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He's capable of much more than he usually gives.
He's completely incompetent.
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The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter.
I despise Holly Hunter.
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The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory.
The students didn't care about protesting or advocating for oppressed people.
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But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?
They are walking and looking at the shop windows.
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It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism.
Journalism is the only profession where doing something you believe in can harm your career.
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We wonder if they, too, would feel uncomfortable with our differences made so plainly apparent.
There are no differences between the author and the other people.
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If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Wood...
There are a lot of ways to learn about Kwanzaa.
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For those who look into the future and are concerned, there are some fundamental What can be done?
what can we go about others who peer into the future with unease?
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Or maybe only 30 are true, in which case three should be confirmed overwhelmingly.
Thirty are false, and three should be confirmed.
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So much for the cruel stereotype of the pea-brained dinosaur.
A Pea-brained dinosaur is often used to describe someone who does something dumb.
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Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.
Barr wants to extend his reach to national levels.
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Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does dis...
Satinover's book uses data obtained from several studies conducted at Princeton University.
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And in 1976 Beatty resisted pleas to make a late primary challenge to Jimmy Carter.
It was hard for Beatty to resist the pleas to make a primary challenge.
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Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton)...
Newsweek reported on the Clinton's scandals.
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So we all have benefited indirectly.
Directly and indirectly, we have gained something.
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This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.
The bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series was disputed by a senior mathematician at a prestigious university.
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A self-appraisal (and remember, the entire purpose of a reference group is to serve as a yardstick for self-appraisal) would entail evaluating the richness of relationships and the satisfactions of accomplishments, rather than the cataloging of possessions.
Interpersonal relationships and accomplishments are more important than material goods.
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Of course, said Bork, who appears as a regular cast member in those situation comedies that pass as talk shows every night, vigorously extolling the virtues and honesty of Judge Starr.
Bork is a regular cast member in a so-called talk show who aggressively praised Judge Starr.
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I fear that a certain software billionaire may be a nut job.
The demeanor of the software billionaire is always cool, collected, and rational.
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Instead, they looked the other way.
Someone got away with a crime.
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Rubin himself probably does not care about such back scratching, but it is a lesson that heir-apparent Summers, an eager press hound, has surely absorbed.
Summers has surely absorbed the lesson.
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I sometimes found myself wishing he would let the picture catch its breath, that the performers would stop coming at me in stroboscopic flashes.
The reviewer felt sick from the flashing lights.
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(But let's not bring up my cousins.)
My cousins are from the south.
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In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.
Cole was unwilling to identify any components that he thought were associated with Internet Explorer.
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
It doesn't have any tainted bias or corruption.
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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House impeachment leader Rep.
Trent Lott is from Texas.
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Chief among Will China preserve the rule of law and free speech, which are essential for business prosperity?
No one has ever questioned whether China would preserve the rule of law and free speech.
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In a culture where Xena and Hercules have hit TV shows, it's a lot more fun imagining that you are a valiant warrior doing business-as-battle than it is to admit that you're a pudgy functionary whose most daring deed is to draft a boldly worded memo.
You're a slim cowboy who regularly engages in amazingly brave and dangerous actions.
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Now, to commemorate our first anniversary, in an act of incredible corporate generosity that is every bit as good as providing health insurance (I'm sure that Mr. Gates will make this sort of thing more available should Microsoft prove profitable), Slate
The employees at the company are unionized.
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If the first lady's job description no longer includes being first, then let's lobby to create a new post, the last lady--or the latest lady.
Many are looking to change the title of the first lady.
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In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.
Chinese corporations have put money into Dragon Air.
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This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!
Bootstrap arguments don't always work.
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Degas, according to Daniel Halevy, carried his camera as proudly as a child carrying a rifle.
Daniel knew Degas loved his camera.
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Newsweek 's cover story hails the success of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble Telescope was on the cover of Newsweek.
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Because Accidents Happen , on Tuesday and Wednesday (8-10 p.m.) Using the fig leaf of studying survival engineering and safety pointers, PBS gives us fires, crashes, and sinking ships.
The TV show will explain to us what not to do in certain situations.
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Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.
Getting high is one way you can celebrate getting your license.
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The Unjust Clinton's moral theory, point by point, as expressed in his testimony.
Church leaders have decried Clinton's testimony as sign of America's moral decline.
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They seem to think that junk food qualifies as their half of the groceries.
They purchased potato chips, cookies and candy bars while at the store.
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I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.
Monica doesn't care if the tabloids pester her.
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High Crimes is supposed to show that Clinton's enemies have a strong legal case against him.
High Crimes showcases the legal arguments against Clinton.
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She is frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she suspects of plotting to murder her.
She is a mother, having given birth to more than one child.
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Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants.
Lewinsky sent the president letters expressing her attraction to him.
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--Associated Press story of Wednesday, Oct. 27, describing the efforts of Clinton aide Harold Ickes on behalf of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s campaign for Congress.
Member's of Clinton's campaign have never acted upon the congressional race by Jesse Jackson Jr.
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The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).
People getting caught doesn't divert others from the act.
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People will argue about where to draw the line.
People get into arguments on where the line stands.
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The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in eli...
Conley thinks that there are improvements that can be made by male professors.
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I'd far rather read those sexy economics columns by Paul Krugman.
Paul Krugman is knowledgeable on economics.
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Chernow attributes this attitude to Rockefeller's uncommon respect for the dollar.
Rockefeller's success is due to his respect for the dollar.
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The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present.
