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Ever since Seymour Hersh's book came out detailing the raw side of Jack Kennedy and the dark side of Camelot, I've been wondering what JFK did in today's context that warrants an eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery.
Seymour Hersh's book showed the dark side of Camelot.
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Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and of the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines.
Wilson is an uneducated simpleton with no head for intellectual pursuits.
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promises one month of free e-mail support.
After the free month, you will be charges $9.99 every 30 days.
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While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic.
King didn't embrace violent tactics in the way that Malcom X did.
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Republicans should counter with logical, informative statements that point out the costs involved in litigation.
conservatives should retort with concise, instructional statements that make obvious the costs when dealing with litigation.
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It's silly that this is all such a guessing game.
The guessing game uses a normal deck of playing cards.
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Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth.
Dental technology has advanced such that dentures can almost act as real teeth.
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If U.S. cities were abandoned tomorrow, would the survival rate of our public buildings be better or worse?
It begs the question whether our public buildings would fair better if they were abandoned.
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In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.
It resembles a product made by Microsoft.
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Powell, on the other hand, had a marriage, a child, lovers (male and female), loyal friends.
Powell was not loyal.
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And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.
Congress spent way to much on internal programs last year, according to some.
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Second, Finkelstein echoes conventional historical thinking when he says Nazism's main appeal lay in Hitler's promises to restore order in post-Weimar Germany, end unemployment, and make the country an international power.
Nazism had no political appeal.
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But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.
His Republican opponents were easily beating him.
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When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?
People think people get killed all the time in the ultimate fighting.
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TP had to read yesterday's WP twice before noticing that key members of the Post editorial staff are apparently suffering the cerebral ill effects of too much exposure to brightly colored polyester.
No one questions the work and decisions of the editorial staff.
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As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.
Tony Blair wasn't allocating enough money to support the arts in the mind of Sir Peter Hall.
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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.
Medical schools buy cadavers directly from hospitals.
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Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
Prior to his current position, Klein served as a clerk at the courthouse.
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Safire suggests that Janet Reno should have asked to see the president alone, warned him unequivocally of the penetration, enlisted his aid in the investigation--or, if she thought it necessary, read him his rights.
Janet Reno asked to see the president alone.
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Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.
Everyone is happy.
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One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.
There are no problems with online polling, pollsters have the ability to email people at random.
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Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.
The women loved sitting through the movie.
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The two men have been joined forever in an intimacy deeper and more complex than that of blood or sex.
Comparatively, blood and sex resulted in more complex relationships.
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This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape.
The passage in question is fictional despite feeling realistic.
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It runs several new pictures of Lewinsky, including two that are embarrassingly revealing.
There is more than one picture of Lewinsky in existence.
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The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.
The Clinton health-care plan is a good one.
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All we've done is checked that the first two creditors divided their collective share of $125 appropriately
the creditors have committed fraud in the past.
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A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.
The marble piece had milk inside of it.
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I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).
The bride has known the groom for a long time.
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How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Depending on the width of the jail cell, it may be grounds for citing cruel and unusual punishment.
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Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.
Saddam also had troops in Afghanistan.
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In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.
considering I'm comprehending the rules correctly, this $17 billion dollar organization will give away about $170 million per quarter with much left over to spend.
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The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive.
the Red Hat manual cost like $45.
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Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.
The U.S. government is devoid of structure.
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But you could very well make the opposite argument.
If you make that argument, you might offend some people.
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But as Felix Frankfurter wrote in dissent, this distinction is silly.
Felix Frankfurter held the alternative opinions on the distinction in high regard.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The judge is waiting until November 10th to make the decision.
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His career took the shape of a palindrome.
The man's career can be considered dynamic, always changing.
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I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset.
RIAS was in operation in Berlin during the 1940s.
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This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.
Independent bookstores typically carry more educationally-focused books than the large bookselling companies.
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As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers.
A large percentage of Americans say they trust British news providers more than American ones.
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Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.
Some may disagree with Larry about the threats to liberty changing.
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Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug.
Wachtler has recently written a book.
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A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden is likely not responsible for the bombing of the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant.
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Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.
The magazines are not glowing in their praise.
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(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.)
The company made changes in order to spend more money on the instruction of its employees.
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For one thing, it's relentless--80,000 houses.
There are only a few houses, a dozen at most.
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If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
The two books are both short stories set in ancient Egypt.
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We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin.
The Week openly flaunts its biased reporting via its features.
