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Who says a creative-writing MFA is a sure path to permanent unemployment?
Creative writing may lead to permanent unemployment.
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But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web.
We've thoroughly covered every fundamental truth about the Web.
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The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense.
Tourists and pigeons go well together.
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The Easter spirit is A week after Time 's heaven cover story, Newsweek and U.S.
Halloween is a hot topic in the Easter spirit article.
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Lose the dismal cover illustrations and return to having a lead review or cover essay.
The cover illustrations are amazing
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Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory.
He hit the ball in play.
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American Justin Leonard's 45-foot birdie putt on the 17 th hole set off a celebration on the course before his European opponent finished playing.
An American hit a 45 foot birdie on the 17th hole.
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Doctor and refusing women their reproductive rights.
Most men believe that their reproductive rights are more important than their freedom of speech.
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Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.
Chemical companies do not want the treaty.
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Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination.
Ned Devine was predicted to make even more money than The Full Monty.
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That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.
It was a gutsy thing.
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To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.
Rolling Stones music is liked by Tommy Hilfiger.
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Paul Samuelson had good reasons for beginning his textbook with Keynesian analysis.
Paul Samuelson uses Keynesian analysis in order to further the arguments in his textbook.
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As a result, they avoid the concussive head wounds that kill boxers--and the long-term neurological damage that cripples them.
They do not avoid concussive head wounds.
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The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something.
It is tacky to be forced to pay to sit down at a cabaret.
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A horse sitter mistakenly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.
Mr. Ed had alerted his horse-sitter enough to be given a tranquilizer.
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A number of Korean businesses went bankrupt, either because of dishonest practices or because the possible Korean share of world markets for some products, like automobiles, had been overestimated.
The number of Korean Businesses that went bankrupt is 15.
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The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.
Contraception has been a factor in lowering the the teen-age fertility rate in recent years.
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I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.
You will definitely find instances where I used it.
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Nonetheless, his book is a valuable contribution to the debate, because it gives those with experience an abstract architectural plan against which to evaluate today's imperfect reality of criminal justice.
The book is very popular.
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Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language.
although a bit critical over other issues, critics still praise McCarthy for other attributes.
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The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican.
the previous POV could be imagined as a Democratc.
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How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities?
People question the fairness of essays in college admissions.
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It was not always this way.
Some days are the same as others.
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Newsweek 's Michael Jordan cover story focuses on off-the-court Jordan.
Michael Jordan works on a court.
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In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
Johnny Cash did not like acting in the movie.
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One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia.
The U.S. previously planned for war with Russia.
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The benefits of managed care are unremarkable and undramatic (lower premiums, more preventive care).
only 12% of people can afford managed care.
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It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.
Roast beef and pork crackling is British food.
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Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid
Robert Kennedy lives in New York state.
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(Could there be any other real answer?)
The speaker has no interest in real answers, they've never even thought about it.
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It would be very interesting to perform the same experiment with, say, medical journals instead of economics journals.
The author does not believe the experiment would be very entertaining in a medical context.
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A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques.
The editor who works as science still works in her position as book-review editor.
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Another Fan Page has a set of good links about the affair and a message board, too, though on last visit, it was no longer available.
The message board on the fan page discussing the affair isn't online anymore.
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This year, my wife is dragging me to the home of some friends of hers to celebrate the new year.
My wife could not get me to celebrate the new year.
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Upon returning to Apple, he began criticizing almost immediately the company's 1995 decision to finally allow a limited number of companies to manufacture Mac clones, calling these firms leeches.
The man has never been with Apple.
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Waking Ned Devine might have been a snooze if Jones hadn't stocked it with a slew of old actors with magically lived-in visages.
Ned Devine had known Jones for a long time.
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The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.
Supranational regulation is more typically found in countries that share common languages.
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The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
The stock market is bouncing back.
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She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.
She is interested and drawn towards me, we would like to engage in more of each other.
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Klayman, who presents a coherent faaade while making wild and unsubstantiated charges, is perfect.
Klayman is a male.
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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.
The amount of radioactive food waste produced is too big and is creating serious health effects.
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The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity.
Most of the time our sources want everyone to know they were part of the story.
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That Explains Why Clinton's Finger The McLaughlin Group spends 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's jokey suggestion that Clinton is actually ...
Maureen Dowd was not afraid to make a joke regarding Clinton.
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He opens people up by agreeing with them.
He has disagreements with everyone.
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Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.
Israeli security believe the real-estate dealer was murdered by an American.
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Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.
This marketer doesn't target schools.
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If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.
Indexed funds were in existence in 1994.
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Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.
No responses are ever needed for the Cox report.
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At the expense of the middle class.
the middle class will pay dearly.
