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Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.
Sam Giancana at one point ordered someone to be killed.
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Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
K has not considered that some perjurers get away with it.
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Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.
There was a recent surge in the price of Oil in the Northeast part of the country.
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It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour.
Linda Ashland makes a lot of money as an Astrologer.
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As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.
Bradley is very popular.
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Do they have an open marriage in which his extracurricular activity is accepted, or is each new revelation a painful surprise to her?
His extracurricular activity is accepted because she doesn't want him to leave her.
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All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost.
The materials can be accessed at no charge.
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Congratulations to all our winners.
Praise was not given to the winners for their efforts.
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Winesburg, Ohio, like cyberspace, was a perfectly efficient information market.
Winesburg, Ohio is a safe place for information.
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They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.
The password was simple.
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I can confirm he does, for I have tried to convey the same Ionian Enchantment in my recent book How the Mind Works.
This book has nothing about Ionian.
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When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.
Pooh is on CD-ROM.
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It draws sidelong glances and playground taunts, and it may give the adopted child an identity crisis.
Adopted children may be angry because of bullying.
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She made a great number of friends, from village women to guerrilla leaders, multiplying the number of foreign contacts she faithfully reported on the security form required of all CIA applicants.
She has never been associated with the CIA in any way, she's never even heard of them.
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Missed the link to more blather on independence?
There are no talks on independence.
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I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.
David is being prickly because he is feeling defensive.
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The heroes of the movie are a man and woman who escape the system with their baby and are going to live like a traditional family.
The main characters in the movie have a baby.
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Another scheme, reported by the Chronicle last May, was the case of a fast-talking ex-convict who convinced dozens of professors that he was the nephew of esteemed Berkeley race and sports sociologist Harry Edwards.
The professors were tricked by an ex-convict.
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I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does.
I know the answer, while Joan Didion is clueless.
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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 is about World War I.
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The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.
The Globe published Martin's open letter.
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Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier.
The technological improvements have made the investment banks more profitable than ever.
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But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands.
Tiepolo's vision was of a place where everything simply is.
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The AIB delivers real-time information in the banner.
AIB does not possess the ability to deliver real-time info.
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An ecological theory of the kosher laws suggests that they're meant to proscribe animals who'd compete with us for the foods we need.
The kosher law suggests animals don't need to be proscribed.
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It recounts the misdeeds of Phantomd, a teen-age cracker who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught.
Phantomd was eventually apprehended by authorities.
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And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time.
Changing external conditions don't always change results of experiments.
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But Press didn't call anyone a racist.
No one was called racist by Press.
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I am fortunate enough to have two mothers-in- one who gave birth to my wonderful husband and one who is married to his father.
I am married to my wife.
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Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.
There were some issues that need addressed.
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Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.
The more customers they lost, the more potential Internet Explorer users they gained.
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is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.
The article accepted the number that was available, admitting the limitations to their own claims.
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But even then, the Thernstroms equivocate.
The Thernstroms use deceptive language.
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e) Some or all of the above.
At least one other option - such as a through d - likely exists.
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In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen.
in 1993, the paper shut down.
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As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again.
It is cold outside.
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Fearing his powers might be waning as he approached 30, Nash decided he would solve the most important unresolved problem in the Riemann Zeta conjecture.
There were other factors besides age which resulted in Nash's perception that he was losing his powers.
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That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory.
The lessons taught by the rat group are meaningful and should be disseminated.
neutral
This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.
The pagan gods also showed some favor to redheads, although less than they did to blondes.
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I hear you, she said by way of introduction.
She remained silent in her interactions with them.
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This is too bad, because Pokemon is undoubtedly much smarter and more charming than what will supplant it.
Pokemon will be replaced by something else very soon.
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Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.
The vetting committee were gate keepers at the door.
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A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence , the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly.
There are those who doubt Albright's story.
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Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.
Hillary was only a prude because Clinton could never be sexually satisfied.
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Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it.
The malls don't have any use for the Internet at all.
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Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising.
Television has featured anti-drug advertising.
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Manifolds, one must understand, are fairly wild and exotic beasts in mathematics.
Manifolds are a regular occurence.
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Nonetheless, Ehrlich's book was treated to a 21 st anniversary reprinting in 1997.
In 1997, Ehrlich's book got a 21st anniversary reprinting despite everything.
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Anglicans are particularly aggrieved by the no-Protestants policy.
Anglicans are Protestants.
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One had to separate the relationship, whatever it was, between Monica, et al.
Monica was part of a relationship.
