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The current tumult in Kosovo completes a circle for Milosevic.
There is conflict in Kosovo.
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So I knew Browder as a somewhat gloomy but kind old gent who took a daily constitutional up the block to Nassau street, where he would buy me and Julie a package of Hostess cupcakes--the orange-flavored ones, with icing squiggles on top.
Browder also loved snickers bars.
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It's not like we want it by mid-February.
We want it all the time, every day of every month of every year.
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Lonely and anxious to be used, the condom grows so weary of the wait that he throws away his Either the condom's owner is abstinent, or he's careless.
the condoms were made in Taiwan.
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The best solutions for searching will probably result from a combination of humans and computers.
The best solutions will most likely be results from a combination of both human and computers.
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A sidebar says Monica combed Gennifer Flowers' autobiography for tips on how to seduce the president.
Monica read a book about Gennifer Flowers.
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Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign.
The lump was in the left breast.
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Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.
Those people who support income distribution are always poor themselves.
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Democrats, unwilling to take another beating, folded, voting unanimously for the bill in full committee.
The Democrats voted the bill in.
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Tamara Jenkins, the writer and first-time director, has an eye for absurd juxtapositions that was obviously sharpened by the pain of her nomadic upbringing.
Tamara Jenkins is a writer and a director.
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Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr.
Someone differs extremely from other people watching Russia.
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Then, when the groups learned of one another's existence, the boys immediately drew lines in the sand.
Drawing lines in the sand is an attempt to draw a distinction between various groups.
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is that it sometimes finds those answers too predictably.
You can never predict the answers it will find.
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As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job.
If possible, the parolee wants to get a job in customer service.
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While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site.
The show deliberately tried to surpass Twin Peaks in its plot twists.
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But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks).
Buying $1 of dividends comes with $72 in fees.
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A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit.
The correction apologized profusely for the scandalous actions attributed to the rabbit.
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Part of the answer may be that our financial system has become dangerously efficient.
The financial system is very slow and deliberate in its actions.
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Spins on the monetary 1) It will make Europe the United States' new economic rival.
Europe intended to look more powerful and rival the US when they did this.
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With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.
The 14 million subscribers are mostly children.
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Also, check out this illustrated, in-depth exploration of Beck's fashion choices.)
The in-depth exploration of Beck is well-produced.
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He makes TV commercials in London.
Most people in London like his commercials.
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The media imply that Bush keeps refusing to say whether he has used cocaine.
Bush had previously used cocaine.
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With the glorious exception of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V , there is nothing more demoralizing than an inspirational address.
It is okay to be demoralized as a result of the speech, this provides value to others.
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The most pervasive sign of Klein's brand of French post-structuralism, though, are his narrow ideas about pleasure and control.
Klein is very open minded about many things.
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The cover story profiles a day trader who learns his financial fundamentals from the Web and trusts his feel for stocks.
The trader learned the fundamentals of finance from a 6-week course.
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By making a tax dispute the putative reason for invading a planet, Lucas merely transposed historical events that Americans ought to be familiar with.
The topics Lucas used successfully created an engaging narrative.
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Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract.
Welles wanted to attract the trash-movie audience because he felt they would be widely receptive of the book's specific elements in that style.
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In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one.
Merging companies is very easy and cost effective.
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We hate to sound like Girl Scouts, but you really must accept cookies if you're going to subscribe to
The user must accept cookies in order to subscribe.
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The portion is tiny, the chicken is in rubbery cubes so uniform they barely look like food, and the noodles are all clumped together on one side.
The portion is huge, the chicken is tender and asymmetrical, the noodles are free from each other spanning across the entire dish.
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He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.
He is an artist.
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It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.
One can arrive at very few conclusions about instruments that are right for Beethoven's music.
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If I lose, then it's a reflection on the whole family.
Someone has a chance of losing.
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As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.
The plan for the money from the heist will be to divide the money between themselves.
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Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.
Critical Path is a tech company.
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The changes were attributed 1) increased cohabitation
There are ten other factors that the changes are being attributed to.
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Variety reported that Harvey once locked a producer in a Cannes hotel room until the producer sold Miramax the rights to distribute his film.
Variety reported that Harvey locked a producer in a hotel room until the producer agreed to sell Silvercup Studios the rights to distribute.
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The paper's art critic compared the exhibit to unprocessed sewage and said that if Emin wins the prize, as she very well might, her victory will testify not to the vitality of British art but to a campaign of promotion so brazen that it has left even the cynical London art world awestruck.
The paper's critic loved the exhibit, and believed British art was flourishing.
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Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.
Linda Tripp may be in a lot of trouble.
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He felt a bond with us as fellow writers.
Writers are very isolated from one another.
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But in the long run, it's unavoidable.
It cannot be avoided.
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Don't take my word for it.
I do not know.
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Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!
The tobacco dealer talks so fast he is incomprehensible.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.
A lot of men die young.
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White critics of integration include the neo-conservatives , former liberals who supported the civil-rights mainstream until the early '70s.
White people were not universally in favor of integration.
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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.
He made short paint blots in twelve different colors.
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perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.
The quiet cottage is in the center of New York City.
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Recently, three economists named Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite (for whom I will use the collective abbreviation CMP) have proposed a compromise between the two On the one hand, people do not care directly about their relative positions in the wealth distribution.
