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But the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty ), has a thing about bringing macho men down to earth with a thud.
Simon Beaufoy likes to debunk macho men
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Lana's mother, Linda Gutierres (not her name in the film), told them where they could find Brandon.
Lana's mother knew where Brandon was
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While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site.
This was boringly predictable.
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The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.
The original statistical work in The Bell Curve uses a unknown database within it's structure.
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But it's a heckuva lot more arduous to conduct, in effect, a nationally televised cross-examination than to spend night after night droning, So Ms.
It's arduous to conduct a cross-examination on television.
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Now the practice has its own a triple--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.
The woman was not the child's mother.
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Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time).
Betsy was very smart and used that and her humor to make it happen.
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Now Clinton risks reversing, at least partially, the actual, practical process that brought him the caseload declines he's crowing about today.
Clinton has already reversed the process and is crowing about it.
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Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.
The papers do not discuss the federal program.
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Deseg students bused from the inner-city find class differences harder to bridge than racial ones.
The Deseg students found it easy to relate to the other students who were from a different social class than them.
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When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.
When there is censorship of what can be said in public, profanities become well accepted
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House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., has so far refused to schedule a hearing on Barr's resolution.
Social media has exploded in anger that Barr continues to be ignored.
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Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?
We are all teenagers.
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By time-shifting this feel-good scene forward, Man on the Moon relieves the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline.
Jim Carrey got many other dramatic parts thanks to his performance in Man on the Moon
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What I love about this Jordan thing is that he has embraced an opportunity that could lead to his total failure on a basketball court.
Jordan walked away from anything basketball related.
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The healing of the Gifford marriage is now complete, and Frank will never cheat again.
The Gifford's went to counseling to heal their marriage.
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Gays should come up with a word for their own committed relationships.
All those in a devoted same sex partnerhip use the identical term to describe their relationship.
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This is too bad, because Pokemon is undoubtedly much smarter and more charming than what will supplant it.
Pokemon will be replaced by a much larger phenomenon.
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You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.
Vinterberg only produces movies with an edgy, unrefined tone to them.
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What Isikoff couldn't pin down was whether the advance was welcome or not.
Isikoff was unsure about the advance.
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In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.
No Depression in Heaven was recorded by the Carter Family.
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And whether or not all the right jobs are filled with exactly the right people, the United States still manages to negotiate with China and the United Nations, the civil rights division still manages to file cases, and judges still manage to impose sentences.
It's happening more and more often that the wrong people are picked to do important jobs
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But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does?
Eastman produced the film.
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Makes you want to watch Sunday's game just to see how it turns out.
Sunday's game could be as interesting as the Super Bowl, you might want to check it out.
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The Pescis and Esther Williams won't come unless they get some!
The Pescis and Esther Williams want something in return for coming.
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American soldiers gave her a drink and poured water over her.
After wetting her, the troops denied her a drink.
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It was on the plane flying back to Washington that we got news of votes in the House committee that made impeachment extremely likely.
There is good chance for impeachment if we get the votes in the House.
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So who wins Round Two?
There ought be a winner for Round Two.
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Which brings us to possibility No.
This is the first possibility.
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Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr.
Russia has been at the top of his mind for several months.
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Of course, the magnitude of the threats faced by the United States bears no fixed relation to the size of our economy.
The economy of the United States is faced with threats.
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Responding to Bauer's assertion that he had never violated his wedding vows, another reporter cracked, President Clinton said that too.
President Clinton had the same story as Bauer.
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The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
The last portion of the film is like a pleasant walk in the park.
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He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump.
He's innovative and cutting edge, just like Trump and his buildings.
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Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.
Children who suffer, no matter the extent, can always overcome the damage done.
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The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law.
federal laws of protecting children's privacy for those under 13 are in place.
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This is certainly not democracy, but it's not totalitarianism either.
This is most certainly democracy.
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The version of Linux that comes in Mastering Linux offers no technical assistance, but Red Hat's version 5.2, which costs $39.
Red Hat's version 5.2 offers technical assistance.
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Forcing HMOs to stay in a failing business cannot be good for seniors and would chill entry by others.
It wouldn't be good for seniors to force HMOs to stay in a failing business.
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First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change.
not many people follow the golden rule about conventional wisdom.
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I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week.
Sometimes I throw rocks through the same McDonald's.
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Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader!
Iraqi commando units never televise any disturbing events on television.
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The natural paste, meanwhile, lacks all bite, and your mouth feels dirtier after you've brushed.
The paste provides a strong burst of cleaning power, which will leave your mouth feeling the cleanest that it's ever been.
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Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.
Leger is disliked for being a misogynist.
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The world would have conceded the claims of both gays and women without the student occupation of a single lecture hall anywhere in the world.
Lecture halls were major driving forces for worldwide acceptance of gays and women.
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Ah, it's always the big but.
