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Nearly 30 homosexuals are featured in prime time, but few shows are sophisticated enough to script love lives for their homocharacters.
Homosexuality is banned from broadcast.
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The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...
The films employed skilled experts.
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But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter.
The author will not be writing future letters.
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But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage.
Gay marriage was addressed by Birch.
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Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK.
What he said while not under oath was criminal.
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Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations.
Medical fake operations get reported on by Time.
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Go forth and cover culture and the arts.
The order came directly from the Editor-in-Chief of a local paper.
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Much of this vulnerability may eventually be neutralized by encryption and other tricks.
Everything is completely secure, there is no vulnerability.
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In the Times of London Monday, Clarke was quoted as saying, There is no truth whatsoever in the allegations that the Sunday Mirror are making against me, and they are very hurtful.
Clark has gone on record stating the claims hold no weight and are far from the truth.
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And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.
The president went to Africa with Jesse Jackson.
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Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last.
This edition of Diaries of Dawn Powell was released in 1995.
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In 1995, Willey took revenge on a lover named Shaun Docking by faking a pregnancy and miscarriage and asking Steele to lie about it.
Shaun Docking had known Willey for nearly five years.
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If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs.
The programs on CNN are boring.
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Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97.
Karenna worked for Slate in order to build her resume and get her dream job.
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To News Quiz participants, investigation is not theological (angels?)
Investigations often involve angels.
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So all the money from the sales of the manufacturing operations, $3 billion, is going to a share buyback program, which is to say that instead of being used to create new wealth, it will simply be redistributed from the company to investors.
The money is being redistributed to the workers, not the wealthy.
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Also, there is no Fifth Amendment right against incriminating others.
It's illegal to incriminate someone else in a crime according to the Fifth Amendment.
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And then there's everyone else in the city.
People live in the city.
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Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention.
Free markets are inefficient compared to markets with government intervention.
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Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.
Obstructing good ideas could affect if you can win.
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In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.
It would be good for the people of the world to watch the unpublished films of a dictatorial leader.
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The piece notes that the 10-year survival rate for heart transplants is an astonishing 60 percent, orders of magnitude higher than it was in the '70s.
Advancements in medical care have greatly improved survival rates for heart transplant recipients in the last few decades.
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As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him.
Noyce was the leader before Moore.
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The Justice Department reportedly is investigating whether the Democratic National Committee funded Ron Carey's campaign in exchange for Teamster funding of the Clinton campaign . Republicans are demanding a special prosecutor and promising congressional investigations.
Ron Carey's campaign is being highly evaluated.
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He has made his pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply argument in sealed court papers and also has publicly denied believing anything so foolish, Brill points out.
All papers filed with the court are available to be viewed by the public.
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(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.)
The activity only occurs during the summer.
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Graves hid out in the deep woods.
It would be easy to track down Graves' current location without any assistance.
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To News Quiz participants, investigation is not theological (angels?)
Theology is an investigative process.
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They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him.
They don't understand that a Gore win is still very possible, and Bush won't back down from this fight.
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Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.
Winnie-the-Pooh is an American.
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Right now, I'd settle for a creative genius who could teach us how to think about the population problem.
There is a population issue that they would like help with.
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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.
Adam Michnik was known to be an important part of the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.
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By these criteria Kinsey fares well.
Kinsey meets the requirements.
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That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.
Barkin was not only powerful, but well known in the area.
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This was a note K used to strike a lot in the 1980s, and he's glad he doesn't have to strike it anymore.
K feels the need to continue striking the same note today.
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An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top.
The survey only collected information on fifty communities.
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The verdict?
There is no trial.
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The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The International Monetary Fund isn't considered an important part of the world financial order.
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A boxer cannot fight with a heart condition or dementia.
Boxers are more likely to suffer from dementia.
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The news that I am laying waste to an entire generation of men exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard.
I feel drawn to protect this generation of men.
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Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it.
The purchaser got the rag for free.
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As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.
Intel's advertising efforts in the early 90's were lauded by ad executives and marketing strategists.
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The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster.
If there is a crash, a large economic disaster is guaranteed.
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He should mind his own lesson.
The lessons are boring piano lessons.
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The unit immediately below us has been rented out as a live/work space to a couple with a video business.
The people living in the space below us run a video business out of their unit.
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Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.
Clinton was trying to avoid looking corrupt.
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My wife went to Florida with her mother once.
His wife has not been with her mother in Florida since then.
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He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves.
He had been able to get some Iranian-made replacement valves.
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The conceit is that Benigni tries to keep the 5-year-old from realizing what's going on by pretending that the whole thing is a game and that if the boy gets through it without crying or complaining he wins a tank.
