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Many Protestants have no doubt that Jesus is really present in the Communion distributed at Catholic Masses.
Jesus is considered to be there in the Communion by several Protestants.
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The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.
The Japanese affair makes weird connections to American culture.
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Some even think that while Internet competition may drive prices down initially, prices will rise as sellers are matched with buyers and the market clears.
The internet will have an effect on prices in retail stores.
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Microsoft did not demand that Netscape be removed, only that IE be there as well.
Netscape was removed largely due to Microsoft's insistence.
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Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too.
It is possible for its effect on the individual to vary greatly from that on everyone else.
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(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)
Russia doesn't provide "the real numbers" in many cases, including the military
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DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.
Neanderthals are not the ancestors of humans, according to DNA evidence.
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One of the most famous of all photographs is Robert Capa's 1936 Moment of Death , taken during the Spanish Civil War.
The famous photo, Moment of Death ,was taken during the Spanish Civil War.
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I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley.
Bradly thinks he knows what the public wants.
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In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over.
People were sad that he was sentenced.
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The British company that recently won fame for cloning a sheep is reportedly on the verge of deriving human blood plasma from sheep and cows.
The company was unable to clone a sheep.
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In some countries, they'd be the dinner.
They'd be eaten depending on what country they're in.
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President Clinton welcomed Yasser Arafat to the White House and criticized Israel for expanding Jewish housing in East Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat ate a large meal with Clinton at the White House.
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Maybe if I were gay, but I'm not.
The author likes people of their same genre
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I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence.
It's a common practice to listen to radio while driving
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All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt.
Gigot was in third place.
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We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions.
If you can't agree on something, you should try to compromise.
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But there's more about Colorado you might not know.
The things not known about Colorado are going to remain unknown.
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There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.
Rubin was not thinking straight, that's why he made a mistake.
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The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.
The dissolution of the USSR severely impacted Russia's military.
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Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.
The article believes that Bush has already been crowned as the favorite to win, despite Quayle being a tough opponent.
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When the American diplomat who supervises the international peace monitors in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre, the Yugoslav (i.e.
The American diplomat loved the Serb police.
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As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again.
Winter season flakes are falling on the plants now.
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True--but I fully grant that importance.
I concede that this is important.
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It's true that different pieces benefit from different treatment
One treatment is better than the other.
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On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips.
The deep-pink species tulips within the two terra-cotta pots were well taken care of by their owner.
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There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan.
China is at ease about Taiwan.
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But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.
She found his behavior humorous rather than humiliating.
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The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot.
The flames are a sign that something will catch fire.
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That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws.
If Johann Gutenberg didn't create the printing press, we couldn't preserve laws.
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Coulter argues ad Clinton's China satellite policy was treason.
Clinton's policy was treason, Coulter argues.
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Clinton ( sorrowfully ): It wasn't me.
Clinton admitted to doing it.
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Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.
Dole has female followers.
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Against all this, Morris shows footage of Leuchter chiseling at Auschwitz and even adds some of his own, along with slow-motion shots of hammers bashing rocks, walls, floors, etc.
There are multiple video of various objects being hit.
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I'll say it Read the directions.
Several of us do not need to read instructions.
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If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it.
She has plans to do something besides read the sketch on the pencil box.
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Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.
No information is provided to confront the crime of fraud within the FEMA website.
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I am sure that, despite its logic, my position sounds unrealistic to many readers.
Many readers do not believe what they are reading.
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Dexter and Jones are also seeking financing for their piace de resistance , the King Dream Center, a $50-million interactive museum complete with virtual-reality games.
Because their plan is not cheap, Dexter and Jones sought millions in financing.
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Here's the way one investment industry correspondent--who prefers to be nameless--put it to me.
The investment industry correspondent wanted to be anonymous when he told him.
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The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times.
The typical teen does not care who stars in a movie.
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Perhaps we are now seeing a new social phenomenon--trophy kids.
People do not see their kids as trophies.
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The group of student donors who collectively gave $200,000 to Clinton used different designations when contributing an additional $100,000 to him and others.
$300,000 was given to Bill and Hillary.
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What's their bet?
They will win their bet.
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Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.
A few politicians dismiss both NAFTA and WHO.
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A two-hour look at the evolution of underwear, the special is as silly as it sounds.
The two-hour look was about the history of sweaters.
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The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet.
Santeria is popular in New York with West Indians.
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There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001.
Commuting Pollard's sentence will extricate Clinton from the matter.
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They're more interested in spiritual self-flagellation and renewal.
They are drawn to punishing themselves for spiritual benefit.
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Virtually all the fans with whom I have spoken over the years (quite a friendly bunch, actually) consider the absence of big wrecks, injuries, etc., a key component of a good race.
