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But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us.
Dowd decided to tell us only after long deliberation.
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When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS.
They told of a sign that politely welcomes the Canadians,
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So are bitchin' and stoked . Every generation insists on having its own new words for the most aggressively up-to-date aspects of life.
Each generation uses the same words.
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The Falcons, who have stunk perennially, are football's best Cinderella story in years.
The Falcons have gained a lot of fans recently.
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The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.
The Flytrap-Watergate comparison is expected to backfire.
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The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot.
The nanny is in charge of three children.
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Standard Medicare coverage pays only 80 percent of doctor and hospital bills and nothing for drugs.
Standard Medicare covers everything, including drugs.
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Newsweek 's Michael Jordan cover story focuses on off-the-court Jordan.
The story tells detailed basketball stories from Michael Jordan's career.
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Entering Final Four weekend, I rank no higher than 12,277 th place in any of them.
I ranked 1st place in the Final Four weekend.
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Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign and the Partnership for a Drug Free America propagandized ceaselessly about the perils of drugs.
Public health officials disagreed with Nancy Reagan's approach in demonizing drugs.
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Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.
Rothschild was married.
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But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest.
They could not just give the magazine away.
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Cynics' He's playing dead . Anti-Microsoft analysts spin the same theory the other Gates, having been pulled over by the cops for aggressive driving, is sliding into the passenger seat and giving the wheel to Ballmer, whose record is clean, so that the cops will go easy on the company.
The cops will not pull Gates and Ballmer over for aggressive driving.
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Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.
The street number was purposefully stated incorrectly because the Times wanted to dissuade people from going to it.
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Biblical overtones--the tale of Jacob and Laban--bubble up from Malamud's simplicity.
Malamud's simplicity has biblical overtones.
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But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.
Will's work in journalism never matters.
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We have some very tough laws against gun violence in Texas, and federal law with its mandatory sentences is tough as well.
The laws on gun violence are very lenient in Texas.
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It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up.
It is not certain how long Nerve can continue.
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Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict.
Clinton was not familiar with Arafat.
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Last year he tried and failed to invoke the War Powers Resolution for the Bosnia mission.
The senator was successfully able to invoke the resolution.
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The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.
He was in Congress more than one time.
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Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.
The international coalition is no longer completely whole and united.
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A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that.
The speaker disagrees that women should feel this way.
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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.
There are many companies that want to go public.
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Little Herring ? What the hell kind of moniker is that?
The name Little Herring is ridiculous.
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John Conyers, D-Mich., have used the Hale case to call for Starr's resignation.
John Conyers is a Democrat from the state of Michigan.
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Our powerful, multipurpose computers will continue to become even more powerful, but as they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--their appeal will be limited by their price.
In the coming years, multipurpose computers will become weaker over time.
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USA Today 's modular layout and bold type anticipated the typical multidimensional Web page, almost inviting the finger to point and click, to follow Christine Royal through the process of her cosmetic surgery, to jump to the daily profiles of Olympic athletes, to explore the depths of the Bosnia power struggle.
The website is dull and hard to use.
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Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist.
I believe in minimal realism.
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She studied the First Amendment with Tommie the Commie Emerson and was seen around the influential circle of Robert Borosage, later connected to the Institute for Policy Studies which promoted pro-Soviet movements in the Third World at the height of the renewed Cold War.
She was around people who believed in communism.
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But they didn't make that case, at least to me.
They made a different case to me which I found compelling.
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But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and
There is more than one chapter.
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The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.
The Times is the only paper to use such a methodical process.
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When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS.
The neighbors saw a NO CANADIANS sign.
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George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash .
George Mitchell is getting paid and was picked to be a liaison between The Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed.
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(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.)
Every placed phone call was returned.
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And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment.
He would prefer to consent over being impeached.
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Jesse Ventura to obstruct Pat Buchanan's run for the Reform Party nomination.
Jesse Ventura has entered the political arena.
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Newsweek 's ninth health cover of the year warns that E. coli food contamination is more common than is reported and won't be eradicated with simple beef recalls like the one at Hudson Foods.
The beef at Hudson Foods made many people sick.
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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 didn't need to mark car phones as a feature since they're so commonplace nowadays.
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According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.
Janet Reno said the NSC staff followed the instructions perfectly.
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Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building.
At least one book has been written involving the theme of empire-building.
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That's what I remember about Woodstock.
Woodstock erases all of your memories when you leave there.
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Not all Republicans think this way.
Republicans all think alike.
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Martha's Web readers are younger and richer than her magazine subscribers.
Martha does not have a website on the internet.
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The company, which is now traded publicly, was started in 1980 by a psychologist named Stephen Gordon, who was restoring a Queen Anne-style house in Eureka, Calif., and found it maddeningly difficult to locate the period-style fixtures he needed.
Gordon kept the company private.
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Nash pioneered game theory, became schizophrenic, recovered, then won a Nobel Prize late in life.
Nash maintained a healthy mental state throughout his lifetime.
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According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
John Podhoretz believed that accepting the proposal would portray the magazine as being too friendly towards Gingrich.
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Some weeks before, Nash had declined a University of Chicago offer of an endowed chair on the grounds that he was scheduled to become the emperor of Antarctica.
The University of Chicago took Nash's claims incredibly well.
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Given this prospect, the country should save heavily to make provision for the future--and lacking the kind of pay-as-you-go Social Security system that allows Americans to ignore such realities, it does.
