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They do not clearly condemn as racist the actions, sometimes violent, that white ethnics in Chicago resorted to in the 1960s to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
The white ethnics tried to stop blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
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The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.
Semantics and orthography are taught in schools.
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Dr. Arthur Caplan, the only ethicist at the hearing who betrayed any awareness of the new issues, focused instead on the morality of trade-offs.
Dr. Arthur Caplan is an ethicist very focused on the morality of trade-offs.
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We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste.
Many of the emails we received ask about the release of our new product line.
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A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.
There is a treaty for the purposes of trying to curb the effects of global warming.
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Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock
Journalists killed rock music.
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Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a
The hypochodriack is a modern invention.
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Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.
imagine the outcome if Microsoft had the browser market in their pockets.
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on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued.
American films have never been sold overseas.
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And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon).
The majority of Clinton's support came from working class citizens.
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Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.
The Taliban are waging a religious war against the warlords who destroyed Afghanistan.
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The baby gets new toys every day, because used toys are immediately discarded.
The used toys are cleaned and given back to the baby the next day.
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This is the mutual contempt, hinted at but not developed in this valuable book, that haunts us today.
This book is a important published work.
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This Johnny was just a wig and a smear of lipstick on a clenched fist, but he made Seeor Wences that rarest of performers, a genuinely funny ventriloquist.
Seeor Wences was a funny ventriloquist.
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Newsweek lambastes the president for diplomatic errors and missed opportunities: Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they u...
Newsweek has an online platform for viewing their articles.
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He is, as one writer put it, the efficient ethnic cleanser.
No one committed ethnic cleansing.
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It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.
Coppola has never made a gangster movie.
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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 don't like privatization.
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Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey.
Howard Davies did not direct the show.
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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 is finished bothering Washington offices.
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But it is not a transitional problem.
This kind of problem comes up every now and then.
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It is hard to understand how Grisham pulls this off.
I understand and believe that Grisham will pull it off.
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In fact, although all other nominees are welcome, Slate 's software-development team--through a simple iterative program--has already cast 1.8 million votes for Bill Gates.
Bill Gates has had 1.8 million votes cast for him so far.
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But I'm not kidding, it's time for her to go.
I'm only joking when I suggest that she should leave.
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Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.
Sloth is one of the four listed characteristics.
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McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.
McCartney knew he was viewed as an empty tunesmith.
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I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap.
I was feeling very disappointed.
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To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great!
The author has a trick to get back into a discussion.
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The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign.
Starting his campaign incredibly late, Bush refused to comment.
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The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need.
The author considers the sign to be informative.
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But when Indonesians started running from their banks a few months ago, what they wanted was dollars--and neither the Indonesian government nor the IMF can give them enough of what they want.
The Indonesian government cannot satisfy the desires of their people.
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
People are constantly talking about adding a tollbooth to this specific bridge.
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The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.
Jess Gupta is a female senior in high school.
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Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few.
Bennett was justified in his fear of the scarcity.
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The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile, it said.
Russia has had some success in avoiding catastrophes in the past.
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We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.
no one has any clue what the Marshall Plan even is.
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We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions.
We're likely to also come to an agreement about the exceptions in due course.
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Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.
Stanley Tucci played the part of Walter Winchell on television.
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And can anybody remember Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis-playing physician?
Renee Richards is skilled in both sports and medicine.
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Consider just the Pell Grants for students who have already defaulted on past That one mistake cost $210 million.
Some students receive grants.
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In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?
Would it have been a good idea to stop all private law practice?
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But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web.
Experts think it is safer to download from a disk.
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But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close.
He is talking about lawyers functioning in the United States in 2018.
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He hasn't much changed America.
America is incapable of being changed.
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In the frame game, nuance is almost always a loser.
Nuance will frequently cause you to lose when playing the frame game.
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Given his track record as the District's mayor, you might want to sell your stock in that company.
I have 100 shares of stock in the company.
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Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.
Due to political differences, the Dayton Accords were never passed.
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By June, Gerth was writing, with a tinge of desperation, that the Pentagon did not find grave damage but did conclude that the United States national security had been harmed.
The US national security was not affected in this matter.
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Every time he turns up on the scene--and even when (as in the case of Kathleen Willey) he doesn't--people What's he doing here?
Without fail, he always appears on scene.
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A capitalist, of whom there are one or two among us, I hear tell, might bear this in mind when targeting malt liquor, fast food, and sneaker commercials.
Most capitalist think the same way.
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As American multinationals ship their production overseas, the likelihood of getting business to support an import tariff (which would now tax their own imports) becomes equally small.
Multinational businesses are not likely eager to have their goods taxed at the border.
