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On Tuesday's NYPD Blue (ABC, 10 p.m.), Rick Schroder's tight-lipped character, Danny Sorenson, opens up to Sipowicz while seeking help for an alcoholic friend.
Sorenson confiding in Sipowicz is atypical for his usual demeanor.
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They especially take him to task for blaming Plath's suicide on fate and astrology.
Plath's suicide was hard for their family and friends to accept.
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He's making himself a positive role model for kids and displaying the leadership for which the American people are hungering.
America is longing for a positive leader.
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The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting.
The act is a positive for the rules of broadcasting.
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Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.
Cracking down on the fiscal policies is helping the economy boom.
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We know, of course, whose dreams Tom is a character in.
Someone dreams about Tom
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(Remember, they weren't Time Warner fans prior to the AOL deal.)
Their overall opinion of Time Warner before the AOL deal is known as shared knowledge of the past.
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The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies.
The pioneer sexologist was exposed as a gay masochist.
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The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.
The Street Lawyer is self-righteous.
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(But let's not bring up my cousins.)
My cousins should be discussed in the matter.
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The USAT lead states that leaks indicate that in his deposition last Saturday, Clinton was asked detailed questions about his sexual history with at least four women, including one woman escorted by a state trooper to a rendezvous just days before he became president.
The mysterious state trooper had a hand in Clinton's relationships with all four women.
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I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does.
Joan Didion knows about this topic more than me
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Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism.
All the causes of the terrorists are wrong
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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 urged planning for the refugee crisis sure to come.
Milosevic offered to compromise on NATO's military threat.
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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.
Rudy Giuliani drove crime up and the economy down, worsening the state of New York City.
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With this retrospective, the newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig a k a Weegee (1899-1968) is judged a technical virtuoso, a great artist, and an inspiration to his followers.
Weegee inspired people who viewed his art.
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The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father.
Stern carries his radio persona and his personal life in two completely different ways.
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The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics.
The movie Wilde is better than the play Wilde.
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Which somehow doesn't seem to be the best way to prepare for the next decade.
The is the best approach to the next decade.
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24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox commentaries on politics, and Culturebox on ...
The Slate features haven't been updated in years.
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In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA.
Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman are the only ones who agree with free-trade agreements.
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It's a big week for women's health at Newsweek , too.
Newsweek is going to celebrate women's health for only this week.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
At once dull and comforting, Tout de Suite vibrates with allusions of Davis' future explorations beyond rock.
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Progressives are more definitive than most other observations about patently obvious things in society.
Progressives make definitive observations.
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Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.
Marilyn Monroe was considered a very ugly woman.
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Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, I'm a human being!
She strongly commanded to be a person, but was not actually one.
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If we want to change that attitude, Hollywood should not be the main place we look.
Hollywood is the only place that should be looked at for changing attitudes.
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Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.
I think that the unnecessarily long duration of the recording is an indicator of an underlying motivation.
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He has threatened to veto the five remaining appropriations bills in the 2000 budget because of Republicans' proposed cuts in social programs.
He gave unconditioned support to Republicans' bills
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I was about to say that studies showed no connection.
The studies are closely correlated with each other.
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Apparently it's easier to make a mouse talk than to come up with something interesting for him to say (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ).
A mouse can actually talk.
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(As a variation on this theme, one can imagine a strategic schooling motive, whereby the least-accomplished children get extra schooling, in the hope that they will become more interesting to converse with.)
The strategy will help improve all students.
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I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair.
The critics did not provide an unbiased critique.
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This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.
The story focused on interviews more than research.
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Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits.
The conservatives resist term limits with sensible justifications.
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They hype you by giving you an award.
An award is great way to buildup a person.
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The RPH who must legislate or govern (Gingrich, Kasich, Bush) is quieter about his principles--probably because he actually has to live by them.
The RPH can say or do anything he wants due to the length of the leash that the citizens warrant him.
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Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven?
Hell care about heaven more than anyone else does.
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Now it appears that he may have been simply assuring himself she really was dead, at least according to three of Wynette's daughters, who have filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.
Wynette's daughters, filed a $50 thousand dollar wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.
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What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
The exhibition was seen as lively and upbeat.
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Bill, our program manager (chief tech guy) answers questions about problems and possibilities in reading SLATE.
Bill will strictly read a statement without a question and answer period.
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New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction
One in seven black males have committed a serious crime in their life, while baking a delicious pineapple upside down cake.
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But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting a party, meaning the Conservative Party.
Boulaye had consistently refused to show support for a single party.
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Or, better yet, he should build houses for the poor under the supervision of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter wants to oversee him build high end condos.
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We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.
We should respect the cuisines of other cultures or we risk being falsely confident of our own.
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European national leaders know they've got to tackle their deficits, but none of them wants the heat for cutting featherbedding or generous social-payment systems.
Reducing social payment systems is the easy solution to eliminating deficits.
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In the black black-black offspring.
Black is the predominant color of the offspring.
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Why should the pro-gamblers cooperate with a critical study?
Many gamblers will cooperate with the study.
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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.
The job of the first lady is not important anymore
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Or maybe what's new about the rules is the claim that now, for the first time, they apply to a large part of the economy.
The new rules have a much larger scope
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I am sure that, despite its logic, my position sounds unrealistic to many readers.
All the readers believe in the position they read about.
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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.
