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I think your first instinct, that children should address adults in the manner in which the adults ask to be addressed, is absolutely dead on.
The author's sentiment is shared with children.
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The New Yorker began offering . Brown did her producing buzz to fuel circulation.
Brown worked for the New Yorker.
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You were a former police officer, and yet you got caught setting up and dealing methamphetamine .
The man went to jail for a long time.
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I am ready to redeem him!
Redemption is impossible for him.
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Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could.
My brothers have zero desire to stop smoking.
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Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.
Coretta was an executive at a Fortune 500 company.
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Along with Mad magazine, he provided comedy to my suburban boyhood--Schulz the philosophical and Mad the topical--at just the right intellectual level for a suburban boy.
Mad magazine has served as an influence to suburban boys before the author's time.
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The second reference to bumfuzzled was in History of the Life of Rev.
Bumfuzzled was referenced only once time.
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So if we really want to pull every possible moral out of our story, we should think about the other people whose interests are at stake when you decide to buy a house.
The author argues to be mindful about others' interests when buying a house.
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Investors can decide not only that Microsoft owes its success to the abuse of monopoly power, and not only that the courts will strip the company of this ability, but that Microsoft doesn't know any other way to survive.
It is the investors decision not only that Microsoft's success is owed to monopoly power abuse, and not only that the company will be stripped of this ability by the courts, but also that Microsoft knows no other way to survive.
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The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.
Honda Accords have a high resale value.
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Croatia analysts surmise that HDZ is keeping Tudjman alive as a campaign strategy.
The HDZ is keeping Tudjman in a jail cell.
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And, clearly, everyone knew the facts of the matter today.
Clearly everyone was ignorant of the facts of the matter today.
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Because the $50,000 prize to be announced July 29 is for the artist's whole oeuvre and not the work submitted for the show, I would award it, if forced to choose, to South African William Kentridge, who is known for powerful , many with anti-apartheid themes.
Kentridge is famous for his racist art pieces demanding segregation.
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They're interested in the clash of personalities.
They are doing a study on personalities.
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Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length.
Crime episodes usually last about 60 minutes
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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.
He went back to a simple system of pigments.
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A couple of serious Before removing any components, you must save copies onto a floppy disk.
Floppy disks are outdated and thus unusable.
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7 million in the Los Angeles Times and over $3 million by the other major papers.
One of the other major papers was the New York Times.
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Kanter's price for 100 note-sized sheets and envelopes on Crane's paper is $166 ($1.
Kanter's price for 100 note-sized sheets and envelopes was quite pricey.
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In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.
All European-Americans revere their ethnic traditions.
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Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.
The views didn't thought the show was unmoral.
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Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.
I loved all things Linux and math even as a youngster.
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As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate.
Zeus can not escape his fate.
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What's to gain?
There could be something to gain.
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At various points in the film, Harrer thinks longingly of Rolf and writes him letters.
In the film, Harrer sees Rolf as an adversary and wants to destroy him.
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Whether the voters deserve it or not, we're likely to hear a lot more in coming spots about which man is better--or worse.
There was lots of news coverage that displayed each candidate and the qualities that they each extol and bring to the table.
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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.
The woman is searching for the man that made her pregnant
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Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them.
Tripp's lawyers gave the tapes to reporters who asked.
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Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).
The recital was held at Very Fisher Hall instead.
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I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
The other co-author is my wedded partner.
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A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.
The Independent Gay Forum proclaims itself separate of the left and right politics
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If you do know what cookies are and have set your computer not to accept them, our password/sign-in process won't work for you.
The password should work just fine even if you don't accept any cookies on your machine.
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He's a schemer, a politician, a calculating populist who has built his career on sexy, attention-getting issues.
He has tried to avoid attention-getting issues for his entire career.
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They end up on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired . They foreshadow the world in which we're all either symbolic analysts or hamburger flippers.
Analysts and burger flippers got on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired.
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Perhaps we are now seeing a new social phenomenon--trophy kids.
Trophy kids will replace trophy wives.
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We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use.
Because there haven't been sensible conversations about drug use, we don't have sensible drug policies.
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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.
Student attendance was insignificant to world views on gays and women.
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But these individual successes can't disguise the very curious reality that we're living in a world that is somehow saturated by the media without actually paying all that much attention to it.
Media is everywhere whether or not anyone consumes it.
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So, to pose the obvious Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?
The nebbish seems inherently Jewish.
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You might end up with such a brave battalion of heroes that when a grenade lands in their midst, there is a competition to see who gets to jump on it to save the others.
The men are very brave and willing to sacrifice themselves for others.
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But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results.
The skillset used in this art was complex.
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What makes Linux enthralling from a tech-head's point of view is that it is based on Unix standards that have been around for decades.
Unix's standards remained the same in a long time
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(Belize and Gibraltar are best, because they don't recognize American divorce judgments.)
It's easier to get a divorce in Belize and Gibraltar because they do not recognize American divorce judgments.
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Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually.
Alternative therapies include acupuncture and homeopathic medications.
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Democrats complain that given the amount of time they spend with Geraldo, diGenova and Toensing can't possibly be doing their government job.
Democrats congratulate diGenova and Toensing on a job well done.