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Disk compression and networking into Windows.
Windows can perform tasks related to disk compression and networking.
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Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures.
Humans do as such in order to better understand the world around them.
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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.
the Guggenheim fellowship has been awarded for the last 30 years.
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Wal-Mart still won't stock adult videos, although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do.
Wal-Mart restocks it's adult videos regularly.
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And U.K. giant British Telecom purchased MCI.
British Telecom ended up selling MCI after six months of terrible profits.
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As surrogate mothers have proved, knowing that you've given no genes to an infant needn't stop the bonding process.
Adoptive mothers bond just as strongly with infants as surrogate mothers.
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Instead she runs through all the euphemisms for oral sex and then the video cuts to XXX action with gratuitous commentary.
oral sex isn't considered taboo in many parts of the world.
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One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S.
Untitled V was painted in 1982.
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Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
The statement is being said of Andy Warhol.
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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 isn't seen as horrible.
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He recently purchased 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that is the site of Camp Nor'Wester, a venerated children's summer retreat.
Camp Nor'Wester is located on the largest of the San Juan Islands.
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The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd.
Robert Smithson and Donald Judd were not chosen.
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If being smart is no guarantee of being right, having been right is not necessarily an indicator that someone is smart.
You must be smart to be right.
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At the hang gliding site, click Links ...
The hang gliding site has many attractive features.
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In his frantic manipulating to get hold of Linda's tapes of Monica, he phoned me in New York and remembers it as
The author had no strong inclination for getting a hold of the tapes of Monica.
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She is hauled away, presumably to be killed.
She never received a fair trial or chance to explain her innocence.
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But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.
The penalty is fine of $30.
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A year ago, when News Quiz debuted, Slate was free.
Slate has always had a subscription fee.
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Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.
Pan-Arabism failed in 1967 due to a schism in the faith.
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Instead they're busy scrounging for funds to spread good care more widely.
They are selfish.
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You could be truthful and say your own version of I was overcome by curiosity about this much talked about doc, and now I know his work is as good as yours.
The doctor's work and your work are both good.
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Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle.
Lockheed is a custodial company specializing in contracting janitors.
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To address those issues the public--represented by the casual museum visitor--needed an understanding of the lives and practices of the gay community, so long hidden from view.
The gay community has never been hidden from the mainstream view.
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Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ...
Willey practices meditation to calm himself.
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The majority of those responding felt that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, and the APA accordingly removed it from the DSM 's next published edition.
There was only a minority with this view.
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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 can coexist with the feminist notion that the personal is political.
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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 will not make any case as there is no case to be made.
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Gay liberation, like feminism, is central to the whole individualist ethos of the last two decades.
The author argues that these concepts have been important over the last century.
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(Click to learn more about the surprising Islamic origins of this argument and what Ludwig Wittgenstein had to say about it.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein didn't say a single thing about it.
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Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes.
There are no new features, only old features.
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Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee.
Al Gore was born in Tennessee and then moved to Kentucky.
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It's not what management theorist Tom Peters sees as the company of the future, a floating network/crap game.
Peters' visions are something completely different.
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
He is dancing.
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Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.
Clinton did something immoral.
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I am ready to redeem him!
They will never consider redeeming him.
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In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality.
Steven Landsburg did not participate in "In Take This Simple Test".
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Instead of an invisible hand pushing the economy toward full employment in some unspecified long run, we have the visible hand of the Fed pushing us toward its estimate of the noninflationary unemployment rate over the course of two or three years.
The Fed is taking action regarding its perception of the noninflationary unemployment rate.
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Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass ...
another rule is proper understanding of traffic laws.
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William Jefferson Clinton ranks on the list.
Bill Clinton is famous for not having a middle name.
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In this context, it's hard to know what makes a kaffeeklatsch odd.
Known for their crunchy exterior, kaffeeklatsch are a relatively new snack.
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(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)
Clinton's popularity has increased a lot.
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He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.
He was unsuccessful in getting the Senate to approve the bill.
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The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.
Prohibition laws have relaxes in the U.S.
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Some people want a Caddy and others want a Chevy, he shrugs.
More people want Caddy than Chevy.
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Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.
The intubation was in an attempt to resuscitate the patient.
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He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.
India does not have a lobby in Washington.
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Ambrose--in the very next sentence!
Ambrose appeared in the sentence prior.
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As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission.
Chatterbox pointed out that movie tickets are very expensive and could draw many people into seeing a movie.
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TV demos capture neither the exhilaration nor the fear, conveying instead the smug fatuity of some second-unit director who believes social change is for saps; DGA cards are for winners.
The second-unit director later went on to make commercials.
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