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Has the government not tried hard enough?
The government is being questioned.
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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
Eszterhas is mysterious on purpose.
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Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick.
Joe was involved in a car accident.
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His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
Julie was a granddaughter and my best friend.
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Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.
since 1993, hearsay about Albright's background has been circulating.
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But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid helped to establish the Western as a prominent film genre.
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The flip side is that parolees who want to go straight often can make it if they are literate, civil, and can stay off drugs, remain sober, and get a job.
It is easy as a parolee to not come back to prison.
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Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.
Bill Clinton, a Democrat, is anything but moderate.
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No wonder many hate it in France, especially for schoolgirls, who are meant to mix with others on an equal footing in all respects; and in determinedly modernized Turkey, too.
In England, on the other hand, many people actually like it.
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Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.
The postal network was able to expand beyond its initial reach.
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Is this simply the nature of status--the rich will always find a way to distinguish themselves from the poor?
It's questioned if the nature of status involves the rich finding ways to flaunt their status to distinguish their distance from the poor.
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The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd.
Robert Smithson and Donald Judd will not do well as the other picks.
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This may be justified or not--we like him well enough around here!
We like him but he can be hard to deal with sometimes.
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This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
Abstract Expressionists herald Dove as their forefather.
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His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.
The musician earned, at first, $25,000 weekly for After The Ball.
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But marketing people are the worst offenders when it comes to wanting to add new features, generating loud choruses of NO even from otherwise enthusiastic developers.
Marketing people are the only people who want new features added to products.
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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.
The songs were of the rock genre.
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At their press conference after the Senate verdict, several House prosecutors interrupted their sermons against the polls to point out where the public agreed with them.
This mistaken belief was largely fueled by the prosecutors being out of touch with the average American.
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Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant?
Zapruder may have been a plant.
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He felt a bond with us as fellow writers.
There's a connection among writers.
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The conservatives have managed to cast themselves as the scourge of pedophiles, insinuate that the president is soft on pedophilia, and link Clinton to a sub rosa campaign to lower the age of consent--and all this is based on a report that no one noticed until the Christian right uncovered it, that no one in the White House seems to have read, and that no one remotely linked to the Democratic Party or the White House has ever endorsed.
The democratic party isn't harsh on pedophilia.
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Can a meeting with Al Gore (or at least Hillary Clinton) be far behind?
The author believes that the meeting will take place in the White House.
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(Clinton to We're basically following your game plan.
Clinton was being dishonest.
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There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.
They're not even pretending this is about tourism.
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It is a beautiful, sad little movie about betrayal.
The movie is a comedy, and always happy.
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Some legal scholars, such as Robert Bork, claim these search powers are unconstitutionally broad.
Robert Bork believes all search powers are constitutional.
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You want a recipe for healing?
The recipe has kale and honey in it.
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In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
Kodak won the WTO case.
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I maintained throughout the Reagan years that appearances was a dodge for accusers and malefactors alike.
Appearances were often deceiving during the Reagan era.
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He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses.
Every single expense was recorded, even the smallest ones.
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He's capable of much more than he usually gives.
He only tries about twice a week.
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A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson.
Lincoln never actually slept in the Lincoln bedroom.
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I then launched Xwindows.
The computer program is sophisticated.
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Democrats have done themselves a lot of harm by refusing to discriminate between those programs that are vital and those that are not.
All governmental programs are vital.
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I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs.
The author's criticism resulted in a drop in the price of Close's lithographs.
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The speech was long and, I can now see, rather platitudinous.
The speech was short and concise.
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She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.
she happens to be really, really short.
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Anyway, what would be the point?
The point will be explained momentarily.
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Alan Greenspan's still funny.
Alan Greenspan was amusing to at least one person.
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T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system.
According to T. Temple Tuttle the holes can not be related to any known scales.
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Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?
The metropolis in the film has a lot of crime.
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Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.
The Globe published a tame interview which is appropriate for children of all ages.
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In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash.
He has changed and refined his principle during these last few years.
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But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.
The Smithsonian had wanted scientists to study Kennewick Man more.
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Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.
This was Tucci's finest acting performance.
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Many of the qualities attributed to Clinton's women also describe his mother, Virginia Kelley.
The mother of Clinton was named Virginia Kelley.
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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. nuclear arsenal has been reduced.
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Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey.
Kevin Spacey was the best actor in the show.
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The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously.
The media did not take the shooting seriously.
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He telegraphs the ending--you know the Limey will somehow be at the root of his daughter's death--but it's still an emotional wow.
The ending was a disappointment.
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But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99.
Blankey didn't know what's a 99.
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Then every share of Daimler-Benz stock sold between 1950 and 1980 sells at a discount reflecting that expectation.