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Most people would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff.
Even if the payoff was especially large, people are reluctant to take the risk.
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At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty.
If true, the story of Bill Gates murdering Vince Foster would be huge for the journalistic industry.
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A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.
The woman admitted to never having found love.
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He became a devoted editor of George , which seems likely to founder in his absence.
He has been a dedicated editor of George.
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The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.
All folk recordings are broadly distributed.
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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.
NATO's action in Kosovo would be remembered by protesters in a harsh and unfavorable manner.
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There will be enough for everybody!
They ran out so some went without.
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This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.
Mainstream feminists of today are aware of how they're perceived in modern times, and have tried to shed light on their true image and focus of this era.
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Hoiles is a big slab of a man, now 33, a veteran but not a star.
There is a veteran named Hoiles, who was tiny and short.
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Finally, Pollitt and Sullivan are disappointed that Unauthorized
Sullivan is happy about being unauthorized.
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Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.
We need to have compassion in our competitions in the olympics.
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For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high.
Many of the men passed the drug tests with flying colors, yet were still denied parole.
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Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place.
The author doesn't treat animals as seriously as he should.
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Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous.
Chihuly has done a great job with marketing.
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Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude.
Their negative personalities is largely to blame for their issues.
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Someone asks the CNN guy, How are the ratings these days?
CNN has been having low ratings lately.
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Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon.
Many shops don't work full time during the weekend
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One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.
Cybill Shepherd has been betrayed by Robert Martin
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It's really cool to be postmodern and hip
The hip trend will last for long time
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The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.
Despite the resistance that Mahathir faced from his own people, his work in office has ultimately improved the nation.
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Even the detective hired by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to intimidate bimbos was a People's Detective!
The campaign was in 1980.
contradiction
[Monica] made him feel good about himself.
He felt poorly about himself because of Monica.
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After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston.
The review didn't cause a flood of peaceful letters and phone calls
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What will I impugn, if not motives?
She will always accept your motives.
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The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0.
Norway had once won the championship game.
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Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.
We need to have more aggression and trash talking in our competitions.
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Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one.
Tobey is preparing for his art gallery debut.
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Most people Prudie has observed tipping taxi drivers tack on a couple of bucks, no matter what the meter.
No one observed by Prudie tipped their taxi driver anything.
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The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks)
The Red-Tailed Hawks are Liberals Humanitarians
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News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.
News Quiz participants dislike greeting cards because they're insincere.
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Is this simply the nature of status--the rich will always find a way to distinguish themselves from the poor?
The rich will always think they are better than the poor.
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The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you.
The thought of farming any mammal, in fact, upsets you.
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He did not, however, suggest that everybody follow his example.
He told most people to follow his examples.
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The appeal lies partly in the weirdness of his obsessions (scantily clad little girls with penises), so pungently suggestive of an imagined world, says New York 's Mark Stevens.
The subject of the obsessions were extremely unusual.
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Which somehow doesn't seem to be the best way to prepare for the next decade.
There are better way to anticipate the next 10 years.
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If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things.
There's an endless plethora of meanings to you showing concern over that story.
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This time, they were looking for a candidate who knew how to speak the language of love.
Now they weren't searching for a choice.
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Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
Vaclav Havel, who was in New York, was close friends with Alexander Dubcek.
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I was greatly encouraged to see Michael Goff's proposal of a Microsoft fashion-upgrade strategy, titled Dressing Up the Nerds.
Dressing Up the Nerds is a Microsoft fashion-upgrade strategy proposal by Michael Goff.
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Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.
Michael Frisby worked for the New York Times.
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And those are just the towns along Lake Como.
Lake Como is far from population centers, residences and businesses
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The milk proponents offer a variety of responses as to why osteoporosis is far less common in the nonmilk-drinking world.
Milk lovers believe bone loss can be prevented by drinking milk.
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If you missed the links within this review, click for the of how critics dismissed a whole genre of social novels written by women ...
Critics ignored novels written by women.
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Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours!
Lucinda could write a song about anything and he may still be hers.
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A sidebar says Monica combed Gennifer Flowers' autobiography for tips on how to seduce the president.
In how to seduce a President, it was reported that Monica Lewinsky thoroughly looked through Gennifer Flowers autobiography.
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I noticed this as I was moving the furniture on the second floor back into the bedrooms.
I was too inebriated to notice anything while rearranging my chairs.
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Tripp has spent 26 years in this cocoon, which will enable her to retire on a handsome pension, based on the average of her three highest consecutive years of pay.
Tripp will live in the cocoon for a few more years.
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For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country.
Administrators of Colorado worked hard to make sure their state had the best SAT scores.
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While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.
The forth quality is worse than the first three, but not by very much.
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Charles Schulz need not fear death.
Charles Schulz shouldn't fear death because he's immortal
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Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton) may have to turn over documents and testify--a significant exception to attorney-client privilege.
Multiple factors indicate that Starr has a better case than it seems.
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Naturally, European governments want to tax call-back services out of existence.
The governments want to put the call-back services out of business.
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Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.
They sale things like this at the handmade market.
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But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.
He can't say he wasn't helped with his math homework by the best tutor.
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