The compromise sought to further establish a middle class.
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He enrolled at the Dallas Conservatory of Music, and sang Gilbert and Sullivan in New York City opera houses before perceiving that there was a market in hillbilly songs.
He had no singing talent and failed at his attempts to make a career of music.
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When Time asks if Jiang should make a gesture on human rights to ease relations with America, Jiang I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture.
There is no issue regarding relations with America.
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Of course, in some sense Dunlap must think that growth is important, because otherwise he wouldn't have spent billions of dollars to buy Coleman and First Alert and Signature Brands.
Dunlap was hoping to merge all three companies.
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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.
Anthony Giddens is a sociologist "rockstar" and his relationship with Blair helped rekindle interest in research.
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More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light.
It's a different way to look at what has happened to the market recently.
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(Most A fictitious manservant, supposed to be a sort of African-American Everyman, contemplates assassinating Wallace.)
Someone wants to harm Wallace.
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But Press didn't call anyone a racist.
Press did call people xenophobic.
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He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump.
Trump erected buildings.
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Lamar Alexander's campaign never got off the ground because the American people can recognize a phony ().
Because the American people saw Lamar Alexander as somebody who could not be trusted, his campaign was not very sucessful.
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In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...
The Limey is a film about a British felon recently released from prison that comes to America.
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The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994.
Jones was let go in 1994.
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A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
There has never been any incompetence in financial aid administration.
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Newsweek also runs an essay from Clinton-loyalist-cum-moralist George Stephanopoulos, who urges the prez to come clean.
George Stephanopoulos wrote a piece for a magazine giving advice to Clinton.
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In Congress, where people think of themselves as underpaid, there's hostility toward Bill Gates based on the fact that he's got a lot of dough and doesn't share it with people like them.
Some people in Congress hate Bill Gates.
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When you see Bradley, you see a naturally diffident man talking about how he would like to run for president and fretting about the distance between his ideal campaign and the real one.
Bradley is already planning the next step.
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Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
Laibson's imperfect altruists never have to deal with any problems large or small.
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He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.
Technical issues aside, the experiment was very informative.
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And Pooh belongs to America for economic reasons as well as literary ones.
Pooh has a belonging to America.
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Based on this assessment, NATO has kept ground forces out of Kosovo, allowing atrocities to continue, and has kept its planes high above Serbian anti-aircraft batteries, limiting our pilots' ability to distinguish refugees from Serb forces on the ground.
This assessment has has influenced NATO decisions.
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Why hasn't natural selection corrected the immune system's misguided response?
Natural selection has yet to correct the immune system's responses.
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They are great respecters of private property.
They respect private property and expect that respect back.
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I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?
A play or musical piece is being told or performed.
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I can imagine a channel devoted to such productions.
I see no value in the productions.
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The allegation, reported in Newsweek , is that when Willey met alone with Clinton at the White House in 1993 to ask for a paying job, Clinton made a pass at her--a charge denied by the president's attorney.
The allegation by Willey toward the president was proven to be false.
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Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.
The Red Army Chorus members were very polite and were never intoxicated during the time in Iraq.
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And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign.
Warner-Lambert is a car company.
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, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.
This text references the crime of aiding in bomb threats.
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So the argument is that putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund more profitable and avoid, or at least put off, the day it runs out of money.
Stocks will only lose you money.
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Note 3 : Here's Theroux on
There are more than three notes provided.
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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.
The criticism of Nixon from the Washington Post was at times illegal.
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
He hasn't done that, not anywhere.
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And a great marketing Buy my books, because they're good for your daughter.
He is selling school encyclopedias.
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Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
Time magazine has been in existence since before the 1980's.
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You can fast the next day.
It's not recommended that you fast for two days in a row.
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The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.
Teens are forgoing marriage in response to their pregnancies.
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The Shopping Avenger right away made contact with the Super 8 executive offices.
Super 8 has executive offices.
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But the studio system in Hollywood disappeared while studio execs remained important as deal makers, and the same could happen in advertising.
The studio system of Hollywood has undergone some changes.
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The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.
Many people still don't believe in human evolution.
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But the blinking eyes in his mechanical ballet are heavy with mascara, while the sexy mouth shines with lipstick.
his nails were also adorned in a beautiful shade of purple nail polish.
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He felt a bond with us as fellow writers.
He felt the bond with the other writers after meeting them.
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99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver.
Republicans would not listen to Starr.
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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.
Morrisism deals with the ability to evade others easily.
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Chances are that if you know she's running around, it's likely your brother does, too.
There is no chance that your brother will know about her activities under any circumstances.
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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.
Scientists continued learning more about how the ocean provides heat and chemicals to create life.
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Newsweek notes that while the Dalai Lama promotes religious understanding and meditation, he opposes abortion, contraception, and homosexual acts.
The Dalai Lama gives out condoms to his followers.
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He was too old, his back hurt too much, he had too many outside interests ...
He would never be able to return to his last job.
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In a way, it's Bradley's fault.
Bradley did it on purpose.
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Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.
Cultural tourism is evolving, glamorizing masterpieces.
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He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
Leonard Bernstein has feelings of self-loathing after having a bad concert.
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DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
It's not a marketing trick, according to the DOJ.
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America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.
America in the 1990s was poorer than America in the 1950s.
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