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What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about the new, there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.
numerous people seem to think the old is more applicable than the new.
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Is money money similarly presages Bob Dole on the 1996 campaign stump reminding people, It's your money!
Bob Dole was involved in a campaign in 1996.
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It would be nice to say that we were rich because we were good, but the randomness of the market and the casual ethics of the hidden hand allow no such theocratic conclusion.
I would be nice to say that we were poor because we were bad.
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Framed this way, the story is dying.
The story is dying because of the way it is framed.
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Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit.
Clinton has a family.
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3) Fragmentary intelligence suggests that China wanted to channel money to Clinton's campaign.
China would have benefited from a Clinton presidency.
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But lately he has taken to cruising college campuses in his Miata, looking for recruits.
A man drives his Miata.
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Can you believe this?
We definitely know this is true.
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Croatia analysts surmise that HDZ is keeping Tudjman alive as a campaign strategy.
Tudjman has not died yet.
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The milk proponents offer a variety of responses as to why osteoporosis is far less common in the nonmilk-drinking world.
Osteoporosis has a relation to bone disease.
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Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas.
The reporters are only interested in reporting facts as opposed to opinions.
neutral
God how I love this country.
He loves this country more than any other.
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(Yes, if it uses speed attacks rather than electrical ones.)
Other kinds of attacks also exist in Pokemon.
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Dll stands for dynamic-link library, and .dll files are small chunks of computer code that are intended to be shared by more than one application.
Dynamic-link library can only be used by one application at a time.
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As in their Ed Wood (1994) and The People vs.
Ed Wood was released in 1994.
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Of course they have delighted voters by goosing popular social programs with extra millions.
They have given large sums of money to social programs.
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Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...
Tim and the author are negligent and deserve to be in the situation they are in.
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In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch.
Daphne Merkin reviewed the book Kaaterskill Falls.
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Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!
my wife is totally fine with me standing my ground.
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Or Morris could have contacted Dorothy Healey, who was the chair of the Southern California Communist Party during the '40s.
Dorothy Healey has never associated with a communist party.
contradiction
Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.
There is a possibility that shops will be open at some times.
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It's almost barbaric in a certain way.
Something comes across as uncivilized.
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Another answer is to promote civic virtue.
There are no answers proposed.
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and she was talking gibberish.
She was speaking in a clear voice.
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To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.
The reporters are not persistant.
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Will Tina tame these tough guys?
There are some tough guys.
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) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost.
Lafferty feels as though he lost.
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Physicians will unionize against managed care.
Physicians will take action to oppose managed care.
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The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story.
Bradley refused to comment on the story.
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Right now there is nothing approaching an international regime for keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
The author thinks that countries could band together to fight terrorism.
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Your wanderings on the Web leave more footprints than you may realize.
Your wanderings on the Web leave no footprints at all.
contradiction
Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged.
This author is commenting on behaviors of women.
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e) Some or all of the above.
This is one of the answers on a college entrance exam.
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These lawyers might make the case that even tobacco companies have rights, and that the public interest actually was served by getting these companies a better bargain.
The lawyers are of Chinese descent.
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What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.
The book was not at all technical.
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As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink.
I may be a college student, but I am very unfamiliar with the latest lingo.
contradiction
The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray.
The site will be kept up with all content still availible.
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Or, instead, should we fight tooth and nail to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor?
The Earned Income Tax Credit helps the working poor.
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All this is called devolution, to rhyme with evolution (and not to rhyme with revolution).
we initially wanted to rhyme the word with revolution, but changed our minds.
neutral
American soldiers gave her a drink and poured water over her.
She was completely dry the whole time.
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is for the peacekeeping mission to extend its mandate beyond the deadline by which U.S. forces are supposed to pull out.
There has been no mandate from the peacekeeping mission.
contradiction
It is not overarching moral or political meaning that Didion has suddenly discovered.
Didion was not suddenly discovered.
contradiction
Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45).
Monica Lewinsky is not a person.
contradiction
The RPH who must legislate or govern (Gingrich, Kasich, Bush) is quieter about his principles--probably because he actually has to live by them.
The RPH is more open about his principles, despite the fact he is frequently exposed as a hypocrite.
contradiction
They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.
William Ginsburg recently got diagnosed with cancer.
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, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.
The referenced crime would be argued in local court.
contradiction
This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
The quote lines up with the thinking of Justice Lewis Powell's views on affirmative action.
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But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook.
No conservatives are honest.
contradiction
The split seemed to come in 1969, when Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and became the darling of the American left's radical chic set.
Bond proposed radical legislation after election.
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President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.
There were many goals scored in the World Cup Final.
contradiction
But there's more about Colorado you might not know.
You know everything about Colorado.
contradiction
This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal.
