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In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.
Sawyer did not have a say in the decision.
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Even Graham's earliest confessions of incompetence are refuted by her father's transparent scheme to groom her for some top slot at the Post . After she graduates from the University of Chicago, he arranges a job for her as a reporter at the San Francisco News , and afterward hires her as a Post editorial writer.
Her father helped her with getting a job.
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It just means they're really, really serious about you.
They want to get rid of you.
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Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.
There is a sense of fun and excitement in the referenced piece.
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When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer.
She only watches TV in the evenings.
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And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.
GS has made an inquiry regarding congress.
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But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background.
Albright's ethnic background is something he finds unnecessary to speak about.
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Then again, the tabloids have to give credit when love proves the cynics wrong.
Cynics are never wrong.
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Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours!
Lucinda wants him.
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The new translation of Homer's The Odyssey has whipped up so much fervor that Paul Gray in Time has proclaimed the existence of the Fagles phenomenon.
the fresh interpretation of The Odyssey has fallen completely flat on it's audience.
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If a politician were to say today that he opposes abortion except when yadda yadda yadda , we would all know what he means, and we would know what was meant if, after an arrest, a police officer pulled out a card and just said yadda yadda
The politicians have no opinion on abortion.
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In this climate popular hostility was trained against powerful private interests and gave new life to anti-Masonry as a political movement.
Masonry is not without its detractors, some people have been against it.
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
The way that people organize socially changes over time.
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I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset.
I met Boris Shub when I was in my early twenties.
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Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ).
Everybody completely understands why Bunt is aimless.
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Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them.
The group is a band.
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In the warren of grungy rooms beneath the dance floor--the celebrities' sanctum sanctorum--the coke was consumed by the linear foot, and (according to the author) the odd European contessa could be found handcuffed to a water pipe, getting squired from the rear by one of the pretty shirtless busboys.
The rooms beneath the dance floor were immaculately clean at all times.
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At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk.
The large woman did not use the escalator.
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De Kooning himself seems to have left the room.
De Kooning is still in the room with us.
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Schumer immediately countered by running the D'Amato commercial in New York City, labeling it the ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see.
Schumer ranthe ad to attack D'Amato's unpopular policy positions.
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Since communism closed shop in Russia, all the volunteers have disappeared.
Communism has been flourishing in Russia.
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In other words, Bill Gross could break even--provided he was the only advertiser on the Web.
Bill Gross used the majority of his budget on his internet advertising.
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Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one.
Bruce Ackerman turned down the opportunity to testify before the House of Representatives back in December.
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Loral denies that its report to the Chinese divulged sensitive information about rocket guidance systems, as a Defense Department report claims.
Loral has been consistence with her denial.
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And at a time when ad people all seem to be drawing from the same palette of colors and styles, creativity and distinctiveness are, oddly enough, not synonymous.
All advertisements are visually appealing.
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But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game.
Economics are a high sum game.
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Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.
Morrison is an author that likes to avoid literal references.
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The piece might be weightier if it addressed such issues.
If the piece had more seriously explored the potential economic impact, it would have been given more serious attention.
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And as for Hillary, forget it.
Hillary is not a topic of thought and conversation.
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A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.
The Moebius strip is a two-sided object whose inside is the same as the outside.
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(As a variation on this theme, one can imagine a strategic schooling motive, whereby the least-accomplished children get extra schooling, in the hope that they will become more interesting to converse with.)
The strategic schooling motive wanted to give the most-accomplished children extra schooling as a reward.
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In 1992, only 1,070 abortions were performed after the 25 th week.
A smaller percent of abortions were conducted after week 25.
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Remember, the last guy to argue for a distinction between ideology and competence was Michael Dukakis.
Michael Dukakis does not believe in a difference between ideology and competence.
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But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal.
no one can related to the feeling expressed by Auden.
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even falling knowing already he was dead, and how much I pray to myself I want not, ever,
A person is running from someone.
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At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed Punk, and that's what he is.
Back at the Naval Academy, everyone but McCain earned a nickname.
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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 did an interview with Newsweek.
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One answer is that the speed with which sexy-sounding scientific ideas get picked up by popular culture is getting alarmingly from Physical Review Letters to the latest best seller by Tom Peters almost before you know it.
Unless it is extensively peer-reviewed, few in the public pay attention to scientific advancements.
contradiction
Almost nothing is going to happen if a majority must already favor it before any political leader will speak out in its favor.
Political leaders wanted a minority before speaking.
contradiction
Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
A question has been raised regarding the relationship of Starr's reputation and Clinton.
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That is not a Medicare or Medicaid cut, he reassured seniors.
The cut in spending does not pertain to Medicare or Medicaid.
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The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality.
In its response, the Turkish army was brutal.
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The Network Vehicle designers left car phones off the list, I guess, because they assume that car phones are practically standard equipment today.
The Network Vehicle designers needed to remove something from their list for another item they liked more.
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Columba Bush, wife of the Florida governor, declared only $500 worth of goods upon her return from a Paris vacation, but agents found $19,000 in receipts in her passport and fined her $4,100 on the spot.
The receipts found were mostly for works of art and jewelry.
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They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.