The country should not be careless with social security.
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News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom.
The news has no doubts and is sure of their thoughts.
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Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.
Hersh spent years undercover in order to obtain such information.
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The report also cites China's transparent intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties when it assumes control of the territory in July.
The report cites China's intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties.
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Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.
Being a Democrat is incidental to Henry Gonzalez's personality.
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Framing the election around the desirability of tax cuts is risky business for Clinton; since the age of Reagan, the public assumes that the Republicans are the anti-tax party.
Republicans have been known to cut taxes ever since Reagan.
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Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions.
This mindset has caused untold damage to recovering drug addicts.
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The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon.
Tim LaHaye is a liberal.
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An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).
The essay praises McInerney and Elli for writing about fashion models.
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In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights.
New York continues to be a mecca for immigration and new ideas.
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Remember that only one generation before my remembered holiday party, most people didn't have health insurance at all.
In the past, the majority of people didn't have a health insurance policy.
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.. It must be said that this kind of approach is very tricky.
Plenty of people stumble when taking this approach.
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The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans.
Lots of people visit a joke collection about Al Gore.
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Academia's most popular one-year fellowship, the Guggenheim, has been awarded to dozens of academics, including the University of Chicago's Neil Harris, who will research the history of the American urban newspaper building, and Williams College's Richard Stamelman, who will study the literature and culture of perfume.
Neil Harris failed to acquire the Guggenheim fellowship.
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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 ).
Thomas Kelly read the book extensively enough to understand Bunt's character.
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Good Kids watch less television.
Many scientists agree that less TV is better.
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Rudy plans to consolidate his lead in the burbs by pushing school vouchers, while Hillary will tap into health-care frustrations and make the election a national contest.
Rudy and Hillary will focus on different issues.
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One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.
Barker does not create any overarching message or warning in his films.
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To ring in the new year in 1997, he reportedly blew up a Cadillac.
The Cadillac was made in 1992.
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Whatever the reasons for this deplorable twist in public morality, America's loss of its moral compass is a tragedy even more consequential than Bill Clinton's adultery.
Bill Clinton was not completely faithful in his marriage.
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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 did in fact realize what would happen once he took down the final sign.
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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.
Harvey desperately needed the distribution of his film, so he went temporarily insane.
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Only a handful of the 200,000 Serbs have come back to the Krajina.
The rest of the Serbs were expected to come back in the next few months.
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He adopted an upbeat American organicism derived from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
An American organicism drew his inspiration from Thoreau and Whitman.
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Religious people are finding evidence of God in recent scientific discoveries.
These scientific discoveries include so called God Particles.
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Disney's Tarzan is not only post-imperial, post-racist, and post-classist but also post-masculine.
The author does not have a good opinion of Disney's Tarzan.
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Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.
They'll likely respond to your gripe next week.
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The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.
Oral sex should be considered having sex.
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They may want to consult an astrophysicist as well as a plastic surgeon.
They may want to consult more than one person.
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Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
No one knows the origin of modern Japanese.
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People will argue about where to draw the line.
People never argue about where to draw the line.
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Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
There is already a 20 percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
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Now Clinton risks reversing, at least partially, the actual, practical process that brought him the caseload declines he's crowing about today.
Clinton loves to talk about the practical process that brought him the caseload declines.
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Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.
Kim is very overwhelmed at the moment.
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The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.
The Times chose to ignore input from every department.
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So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.
The consequences of a potential world in which World War II is avoided could be utopian.
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Play is activity engaged in for the enjoyment of it without regard to the financial remuneration.
depending on the activity, playing can burn 200+ calories an hour.
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Scientists say they have found the source of HIV . They traced HIV-1, the virus that has caused most of the AIDS epidemic, to a related virus carried by an African chimpanzee subspecies.
The source of HIV has been identified down to African chimpanzees.
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Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., calls the case symptomatic of the casual attitude with which the Clinton administration views issues of national security.
Tim Hutchinson implies that the Clintons do not take national security serious enough.
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At war's end, he arranged to contribute some of his panels as a sort of victory monument to the nation--the gift that eventually became the glorious circular water lily chapel at the Orangerie in Paris.
The panels were destroyed in the war.
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The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.
Diana wrote love letters to James Hewitt.
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The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives.
There are Asian-Americans in Scarsdale.
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The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago.
Online Times includes videos in their coverages.
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The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.
Housewares manufacturers were hesitant to push teakettles at first.
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As Bill Clinton ratchets up the pressure on Baghdad, Saddam will inevitably bellow Nasserite defiance.
There is no pressure being put on Baghdad.
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Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.
One magazine is full of praise while the other believes there are serious problems.
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On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley.
The Late Edition broadcasts at 11pm on saturdays.
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Felicia's Journey takes place behind the eyes of its central a young Irish girl, Felicia, who crosses the sea to England in a hopeful quest to find the father of her unborn child; and the fat, middle-aged catering manager, Hiditch, who takes a paternal interest in the lass when it becomes clear that her young man has ...
Hiditch and Felicia form a life-long bond.
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One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.
Cybill Shepherd seems to have a great relationship with her former fiance.
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(Click for more on the U.S. role in that restriction.)
this is no info on the role of the U.S. in that restriction.
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He says this will make our system the best.
This will make our system the best is what he says.
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