.
It would be wise for the administration to follow this strategy.
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There was evidence that life was present just as soon as the planet cooled and solidified.
The evidence of life was convincing to many.
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DeParle also notes that her husband, Donald, recently found a job, as a hotel maintenance man.
Donald has been looking for a job for awhile and recently got one.
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The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.
Profits at black businesses have increased greatly since the national promotion started.
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The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record.
The suspected shooter had no disciplinary record and was a smart, well-liked student.
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Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
the organizations no longer operates and has shut down.
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If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.
Trying to keep the price of gold from rising would lead Depression era levels of deflation.
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This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambiv...
The passage in question is one of the best of the character studies discussed.
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Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little.
To this day, drug use is heavily featured in teen films.
contradiction
When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing.
Divorce can cause men of high standing to lose social status.
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What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
The artist in question happens to be a modernist painter.
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The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.
No one is solely motivated by money.
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I have never given it a second thought, but recently people seem to be noticing my sneezing and commenting on it, some suggesting I see a doctor.
I just have allergies.
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We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful.
Articles from the New York Times were short, innocuous and lacked originality.
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Along with Mad magazine, he provided comedy to my suburban boyhood--Schulz the philosophical and Mad the topical--at just the right intellectual level for a suburban boy.
The author read every issue of Mad magazine.
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The herbal extract shows success in treating mild dementia and preventing Alzheimer's memory loss.
One concern is that the herbal extract could have unwanted side effects.
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My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed.
She was fired from her jobs for being late to work constantly.
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As developers kill the bugs, they incorporate the solutions into a daily build of the program and test the build to make certain the solutions don't cause additional bugs.
Developers need to be concerned if their bug fixes might introduce further bugs into the software.
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Josh Pons did not like this.
Josh Pons initially supported this but ended up reconsidering the matter.
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According to those who know him, he has learned why newspapers are a public trust since his unfortunate cereal interview.
He did an interview about a breakfast food.
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James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.
James BeauSeigneur used to be a Muslim.
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We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year.
The people the blanket is from does not live in the same city as we.
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Pleasure, for Klein, is the opposite of It's all about gratification and excess.
Klein is most concerned with hedonism.
contradiction
So what if all the negatives are lost?
There is a question if all negatives are lost.
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Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif.
Jerry Brown was sworn in at 3:12PM PST on the dot.
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Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.
The less interest people have in buying a product, the more that product will cost.
contradiction
He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
A lot of people miss the lightness and agility also.
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Even this was Lentauw and Yamasami, Zulu tribesmen, entered the marathon because they happened to be in St. Louis as part of an exhibit about the Boer war.
the marathon had some tribesmen enter due to being in town for an exhibit.
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) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects.
herbal remedies never work, but the good thing is, they never have any nasty side effects.
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However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly.
Parents everywhere knows how little time it is when a baby gets older.
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While Podhoretz may be correct in his opinion of Al Sharpton, his comments regarding Sharpton and Jesse Jackson possess a thinly disguised undertone of As he castigates white liberals for assuming that Negroes could do no wrong, his discussion of Sharpton's actions seem to say, Well, what can you expect?
Podhoretz, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson are pundits that discuss the shifting culture in America.
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The New York Times list is the industry standard.
The New York Times has a lot of confirmation bias.
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Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
The New York Times Book Review contains advertisements.
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Not until that supremely attractive female butt crossed my radar in Nordstrom did I start to feel better.
The female didn't even notice the author at all.
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Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.
Right wing thinking agrees with global multiculturality.
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All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.
All three also have excellent sports teams.
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Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance.
Honore de Balzac wrote an essay about neckties.
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The unit immediately below us has been rented out as a live/work space to a couple with a video business.
There isn't anyone renting out the units surrounding ours.
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Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty.
Malthus proposed a solution for poverty.
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Doctor and refusing women their reproductive rights.
Women don't have any rights regarding having children.
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Entrepreneurs now use cheap new technology, such as remote-operated vehicles, to salvage artifacts from ancient wrecks.
The technology costs a lot.
contradiction
If you do know what cookies are and have set your computer not to accept them, our password/sign-in process won't work for you.
The sign in process won't work with cookies enabled.
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3) The appeals court's decision has nasty ramifications for the entire government.
The appeals court's decision has little impact.
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Time 's James Collins calls it pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun, and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker calls it a solid weekly soap opera.
The pair of reviewers did not like the show.
contradiction
Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.
Man on the Moon is definitive evidence; Kaufman thought up call-in voting.
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The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.
The cover story celebrated the U.S. for their increasingly healthy relationship with China.
contradiction
Coming from a conservative background, my partner has stated on many occasions that his parents won't allow him to stay over at my apartment, even though on some nights this would be preferable to his making the long drive home.
His parents insist that he stay over.
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A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.
Milk covering the marble is used as a metaphor.
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As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.
The written citations are written in black ink.
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