Steve Austin is famous for being an accountant.
contradiction
For years the store has declined to sell stickered music, i.e., pop songs whose lyrics are too saucy for your mall.
A customer who wanted to buy an album with explicit lyrics would have had to shop somewhere else.
entailment
Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free.
Donors with respectable qualifications are often sought out.
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I have a friend who was excluded from a jury because he answered yes to the question, Do you think a man who's been arrested is more likely to be guilty than a man who hasn't been arrested?
His friend was picked for the jury.
contradiction
Critics have demanded that UFC install ropes instead.
The UFC will not install ropes.
contradiction
His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
He is a ballet dancer.
neutral
We must only hope that our Pakistani friend does not get to sound too much like the aforementioned Mr. Russert--or any of the other Sabbath gasbags, to use the phrase that the wonderful Frank Rich has popularized.
Frank Rich coined an insulting term for people like Russert.
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I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke.
My mother smoked which always bothered me.
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For most quiz participants, the precarious venture that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.
Quiz participants needed to save everything.
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They have mainstream acceptance and no shock value, and are worn by young career women and old grandmothers alike.
Young and old women accept this mainstream article of clothing due to solidarity,
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But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
People do not have easy access to drugs.
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Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.
The writer is looking forward to smoking their pipe.
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Makes you want to watch Sunday's game just to see how it turns out.
The game in question involves basketball.
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I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude.
the older I get, the grumpier I am.
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Fischel is also the author of The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs.
Fischel has authored a novel.
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Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e.
Firearms and destructive devices are not dangerous.
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Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK.
The man told lies while not under oath.
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(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in
Krugman defended the World Trade Organization.
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two or more of the above.
The list contains at least two items.
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While it makes no sense to worry that you are living well at your grandchildren's expense, you might legitimately worry that someone else is living well at your grandchildren's expense.
Grandchildren must always support you financially.
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Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.
Boris was not injured.
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Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale.
Waas has been reporting for 13 years.
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The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.
Prohibition laws continue to outlaw alcohol in the U.S.
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Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ...
Aaron Whiteheard lives in proximity to other people.
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You just have to be interesting.
You can be dull.
contradiction
A number of Korean businesses went bankrupt, either because of dishonest practices or because the possible Korean share of world markets for some products, like automobiles, had been overestimated.
Not one Korean business has gone bankrupt.
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Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human.
The Belgian scientist was featured in The Sunday Times of London for his accomplishment of cloning a human.
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Some might even take a sketchpad instead, or a paperback volume of Homer.
The sketch pad is a good choice because of the size of the pages.
neutral
This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.
The tournament does not allow Cinderella teams.
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USA Today described the models as struggling actresses, reported that they were unaware of the health risks of donating eggs, and quoted one as saying, I'd rather do this than do Playboy or Penthouse . Harris' sole verified bidder told the paper that selling eggs was better than prostitution.
Some people thing that selling their eggs is better than prostitution.
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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
Americans wanted nothing from the courts.
contradiction
If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government.
A presidential veto could result in a shut down.
entailment
(Just ask New Kids on the Block.
It's not possible to ask New Kids on the Block a question.
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I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.
Only white people are poor.
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You were a former police officer, and yet you got caught setting up and dealing methamphetamine .
You are a law-abiding police officer.
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I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.
A bet of $75 was placed.
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Broadly speaking, I agree with the points David Plotz makes in . Congress has the sole power to declare war, and a bipartisan Congress and the president have cheerfully ignored that clear constitutional fact.
Only congress can declare war.
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Navel-gazingly yours, Katharine
For years, Katharine had been obsessed with belly buttons.
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The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army
They drafted a mentally ill person into the Israeli army.
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I do know that a couple of mornings with the Mach 3 has just about wiped the smirk off my face.
Mach 3 is used in the morning.
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In a sense, the advertising industry is reluctantly moving toward a business model much closer to the so-called free-agent economy than to the traditional idea of a corporation.
The industry that deals with advertisements is static.
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They even agree that this would be a big mistake.
More than one person thinks it's a big mistake.
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The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about.
The Flytrap investigation is convoluted and secretive.
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Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989.
The protest's in Warsaw became violent during demonstrations.
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In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister.
Hard Washington was elected the mayor of Alaska.
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But if God has taken flight, in Gattaca and elsewhere, at least a few of his imitators are trying to save their souls.
Their souls are still being saved even without God.
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This column, as my first in the Strange Bed, is free of history.
The column is very interesting.
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Shareholder value, which is shorthand for executives' obsession with their companies' stock prices, has become the prism through which most of corporate America now sees business.
business executives fixation on their organizations stock prices has become the new norm on how America views business.
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Here, again, was a world they could understand.
They had been here before.
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Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments.
Many people subscribe to Dean Ornish's health advice.
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The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.
Unfortunately, the result was specific to the breasts.
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[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture.
The creator of Peanuts was cautious not to include cultural commentary in his work.
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But the more important question How many teen-age girls are getting pregnant in the first place?
There are really very few teenage girls who get pregnant while in high school.
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If you missed the link about the really big marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit, click .
The earned-income tax credit did not create any changes for married people.
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Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.
His position on abortion is why he switched parties.
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The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers.
The Liggett Group paid more than 11 million.
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