Everything is fair and legal during an election.
contradiction
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
Allergies do not fully inhibit reproduction.
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It's a major omission, then, that we never see those schools or the kids' interaction with their stable, well-to-do Beverly Hills counterparts.
we see the children themselves twice a week.
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First Build the prototype.
You want to build the prototype as the last step.
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In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner.
Some female students were insulted by the generalization.
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The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need.
The author finds the sign nice to look at.
contradiction
Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.
Winnie-the-Pooh is Canadian.
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For example, no reasonable person would expect the United States to invade or bomb Turkey to stop genocide against the Kurds.
The United States will bomb Turkey to stop genocide.
neutral
People will argue about where to draw the line.
The arguments usually happen in church.
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Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).
Joss never knew of Dr. Arroway.
contradiction
American soldiers gave her a drink and poured water over her.
The soldiers used the same water that was in the drink to pour over her.
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All praise is reserved for the production The staging is infinitely inventive, says New York 's John Simon.
New York 's John Simon has only negative things to say about the production and staging.
contradiction
But laws pertaining to child-rearing are surprisingly marriage-neutral.
The laws pertaining to raising a kid don't favor those in a marriage over those who are unmarried.
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Museum of Jewish A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York City).
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is in New York City.
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What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable.
She doesn't have to deal with her own approach to intimacy right now because there are no men in her life.
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The machines, in comparison, seem fuzzy.
The machines can't be compared to anything.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Young and Jackson sided with Lewis.
contradiction
The territory's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5 percent or 6 percent in 1997 and 1998, up from 4.7 percent in 1996.
GDP growth will shrink in 1997 and 1998 as the territory braces for a massive recession.
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Instead they're busy scrounging for funds to spread good care more widely.
They're struggling to get funding.
neutral
It depends on how you score it.
Something gets scored.
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Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues.
This is Monica's 3rd move this year.
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These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing.
The foreign aid allowed for the improvements to be made quickly.
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As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the wreckage of a large part of economic theory.)
Sir John Hicks taught his economic principles to many people.
neutral
I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology.
It is morally repugnant to call any decline in mortality as small or insignificant.
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
We have always been a moral majority.
contradiction
You don't need to play Mike Wallace and demolish Leuchter on camera.
Mike Wallace loves to sing Christmas songs.
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When you like somebody, you tend to trust him.
There is no connection between liking somebody and trusting them.
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Then I jump in with a higher bid at the end, hoping that at least some of those competitors are away from their computers and unable to respond.
One one places a bid in an auction, they are guaranteed to get the product.
contradiction
Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.
Some people think that a decrease in the cost of goods helped cause the Great Depression.
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My publishers will kill me if I don't mention my own biography of D.P.
My biography of D.P. has been praised by some of his close family members.
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As a result, sentences are short and clear, often brilliantly compressed.
The text had been changed from longer sentences.
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Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.
Advertisers only care about their ads.
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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?
When they couldn't get 12 people for the jury his friend was called back.
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He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.
Death unstoppably takes over the young man's body after being hit by multiple cars in the movie.
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Annan is tough without being vicious.
Annan is tough.
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Critics scoff at high-tech guru Esther Dyson's claims that the Internet will expand democracy, build communities, and liberate workers.
Esther Dyson is a far left liberal.
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If partial-birth abortion is too gruesome to allow, however, it is hard to see how other late abortions, especially D and Es, are any different.
partial-birth abortion seems to be too sickening to allow.
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Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs.
HMOs have quite a frightening tale about them.
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For most American companies today, success depends on selling more of your product next year than you did this year.
American companies tend to outsource their products.
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That's what you do.
You don't do anything.
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The paper declared, A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
The paper was trying to promote holiday spirit by writing about how just a smile can make people happy.
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At least, Chatterbox thinks that's what Johnsen said ...
Johnsen actually said almost the complete opposite of what they think he said.
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The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor.
Kennedy has never won a case as a prosecutor.
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Tina and the Weinsteins all have highbrow pretensions but feel no shame in embracing pop culture.
Tina and the Weinsteins don't have lowbrow pretensions.
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Time 's culture-heavy lineup includes Tiger Woods, Rosie O'Donnell, Babyface Edmonds, Don Imus, Trent Reznor, and Dilbert (of the comic strip).
Time's culture-heavy lineup will feature more than three people.
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Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.
Levy's series of father-son talks have been documented.
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These rapacious European phone monopolies have given birth to independent call-back services.
There are no European phone monopolies.
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They celebrate the U.S. women's comparative innocence.
The innocence of the women in the US were given attention.
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As noted previously, the Shopping Avenger is but one superhero, and he issues abject apologies to all those who did not receive personal responses.
The Shopping Avenger is a superhero.
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