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After all, it's only a movie.
the movie's runtime is 111 minutes.
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The forgery story churned its way into the Washington Times on Oct. 26.
There were no stories about crime in the October 26th issue of the Washington Times.
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No, as it happens, it doesn't.
It definitely doesn't.
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A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.
The plane is designed to be easier to fly than a traditional aircraft.
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He still exaggerates the hostility displayed, and says that Saxton won't let me answer when in fact Reich's chief economist is later allowed to deliver a lecture-length reply.
Reich's chief economist was given just as much time to speak as they were.
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H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death.
The Wall of Death is in every baby superstore.
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Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.
One way to cook chicken is in hot oil.
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Best of category is a tough one here.
Best of category is always easy, in every situation.
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There's nothing in Pecker that isn't done more brilliantly--and more subversively--every week on Mike Judge's inspired cartoon series King of the Hill .
Critics vastly prefer the animated series King of the Hill to Pecker.
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While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy.
Rompley spent quite a while trying to explain their nuanced, complex thoughts regarding drug enforcement.
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Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending.
Some people did not like the novel because it was too cliche and has an unrealistic ending.
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Forcing HMOs to stay in a failing business cannot be good for seniors and would chill entry by others.
People lose confidence in HMOs when they see seniors getting harmed.
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Lovers of certain breeds readily acknowledge the positive genetic tendencies of their favorite dogs.
Dog lovers really enjoy acknowledging the strong points of their favorite dogs genetics.
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Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.
Privatization takes away choices from the employee.
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From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful.
According to the report, the wife intended to cheat on the husband.
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In the case of drug testing, however, the proposed warrantless blanket invasions of privacy serve only a symbolic value.
A warrant is always required to invade privacy.
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Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.
Clinton had never been to McDonald's before.
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Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent.
The position sounds very appealing because of how straightforward and easily understood the requirements are.
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Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was te...
Mehta was a much respected staff writer from the 1960s to 1994.
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In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole.
News Corp is the best for the interests of the game.
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Are we backing the Kosovo Liberation Army?
The Liberation Army was able to liberate the people of Kosovo.
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, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it.
Bush saw no importance in the Pakistani coup.
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Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft.
Adderall is about three times more popular among students as Zoloft is.
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The Associated Press notes she's leaving two months after The New Yorker brought in a new publisher and began to merge operations with other Conde Nast publications to save money.
The New Yorker is merging operations with Conde Nast and bringing in a new publisher.
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hereby announces its intention to mark the year 2000 by anointing a Person of the Millennium.
An individual will be receiving a person of the millennium title in the year 2000.
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But I'm going to have a specific agenda that addresses what I think are the big concerns as we go into the 21 st century.
To solve 21st century concerns, I will develop a detailed plan.
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The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.
The going concern of the organization is not in jeopardy.
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Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.
Greider is a politician.
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(Yes, if it uses speed attacks rather than electrical ones.)
No, speed attacks will not work.
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I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.
The woman was assured that she would be able to access the wedding.
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When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.
There is a biological, physical desire in men and that echoes sociologically and psychologically in our society, e.g. fashion.
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It's bread and circuses without the bread.
The author isn't satisfied with the situation being talked about.
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To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.
If you think about how few days you have, you will value them more.
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Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.
There was a lot of criticism around the promotion.
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Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.
she continues to chatter on in a very unconvincing way.
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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're in favor of privatization.
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His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling.
Fallingwater is protected.
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Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?
No senators had an interest in bananas.
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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 talk to an Iraqi citizen.
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As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.
The author believes that atrocities have those who are responsible for them.
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Truly, I believe the country is in the best of hands, but how do I rid myself of these impure thoughts?
The country's leadership leaves me with no worries.
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are laughing at us saying if we make it thsese [ sic ] stupid ass Niggaz Will Buy it.
They don't think they can make anybody buy it.
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What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.
It's expected that Medicare go through these types of issues every few years.
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Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
America's cities may not always be benefitting the rest of the country.
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
Continuous improvement is caused by working inefficiently.
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Willey might have a better case against Clinton if she wants to make it--and if her story is true.
There might be a better case against Clinton.
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It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul.
The haul in question took place over nine days.
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Buy utilities, bottom feed on mutual funds that invested in the Southeast Asian markets and got slammed, try real estate investment funds, and seek stability in U.S. bonds.
U.S. bonds don't offer stability.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Kahn has created many series about a wide range of topics.
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Consilience is, in any case, an excellent book.
The book Consilience is a terrible book.
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