The Justice Department wished to determine whether immunity was offered to Lewinsky without her lawyers.
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The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts.
The antitrust trial judge found in favor of Microsoft's practices.
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But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.
Some of the links are made via DNA matches.
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I have never seen a trial before where you had factual disputes where you didn't have witnesses where you could watch their demeanor on the stand, listen to them, judge one witness vs. another witness (DeWine).
The defense was pressing for the case to be settled prior to the jury's judgment.
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Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.
This person is a marketer.
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suic...
Rothko had second thoughts about committing suicide.
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I'd just like to point out, in case you were planning a satirical musical comedy about the crisis in question, something you can do to a song from West Side Story : Korea, I've just met a place called Korea!
A Greek tragedy is being made to celebrate the crisis having been resolved.
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We should lead by example and suasion.
Leading by example is shown to be one of the best methods for teaching.
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The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.
Richard LaGravenese has expanded the definition of the term "slice of life.
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This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.
The author believes the top thing of the week is boring.
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Whereas fashion photography--in the '50s as always--aimed to arouse active lust for new goods, the clothes in '50s movies were so thoroughly surreal as to look quite unfit for normal wear, even if they were waitresses' uniforms or girl-next-door dresses.
Both fashion photography and movies existed in the '50s.
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Of course, your mileage may vary depending on how many users are connected to your T1 line, how busy the Internet or
It's predicated on the number of users that are connected to the T1 line.
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You can be the birthplace of Heidegger, Hegel, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Brecht, and Martin Luther, but you start one little world war ...
The Germans grow up with an academic childhood.
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Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.
Prudie thought that the padding needed to be twice as thick.
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In a way, it's Bradley's fault.
Bradley is to blame.
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No offense meant.
Someone intentionally sais something hurtful.
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If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean is a seasonal retailer.
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It forces us to justify doing otherwise.
We are forced to justify doing otherwise.
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complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.
They felt as such given the sheer amont of litter polluting the city.
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For instance, as the mobility of capital reduces the power of unions, the chance for including labor rights in the world trade treaty known as GATT--the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs--grows remote.
The labor rights are being fought for coal miners.
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In general, arts and cultural articles are posted early in the week, and newsier and political stuff is posted Thursday and Friday.
The reason for this publication schedule is that research shows readers are more open to contentious news given the looming weekend.
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Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government.
Ruling socialists were forced to hand power over to a caretaking government due to street protests over slipping wages and shortages.
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We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave.
We must ignore haters.
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Unlike the Europeanists, the Liberal Humanitarians have turned hawk for moral reasons.
Liberal Humanitarians have nothing in common with Europeanists.
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
Spark is an intellectual
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The original Seattleites--the NW Indians--have become so Californian they're Nevadans.
The NW Indians enjoy watching soccer.
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Capital Legislator Want More Facts on Daylight Savings Time from Mexico's News . A close second is Why Farm Sheep at All?
Mexico's news includes information about daylight savings time.
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The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other.
The media's diligence gets to the truth.
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Politicians get away with advertising bogus family bliss
Most of the advertising shown is false about politicians and a perfect family life.
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Will Tina tame these tough guys?
There are no tough guys at all.
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The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.
John F. Kennedy Jr. had broken up with Daryl Hannah in the past.
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Pataki made this explicit at the bill's Albany signing History teaches us that the Great Hunger was not the result of a massive Irish crop failure, but rather a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.
There is debate as to the primary cause of the Great Hunger.
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It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.
The movie was not considered pretentious.
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Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid.
Geoff Ward has facial hair.
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What Murray likes about the idea is that it would finally discharge society's obligation to members of the underclass.
Murray doesn't like anything about the idea.
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But the interesting question is about sites sharing data.
The author is concerned about the security issues involved in the data sharing.
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If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content.
No one believes King should be happy.
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On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica.
The chair in which Lincoln sat when he was shot has been destroyed.
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Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects.
Amy Cortese's opinion of the book is shared by many others.
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Even when Forrest Sawyer is sitting in, it's still World News Tonight With Peter Jennings . Just because Johnny goes on vacation, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson doesn't suddenly become The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . The task of a guest host is delicate.
World News Tonight is hosted by Peter Jennings.
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At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.
Finkelstein was justified in mocking Elie Wiesel for her remarks.
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But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.
The press will never discuss anything related to business leaders.
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Don't take my word for it.
Find more information.
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Persistent welfare cases don't get jobs because of mental illness, substance abuse, transportation obstacles, child-care difficulties, and simple lack of interest.
There are many reasons welfare cases don't obtain work.
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Here, again, was a world they could understand.
They could make sense out of this world.
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From an erratic performance on the David Letterman show to a violent confrontation with a boyfriend to the latest, her odd behavior at the Cannes Film Festival.
She seemed very composed on the David Letterman show.
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You have definitely identified a problem for the '90s.
Not a single problem existed in the otherwise idyllic 1990s.
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We've come a long way together from Strom Thurmond's ass (which, while not free, is surprisingly affordable), and if online technology were not in its infancy, right about now I'd be buying you all a round of free-range rug shampoo.
We really haven't come anywhere since the Strom Thurmond posterior incident.
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If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word cure.
Sullivan does not believe his life will be extended.
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Keyes : Join me in a prayer to Our Creator.
Keyes is a Catholic.
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For state-of-the-art articles on piercing, see Flesh Canvas.
For years now, Flesh Canvas had stopped publishing piercing articles.
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We're talking about president of the United States.
They are talking about the United States president.
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