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Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.
Reno was frustrated that she didn't have more influence.
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If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirkiest performer in the history of the movies.
Smirking is unheard of at Ivy League schools.
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(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.)
The folks are well-known authors.
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He speaks very, very slowly.
He speaks very fast.
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Terrible scenes of massacres, bombings, and the like are displayed almost daily.
There are daily displays of terrible scenes.
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80 HK for a super-value meal and $6 HK for each Snoopy toy McDonald's sells.
The value meal was an original idea by Mcdonalds.
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Part uplift for black kids, part thrilling feats of circus daring, it's family programming that can appeal to adults of all races.
Lots of people watch shows that feature families.
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Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails.
Quality-of-life drugs offer more than just a pleasing possibility.
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Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court.
The act of planning to commit a crime can be a crime itself.
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They are too easy a target.
Someone is being targetted.
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The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.
Her actions are what concerns Betty Currie and the President.
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In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.
Christopher Plummer watched tapes of the co-anchor in order to accurately mimic his mannerisms.
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Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away.
He had a fear of corpses.
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S chool Since the Columbine killings, there's been a special focus on depictions of adolescents committing mayhem in school.
The focus of depictions of adolescents changed after Columbine.
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Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition.
She's been in this condition for over 12 hours.
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In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.
Republican presidents would sometimes try to make military decisions without congressional support.
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Even though Washington Week 's treatment of Flytrap is inordinately polite, it is worth watching--but only if you don't watch the rest of the show first.
Flytrap is a show.
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There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.
The scene involved a squabble between community leaders and local politicians.
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He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years.
Over the course of 20 years, he has not thought of anything new.
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, the government--borrowing a lot of money).
the government has no borrow limit.
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Another school of thought contends that faith and reason occupy two different realms of knowing.
Faith and reason occupy the same sphere of knowledge.
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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.
The interest group does not believe the Democrats have any chance of future victories.
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Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned.
Frank did not distinguish the differences in consumer experience, he just stuffs everything into boxes.
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Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass the test); and 4) be of good moral character.
candidates must be under 18, never have been in the USA, speak any other language but English, and be a vigilante.
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At least it gives the film a surprise ending.
The ending is a dull disappointment.
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One unanswered question is how much time Clinton will spend in his home state once his library is completed.
There are no unanswered questions.
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As for the victory in Chechnya, it's a mirage.
There is no mirage.
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News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom.
The news has doubts they will continue the multidecade boom.
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The new health scare is a staph germ that is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort.
Staph germs are easily killed by all medicine.
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Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).
Lee does not have anyone who protects him.
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Few bounty hunter training programs exist--the most frequently attended programs are 20-hour courses that cover only basic legal constraints.
The vast majority of bounty hunter training programs work solely on the legal framework of the work.
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But there would not be, nor could there have been, an overall increase in prices.
There would eventually be a price increase across the board.
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MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.
MI asserts intelligence requires many aspects.
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Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be terribly counterproductive because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't.
Le Monde's editiorial appeared in Saturday's release.
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Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely.
The subjects discussed do not favor Republican policies.
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Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, cozied up to Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as un-American agitators who used their alleged power to attain their parochial ends.
Lindbergh thought that Jewish people were essentially the same as every other American.
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Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets.
Those who protested NATO's actions in Kosovo were right in their protest, and no fictional analogy compares.
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White critics of integration include the neo-conservatives , former liberals who supported the civil-rights mainstream until the early '70s.
Many white people worried that integration would result in even greater discrimination.
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And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it?
A party was held on the balcony.
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These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.
Kenneth Starr won the case.
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I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.
The author is not ashamed to admit they are not sure how to say John La Care's name.
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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 thinks all airline customer services are terrible.
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It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions.
Applying close scrutiny and asking questions is something that should be discouraged.
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Felicia's Journey takes place behind the eyes of its central a young Irish girl, Felicia, who crosses the sea to England in a hopeful quest to find the father of her unborn child; and the fat, middle-aged catering manager, Hiditch, who takes a paternal interest in the lass when it becomes clear that her young man has caddishly given her the slip.
Felicia is on the verge of heartbreak.
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Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize
We must keep banks open at all times no matter the circumstances.
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Tysons Corner touts the advantages of buying gift certificates online--you can save time and purchase them from the comfort of your PC--and it even advertises special benefits that can only be received with online orders, such as special shipping rates.
The gift certificates can be bought at any price.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
A person with writing utensils is not happy.
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Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations.
Medical fake operations don't exist according to Time.
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Slate 's Web site might be at the moment, and how clogged your local-area network might be.
Slate has a website on the internet.
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But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
He did not obtain the ring.
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