Bennett was not honest about imprisoning criminals about murder.
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[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture.
Regarding the culture, it is but a commentary.
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Greenberg and the contributors to The New Majority think Democrats can win future elections by identifying with the concerns of working people.
Democrats doesn't need the support of working people to win the elections
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The Shopping Avenger right away made contact with the Super 8 executive offices.
The Shopping Avenger waited a while before contacting Super 8.
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Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).
There are many different universes out there.
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Why didn't Ellison finish--or publish--the book?
Ellison finished and published the book immediately.
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Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes.
The prosecuting attorney went on to hit several more court battles out of the ballpark.
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At the Pentagon, real-world combat requirements come first--except when they don't.
Real world combat requirements aren't in the Pentagon's radar of operations
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The most controversial part of Finkelstein's book, though, is the last chapter, in which he sets out to explain why the Goldhagen book was such a big deal.
Finkelstein said the Goldhagen book was small and trivial.
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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.
Willey's revenge incorporated lying about a pregnancy.
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This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.
Mozart was known for writing controversial compositions.
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In other words, I write because I think it is right.
The author always believes that they are right.
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It is hard to imagine, though, why any government would embargo such a product, unless the plastic surgeons' lobby has already got to them.
The government banned the product.
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That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity.
Most companies that would be penalized are in the technology sector.
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According to psychologist David Keirsey, you are one of Plato's four types, you were born that way, you will always be that way, and you can find out which one you are by taking the temperament sorter quiz on his Web site.
Taking the quiz only takes a few minutes.
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The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee.
The deal between the University of Chicago and UNEXT.com is off the table.
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OK, fine--simply provide me with quarterly reports on the yield of the fund and the value of my share in it.
Reports are available that show one's value of what they own.
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The military's officer corps, especially the Army's, has been successfully transformed from a clubby elite, where promotions depended on golfing partners, into a more integrated meritocracy.
The Army's officer corps transformed into an elite for golfing partners.
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This is a political as well as military project.
This project is everything but military and political.
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This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Richard Gephardt is not a leader.
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So we all have benefited indirectly.
Indirectly, we have all seen positives from it.
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Moreover, to whatever extent you are superior, it is probably the result of genes and attitudes inherited from your parents and not something you created for yourself.
Attitudes are inherited.
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Unless you can go back in time, cutting the tax rate on existing capital gains cannot possibly increase investment in productive resources.
Changing other tax rates can have a positive affect.
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And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay.
Jacob said to his mother that he would take his brother to a stylist who is not gay.
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(And yes, we'd like one, hypocrites that we are, thank you very much.)
Go ahead and keep it, because we're believers of truth.
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ATandT's plan, announced in February, to use wireless systems to offer local phone service has been widely dismissed as unconvincing.
AT&T's February plan was dismissed because I can't accomplish using wireless systems to offer local phone service.
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Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country.
He had to wait two years to become a citizen in the UK.
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These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War.
They have been against every American military operation.
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He's plunging us, the viewers, into it, too.
He didn't include anyone into it.
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Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).
Many might nowtwant to wear the futuristic designs.
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There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.
A solid foundation does not exist for the pesky questions.
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But, says Kull, One would not expect a real bounce until you see some signs of success.
When you see signs of success, that's when one can expect the biggest failure to happen.
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He had a video camera attached to the ceiling, which recorded every move.
She placed a video camera in the room to record herself.
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Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart.
Brahms and Mozart are best friends and make the same kind of music.
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I don't suppose that everyone is like that.
Everyone is like that.
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But the solution is not to give up on special prosecutors.
Some want to give up on special prosecutors.
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The company, which is now traded publicly, was started in 1980 by a psychologist named Stephen Gordon, who was restoring a Queen Anne-style house in Eureka, Calif., and found it maddeningly difficult to locate the period-style fixtures he needed.
Stephen Gordon started a company in 1799 restoring a house he really enjoyed doing.
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To her way of thinking no nonessential spending, no desire to possess things, can ever be innocent or morally neutral.
Is morally more acceptable to not spend in nonessential than doing the opposite
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But Will He Bring Back the Football Team?
The future of the football team is not sure
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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.
Capitalists consider targeting commercials of fast food, sneakers, and malt liquor.
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Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.
Zhukov gathered the impossible to defeat men and women to put a halt to the German army.
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I'll say it Read the directions.
Just read the directions to understand how to fix it.
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That in the process she had learned what makes the locals tick--as well as a language known to few, if any, CIA officials--was of no Her chances of being hired would have been much better if she had remained celibate in Salt Lake City.
Her quickly getting a job was a walk in the park.
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There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.
The responses seemed ordinary of todays people.
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Ian Fleming's James Bond was a snob and a lightweight.
Ian Fleming created a character in James Bond that was tough.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Young, and Jackson set Bond into place, and things began to turn around for them in the future.
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Does W. agree with this sentiment?
W. already shared their perspective about this idea.
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And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase dumbing down or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates all spoke in full sentences, in iambic pentameter, in Latin, while wearing complicated wigs and fancy hats and several layers of underwear with fastenings so elaborate you had to be like a genius just to undress for one of your Naked Fireside Chats from the Aero White House, a giant dirigible moored to Zelda Fitzgerald.
Game show questions have become easier to answer.
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I'm from a small country [New Zealand], but I don't see what we are doing here as a threat to our sovereignty.
New Zealand is a large country.
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