There is always something that gets in the way.
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What is worrisome is the failure of pollsters themselves to learn from the history of their profession.
The accuracy of the predictions made by the pollsters became worst
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Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company.
The rules on reviewing a book published by one's own publishing company have changed.
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Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with the old, confident spirit of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place.
Without the Western example, Arabs would not have achieved awakening.
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Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection.
The president is protected by the Secret Service.
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The compositions become ever more undulating and graceful.
A renowned artist was the creator of these compositions.
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On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence.
Ignorance was bliss among the Harvard Square respondents.
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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 ).
He doesn't like to run his mouth.
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
The author suffered a lot in their life
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But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.
Chatters tend to ask bizarre, complex questions.
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While most people want to believe that God created us one way or another, few can swallow the literal creationist reading of the Bible, which holds that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
According to the Bible, the earth was created more than 10,000 years ago.
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There are, to be sure, pivotal generational experiences.
The generational experiences are meaningless.
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Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.
Presidential expectations go up substantially when America focuses on its finances after national trauma.
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Michael Kelly's WP column about Ken Starr vs.
Michael Kelly writes a regular column for WP.
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How much further could the ball have gone?
Someone wonders if the ball could have went farther.
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We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production.
The food system was ran mostly by robots and machines.
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I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology.
Michael J. Thun volunteers all his work with the American Cancer Society.
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He is too many other solid things, in addition to being a Star.
Besides being a star, she has a number of other positive qualities.
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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.
Joel Klein has been assistant attorney general for six years.
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Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict.
Clinton was in cahoots with Arafat.
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A teaser horse is the warm-up act, an important but ultimately expendable creature.
Teaser horses are famous.
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My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes!
The software makes mistakes often.
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The charities, Paris adds, don't endorse the product at all.
In Paris's opinion, the charities do not sponsor the product.
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In part, this is because Las Vegas has itself become one of the world's most powerful brand names.
Las Vegas is one of the world's weakest brand names.
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(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)
Clinton is unknown politician.
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To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl happened in the Great Depression.
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variety at the stand-ups, and pleasant trifles at the washstands.
The stand-ups and the washstands have different types.
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Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.
There is not enough radiation waste to cause problems like Three Mile Island-like effects.
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Annan is tough without being vicious.
Annan is cruel and vicious above all.
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I fear that a certain software billionaire may be a nut job.
Someone is brave in their belief that a software billionaire is perfectly normal.
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The last national gambling commission was in the mid-1970s.
National gambling commissions are voted out after the 1970's.
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Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
The groups were closed outside the West and the North.
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Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.
Many people chant.
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Alan Greenspan's still funny.
Greenspan's comedy has waned over the years.
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No inside-the-beltway PR victory is worth that kind of demoralization.
The consequent demoralization is not worth the public relations victory.
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(If you want to see the original of the pose, you can cross the Mall to the National Gallery, where Jacques-Louis David's 1812 Napoleon in His Study hangs.)
Jacques-Louis David's 1812 Napoleon in His Study hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.
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Modern legislation and regulation are technical and complex.
These present-day laws are tough to break down.
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For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid?
We questioned Jeeves on Bill Bradley and Medicaid.
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So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising?
What do many long years of consciousness-raising make you?
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Is the problem now more severe?
The problem has existed for a long time.
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, the government--borrowing a lot of money).
The government is completely out of debt.
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I'm not sure it is right, in ways I hope it is wrong, and in the end, Richard, you might be It might just not add up.
It ended up being right.
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If such evidence is present, return Kennewick Man to his rightful tribal reservation.
Kennewick Man should be sold to the highest bidder regardless of the facts.
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Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
During the 10th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a big party, with thousands in attendance, in Germany.
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But the studio system in Hollywood disappeared while studio execs remained important as deal makers, and the same could happen in advertising.
Studio systems in Hollywood have stayed the same since the beginning of time.
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Time describes honor killings in Jordan, which comprise a quarter of the Arab nation's homicides.
Other nations have honor killings as well.
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More Did Kaufman himself consider some of his experiments failures, or had his aesthetic finally become so punk/pro-wrestling that he thought driving people crazy was enough?
Kaufman had driven humans crazy.
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This, he contends, is a symbol of the decline of community spirit and the rise of atomistic individualism.
Some people are more individualistic than others
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The more she's covered, the less people care about her, and the more reporters hyperbolize.
People are more interested in seeing exposed women than well covered ones
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The judge agreed there were extenuating circumstances because both songwriters had been inspired by old blues music.
Every new song is unique and completely distinct from old ones
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And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it?
The author doesn't mind the buggery going on in the balcony.
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How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
The jail cell is the matter of debate in several circles.
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Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue.
Gloria Steinem was correct.
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Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
Powell has nothing to do with writers laboring in obscurity.
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This is an assumption about demand.
The author wants to write a paper about demand.
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