Should the child whine or weep, they'll win a prize.
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The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance.
the publication gave up on trying to find truth among Clinton's denials.
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Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society ( office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
The normative couple includes one man and one woman.
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Civility is not one of the major virtues.
There are virtues other than civility.
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The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
Robert Mapplethorpe is unorthodox.
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Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.
There is no chance that shops will be open on the weekend.
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The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
Bellow lived only in Paris.
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Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
you cannot patent hereditary blueprints.
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But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.
The earth will always be safe for future inhabitants.
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I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also.
The speaker describes Brave New World as a romance.
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Work is work, whether it is done inside the home or outside the home, Hutchison argues.
Hutchinson sees the value of housework.
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They end up on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired . They foreshadow the world in which we're all either symbolic analysts or hamburger flippers.
Vanity Fair and Wired put people on the cover of their magazines.
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Exploiting the newly dead sounds ghoulish, but the medical establishment rationalizes the practice--at least in private--by saying that it's better than letting interns fumble on live patients.
The medical establishment is firmly against using cadavers to learn medicine.
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Yes, said Emanuel after the HRC speech.
Emanuel spoke after the HRC speech.
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By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman.
The Baldwins are known for their focus on their work and lack of social activities.
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The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.
The WP consulted with a lawyer before making its decision.
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The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off.
The advertising campaign is to blame for the failure.
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Spot enforcement, well-publicized with blue flashing lights, is what maintains speed limits on the highway.
The public hates the spot enforcement.
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Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.
Microsoft has 350,000 employees.
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In 1958, 4 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages.
The idea that a person could marry someone from another race was a concept that at least some people were aware of in 1958.
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He has thought it through, spelled it out, and told you who's asking it and why.
He was vague in his details.
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Jerry Falwell apologized for saying the Antichrist must be Jewish . At a prayer breakfast, he said, I apologize to my Jewish friends here and around the world and I apologize to the Christians here for having created any kind of rift.
Jerry Falwell is an Atheist.
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Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist.
Clinton still feels deeply ashamed over the Lewinsky affair.
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In 1897 he was in Moscow, staying at the Great Moscow Hotel, when he began to cough blood profusely.
He was in the Great Moscow Hotel in 1897.
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After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession.
The book is exciting but ultimately has no real value.
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I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles.
Steven Pinker is not a great popularizer.
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Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company.
The book is from an affiliated publishing company.
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There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.
The author argues that the description is correctly applied to the atrocities committed in the Holocaust.
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Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games.
The trolley lines were also appreciated by their respective cities' councils and mayors.
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Rediscovering Arendt's public-private split wouldn't necessarily entail abandoning the feminist notion that the personal is political.
Arendt's public-private split is very famous.
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All this is called devolution, to rhyme with evolution (and not to rhyme with revolution).
we wanted the definitions to rhyme properly.
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Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.
The policy has been around for over a decade.
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Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.
Strikes may cause short term losses.
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And, oh, to know what a frolic is!
The writer enjoys frolicking around with their spouse.
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He's just finished Isaac's Storm, a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and reads Robert Parker's detective-for-hire stories.
Isaac's Storm is a fictional book.
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In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.
The conversation is taking too long.
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With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.
Giuliani is a massive Winnie-the-Pooh fan.
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A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.
the professor thinks William Shakespeare may have had a large beard.
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Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, who made the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story , say Lana was adamant that she wasn't there.
Lana's testimony is reliable and can be trusted.
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When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.
Joel Klein doesn't have access to input from any experts in economy.
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The military is (theoretically) a nonpolitical institution, but as soon as the operation went south, the military abandoned its nonpolitical faaade to protect itself.
The military often protects itself by behaving in a political manner.
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Buying a new tie would be fun, not an obsessive, central, tail-wagging-the-dog-of-life activity.
I am excited to buy a new tie as it is an enjoyable experience.
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Didn't anyone remind them that Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan?
Dole has plans to help pay for his tax cuts.
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The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation.
The cover story did have a few positive things to say about the Federal Reserve, though.
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They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.
There will be alcoholic beverages and food served at the party.
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in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.
Compson made his story in the hopes of bringing blacks and whites together.
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No More Teachers, No More Books ...
There are no more teachers and books.
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Podhoretz implies that Sharpton's behavior is both representative of and entirely in keeping with the character of African-Americans in general.
Sharpton is the opposite of the usual African American attributes.
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Thanks a bunch.
There could be more to do to help finish the task.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Elizabeth Drew is operating out of Washington.
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The tricky question is what are the core values that really define you and what are the fringe issues on which differences are not crucial.
Your core values that define you are honesty and loyalty.
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A Life and a World , by Jenny Uglow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Jenny Uglow is an author.
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