The fans are rude, but they want to see the cars driving safely.
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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 are very specific for a small niche of the economy
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The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.
The 80s mania led to laziness in craftmanship and an unsuccessful 90s.
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The magazine predicts softer GOP stances on gun control and abortion.
Gun control and abortion were discussed in the magazine.
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As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.
This person announces the price of a uniform.
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Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society ( office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
He can never marry lesser people in their circle.
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Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.
Bauer believed that America was on an upward slope of moral behavior.
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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 1980 restoring a house.
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USA Today described the models as struggling actresses, reported that they were unaware of the health risks of donating eggs, and quoted one as saying, I'd rather do this than do Playboy or Penthouse . Harris' sole verified bidder told the paper that selling eggs was better than prostitution.
The paper reported that selling eggs was better than prostitution.
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Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, who studies the daily life of Jews in Nazi Germany.
Marion Kaplan heard many names of SS officials
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Music critics complain about the computer's tin ear, but artificial intelligence experts are impressed.
Artificial intelligence experts were happy with the computer's tin ear.
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That's what the Globe had to do last week for actress Bo Derek and her director husband, John.
The Globe will meet Bo Derek for the first time in the next week
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In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31.
$10 off on Mother's Day flowers expires after July 31st.
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But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle.
Due to their complexity, both aviation and romance take years of experience before one can succeed.
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Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary.
Sheen will have a obituary printed soon.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Elizabeth Drew's reporting holds widespread acclaim for being engaging and suspenseful.
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The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal?
There are many creative titles for books out there.
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while pointing to a chart.
The chart was a bar chart.
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One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges at all.
Lewinsky asked for immunity via her attorney in exchange for her cooperation.
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This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields.
Sheilds worked for the Clinton political campaign.
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I sometimes found myself wishing he would let the picture catch its breath, that the performers would stop coming at me in stroboscopic flashes.
I hoped the picture would get better.
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Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
It might seem like progress Smith pushing a measure to spend as much as the president on birth control.
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More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light.
The market is being corrupted by something else.
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A gesture clearly suited to football's warlike nature, the Salute is named for Denver's Mile High Stadium.
Football is a very peaceful sport.
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The product itself won't be in stores until summer, so it's way too early to know how the shaving public will respond.
The public will have to wait until June to buy the new product.
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When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework.
Dorothy Parker saw the trade off of past to present supply and demand.
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He is, as one writer put it, the efficient ethnic cleanser.
One writer thinks he is bad at cleaning.
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But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
Drugs are distributed carefully.
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There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation.
Liberation for nebbishes occurred years ago.
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They are great respecters of private property.
They have always been this way.
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With a little luck, by the time I contract a fatal disease, I'll already be dead.
It's likely the author will get a fatal disease long before death.
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Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice.
The members of the Office of Special Investigations are doing an excellent job of maintaining justice.
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But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism school.
Doris Day was the person who took the lead in terms of her outfits.
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You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section.
The author is bringing up someone attending a concluding section in a questioning manner.
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Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc.
They were discussing the book for their weekly book club meeting.
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This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
She uses the alleged societal dynamic as a basis for her stories.
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It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg.
It would be reasonable to think he'd need her services.
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The tricky question is what are the core values that really define you and what are the fringe issues on which differences are not crucial.
Fringe issues always create crucial, critical differences in all people.
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(It's short indeed, going from Mesopotamia to medieval Burgundy to Nicole Simpson in 10 pages.)
The book has 20 pages to read.
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A core group of kids do have a distinct attention abnormality, but Ritalin worked so well--it can reduce distractibility even in perfectly normal children--that now almost any difficult child is considered for the diagnosis and drug.
It is hard now to be diagnosed with an attention abnormality.
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Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while.
Senators really love hearing their own voice.
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Yet the Frenchman's travels might not have been possible if many stage-coach companies had not been subsidized--through Congress--so that mail could be carried, and representatives travel home, to remote districts.
His travels were done entirely by stage-coach.
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It would be very interesting to perform the same experiment with, say, medical journals instead of economics journals.
The experiment is an economic experiment.
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It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.
Men disinclined to violence are getting killed off.
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Everybody says--every politician--[that] it's to your disadvantage not to answer it.
Politicians argue that the most important tools they possess are the brain and the mouth.
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It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it.
The book looks ugly at first.
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If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig.
Binging with food is never a good idea
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Museum of Jewish A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York City).
There is a Jewish Museum in New York City.
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Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.
The form is designed to be difficult.
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Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug.
The author mocks the idea of Wachtler ever writing a book.
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USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.
Regular graphs and USA snapshots are rare.
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