After the 1980's, Daimler-Benz struggled to fulfill investor expectations.
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Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?
Companies never quit while they are ahead.
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That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism.
All Republicans have always been said to adore Bobby Kennedy.
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The Constitution requires only that a senator when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Some senators have homes in Hawaii.
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From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.
It is impossible for any media to be without bias.
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Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.
There were arguments from Reagan that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to certain places.
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We must make do with the public domain.
We have so much more to work with than the public domain.
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Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.
The treaty allows chemical companies to make bigger profit.
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They don't see a need for Washington.
They think that it is crucial for Washington to take the lead on this matter.
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The important question is not whether Clinton had sex with her and lied about it but what the country should do about this.
The author thinks that Clinton should be impeached for his behavior.
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Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent.
The position sounds appealing, but incoherent enough to cause concern.
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It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.
Handwriting will become more valuable as electronic media continues to grow.
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As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.
The deal for Lucasfilm is one of the best.
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But the IRS isn't out of control.
The IRS is erratic and unstable.
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Obviously, it's easy for me to complain about players who aren't big on self-effacement or deference to authority.
It's easy for everyone to complain about players who aren't vig on self-effacement.
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Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.
Companies are currently not being penalized for laying off employees.
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If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here.
The Secret Service agent was happy to talk about what he saw between the former president and Lewinsky.
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But my point Who's going to hire him?
No one seems willing to hire him.
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It's OK, Leo Strauss Was a Devoted Someone should slip Kenneth Starr a tape of this week's This Week , where Kristol admits to being eliminated from the office NCAA pool.
Leo Strauss thought someone should give Kenneth a tape of This Week from this week.
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Should we reward him for keeping us out of war?
If not for him rallying anti-war sentiment, the U.S. would have escalated the conflict.
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Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans.
The retirement plans were all incredibly comprehensive for their time.
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Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).
Arendt enjoyed irritating feminists as well as other liberal activists.
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For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.
The implanted circuit board is less likely to be effective in older patients.
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The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.
The first magnet schools in Charlotte were introduced before the year 2000.
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In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.
The increasing amount of homosexual references in children's entertainment is intentional.
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Time calls Bill Bradley's nascent presidential campaign strategy charming and insane.
Bill Bradley is running for president.
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Parcells has an addict's relationship with football.
Parcell's life work revolves around football.
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Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.
Saddam has hid all of his nuclear weapons away from the U.N.
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I think our country deserves a president who, when he makes a mistake, is willing to acknowledge it and willing to learn from it, because I believe that the presidency is not an academic exercise.
In the past presidents have treated the role as an academic exercise.
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Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock
Journalists love classical music.
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Nickles advocated a compromise, and Lott expressed interest in Yugoslavia's proposal for a lightly armed U.N. peacekeeping force in Kosovo rather than a fully equipped NATO force.
Lott is more warmongering than Nickles.
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And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on.
There are critics who object the idea that human life is sacred.
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Kaaterskill Falls ,by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press).
Allergra Goodman has never travelled to Kaaterskill Falls.
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Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.
The American public does not like soldiers dying in the war.
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Josh Pons did not like this.
Josh Pons had a purely positive evaluation of this.
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Update on the campaign-finance 1) The Democratic money scandal is converging with the Teamsters scandal.
The Teamsters scandal has been under investigation for some time.
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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.
Evans and Novak had no visitors during their holiday.
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(The exception is the cast of non-Jewish locals, who are almost all soap operaish white trash.)
Nearly all of the non-Jewish locals are white trash.
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I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons.
The commons should establish a voice that benefits them.
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Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.
Marketers do not want attention.
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The world is aging, frets the cover story . Life expectancy is climbing, fertility is sliding, and the cost of supporting the elderly could cause a global recession.
The cost of supporting the elderly is a concern.
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The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.
Women buy condoms to keep in their nightstand.
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But what it isn't is a rational way to run an industry.
If an industry was run in this manner it would be destroyed in a matter of years.
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(For more on the meeting, see .) (2/22/99)
The meeting was lengthy.
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There are lots of enormous rocks, anyway, which in my experience tends to mean lots of enormous snakes.
There are no snakes around the rocks.
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The film gives the impression that Flynt has none, although he has five--to the best of his knowledge.
Flynt is portrayed as not having any, despite the truth of the situation.
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I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD.
The e-mail the company sent me helped to fix the problem.
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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
ever since the foundation instilled new rules, it's gone downhill.
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Regular Sunday reviewers, on the model of Cyril Connolly, the longtime critic for the Sunday Times , become trusted guides.
Cyril Connolly was longtime writer for the Sunday Times.
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