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The Presidential Initiative to Increase Seat Belt Use Nation-wide
Seeking to increase seat belt use throughout the nation, the President implemented an initiative.
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Scholes and Merton reportedly are applauded when they appear on the floor of the options exchange, which shows that options traders are at least appreciative, if not deserving, of the rare charities that they receive.
The options traders were deathly silent as Scholes and Merton walked onto the trading floor.
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I've always said that victory is the best exit strategy.
Victory is the end-all be-all.
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Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
The day was busy.
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One of the striking things about the Microsoft trial, so far, is the extent to which the Justice Department and its lawyer, David Boies, have built their case around personal vilification of Bill Gates.
David Boies knew that tarnishing Gates' reputation was key to making charges stick.
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If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey.
There is a survey which is hyperlinked.
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Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ...
Ryan was married to a woman.
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I never spoke to my aunt, and I am not a student of the large literature by and about her.
Not a day went by where they did not speak with their aunt.
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Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.
It is necessary for competition to have compassion and efficiency with equity.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Lewis was dismissed.
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Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.
Linda Tripp's tapes has been proven 100% authentic.
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Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours!
Lucinda is a fish.
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What Isikoff couldn't pin down was whether the advance was welcome or not.
Isikoff was unclear about the level of appreciation for the advance.
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In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.
Jailbird has never displayed any emotion in regards to the murder of Vince Foster.
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This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer.
In 1892, there were many coke dealers.
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A recent article in Science claimed to rebut Noam Chomsky's theory that our capacity for language is hard-wired in a particular--and uniquely human--module of the brain.
The article in Science pointed out where it disagreed with Chomsky's theory on human's capacity for language.
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For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.
I think the Jewish people are all proud to be Jewish.
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Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.
White Dog is an overrated movie.
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All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.
They all spend less money per student than any other district.
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Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their authenticity and ends in bowdlerization.
Mintz offers an opinion on regional cuisines.
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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.
The second side of Rockefeller's personality is associated with family obligations.
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But nothing like this ever gets said.
Things like this are never talked about.
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It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.
There are more than two people involved in making this music.
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And yet it ended up foundering as a result of the inherent uncertainty of the free-market system.
The free-market is unpredictable,
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Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.
Their proposal includes an anti-tax that rewards shoppers.
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And, clearly, everyone knew the facts of the matter today.
No one had information on what's going on.
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I think neglecting to mention this shows that the Journal 's editorial page lacks intellectual integrity.
forgetting to bring this up demonstrates the Journal lacks any form of integrity.
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At worst, he is amassing credentials, fame, and wealth on the basis of others' uncredited labor--once considered a scholarly sin.
Someone is capitalizing off of others' work.
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
Oil sellers and gas guzzling vehicles have a mutually beneficial relationship.
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There is only one airline the Shopping Avenger believes understands the fundamentals of customer service, and that is Southwest Airlines.
Shopping Avenger has positive customer service reviews for Southwest Airlines.
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As in their Ed Wood (1994) and The People vs.
The movie Ed Wood was named after a real person who died in 1990.
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Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless.
The fashion women adhered to in the 50's was totally reinvented.
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The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.
General Dynamics once had an F-16 fighter division.
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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.
There are no expectations from reasonable people for the United States to bomb Turkey.
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The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994.
It was Jones' refusal to embellish the truth that led to their termination.
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Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!
I wouldn't be interested in an invitation to the bris.
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If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content.
Dexter thinks King should be satisfied with things as they are proposed.
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The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said.
The man received a passport issued by the United Kingdom.
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Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable?
His feelings of shame cause his discomfort.
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But the more important question How many teen-age girls are getting pregnant in the first place?
There is an important question about the number of teenage girls getting pregnant.
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So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
Bill Clinton's presidency was free from scandal.
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The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen.
Computer use is the most dangerous activity for a child.
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I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy.
Jokes that make fun of religions are appropriate.
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Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m.
The weekend edition is never published.
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Editorialists agree that Milosevic is a treacherous butcher, but nobody knows how to stop him without a major bombing campaign, for which Europe and the United States lack the stomach.
Milosevic is a non-violent pacifist.
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We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.
A single disease describes the syndrome.
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The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
None of the stories found success.
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Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society.
Your society is the most informal.
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The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.
There is no mention of incarceration in Bennett's 1994 volume.
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Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.
Gramm doesn't believe in frivolous government spending.
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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 1997 and 1998.
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