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As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors.
The local community will have to pay full price for PC's, modems, and teacher training.
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(Note to Hollywood Try to hire someone who looks like Lillian Hellman to be your husband's personal assistant.)
Hollywood needs to hire a personal assistant.
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Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades.
Talks are happening to figure out if he is likely to go on a tirade.
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The lead essay bemoans the replacement of objective, authoritative, Walter Cronkite-style news by opinionated, entertaining talk.
Walter Cronkite bemoans opinionated talk.
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On Saturday, Mainichi Shimbun devoted its main editorial to Britain's new defense cuts, pointing out that Britain expects to save 141 billion yen on its defense bill over the next three years, while Japan's defense expenditure continues to rise.
It's likely that Japan and UK will be at war soon
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It just means they're really, really serious about you.
Someone is not really really serious about someone.
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This is the mutual contempt, hinted at but not developed in this valuable book, that haunts us today.
The valuable book never talks about the mutual contempt that is still around.
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(The of supranational NGO lobbying in general is analyzed by Jessica Mathews in the January/February Foreign Affairs .) Thus the old left, intentionally or not, is pushing us from national regulation to supranational regulation--albeit, in this case, a kind of private-sector supranational regulation.
Jessica Mathews has never analyzed any magazine articles.
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Don't fight over small issues.
They are fighting over minor problems.
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In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole.
News Corp. is building a national competitor to HBO by stringing together a series of local sports networks.
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Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.
Ferraro never got the Crossfire job.
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It would take only one-tenth of one second to download a Slate article via ADSL.
ADSL can only download one slate article in five minutes.
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By the way, an old corporate pro once told me never to discuss anything of importance in a bathroom or an elevator.
They said it was okay to talk at lunch, though.
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Dentistry is a hassle now because it works.
Dentistry can be a pain now.
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The New York Times offered moral indignation
The New York Times prefers to avoid publishing moralistic articles
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It's not like we want it by mid-February.
It is expected by mid-February, and otherwise we will sue.
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The RPH has hidden literary talents.
Hidden literary talents are held by RPH.
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I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it.
I have written commentary for American and international periodicals.
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An article accuses the press of overlooking John McCain's domestic-policy gaffes.
The Arizona Senator's mistakes were not his fault..
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Morris' small-bore ideas, as he calls them, made the presidency look somewhat ridiculous in 1995 and 1996.
Morris' small-bore ideas were a great success in 1995 and 1996.
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Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.
Bush was about to laugh when talking about the economy.
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I spent 10 years in commercial aviation with two U.S. flag carriers and offer the following comments based on that experience.
My comments only include my first year of experience in commercial aviation.
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2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus.
The Antichrist is supposed to resemble a Catholic person.
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I hear you, she said by way of introduction.
Her greeting startled me.
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As in their Ed Wood (1994) and The People vs.
Ed Wood was innocent.
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Why should the pro-gamblers cooperate with a critical study?
The study investigates gambling problems and how it relates to alcoholism.
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We've come a long way together from Strom Thurmond's ass (which, while not free, is surprisingly affordable), and if online technology were not in its infancy, right about now I'd be buying you all a round of free-range rug shampoo.
They would buy shampoo for rugs for everyone if online tech was more advanced.
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Despite all the completely compelling arguments offered in the preceding paragraphs, it would be silly and dishonest to insist that
The preceding paragraphs and compelling arguments.
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An accident 40 times worse than Chernobyl is possible.
Mishaps worse than Chernobyl happen often.
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On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).
The band plays other groups music.
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We've collected all of Harry's O.J. Dispatches into one gargantuan Microsoft Word (and Adobe Acrobat) document that will you can dowload by clicking here.
You will not be able to access any of Harry's Dispatches.
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On the 10 th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, we often refer to that event in shorthand as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The liberation of Eastern Europe, is also known as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Instead, Bradley repudiates the word.
The word was repudiated by Bradley.
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Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted nay on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.
Among other things, the bill would have increased the minimum wage by $1.50 per hour.
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We must only hope that our Pakistani friend does not get to sound too much like the aforementioned Mr. Russert--or any of the other Sabbath gasbags, to use the phrase that the wonderful Frank Rich has popularized.
Our Pakistani friend popularized the phrase Sabbath gasbags.
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Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games.
Stadium construction was halted due to a lack of funds from team owners.
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Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off.
Degas has remained a long time friend for many years.
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This path has been smoothed by the nihilism of those Arab intellectuals--including Said--who prefer utopian dreams to a view of politics as the art of compromise.
The Arab intellectuals are seen as nihilist who don't prefer to utilize politics as a means to reach compromise.
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Since Yugoslavia's disintegration, Franjo Tudjman, a right-wing dictator, has exploited Croatian nationalist sentiments.
Franjo Tudjman, the dictator who ruled in Croatia, was from the left-wing
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Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose?
Victims are afflicted by an increasing number of allergies.
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Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed.
Those who had not signed up have been removed from the lists.
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[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them.
Some of them.
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Idealists don't like the way it's being fought.
Idealists have an understanding of how it is being fought.
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Cold Warriors like Kissinger hardly argued that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended Soviet credibility.
Kissinger publicly lauded how the Cuban Missile Crisis ended widespread believe in Soviet dependability.
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Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article.
Debating the post-colonial era sensibly is not the point of this article.
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They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check.
The cars they drive are Maserati's.
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The first question to ask is what the right thing would have been.
There are a total of three questions.
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Broder and Waas say they have spoken with two ex- Spectator employees who anonymously corroborate Mann and Rand's assertion that the Arkansas Project paid Hale.
Two ex-Spectator employees corroborate Mann and Rand's assertion.
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Consider the opening to The End of the World, which introduces an angry son who, as the story goes on, will be called to Paris to care for a selfish dying
The son losses his anger over time in The End of the World.
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He did not, however, suggest that everybody follow his example.
He never thought people should listen to his examples.
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I've always said that victory is the best exit strategy.
Leaving the game while I'm ahead is my top priority.
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As was the case with Reebok, Hilfiger's pursuit of the minority market has exposed him to a backlash (it's probably no accident that Lauren, whose turf he invaded, was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story).
Hilfiger was repercussion free in his pursuit of the minority market.
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Another answer is to promote civic virtue.
Civic Virtue is the best answer.
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The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.
The result is not specific at all, but more generalized.
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She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement.
He was trusted by her and her colleagues in regards to wining peace with no appeasement.
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Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com.
All of the voters discuss referenda on vote.com.
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Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.
Neither newsweeklies cared about the cities.
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You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
The claims of piety and recklessness against Clinton are immaterial and baseless.
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The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.
Switzerland made the boycott illegal.
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The Progressive Policy Institute's Rob Shapiro, who invented the concept of corporate welfare before Reich gave it a name, has identified $300 billion worth.
Reich invented the concept of corporate welfare.
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Some medical ethicists and constitutional scholars say that the Supreme Court was wrong to create the pre-viability/post-viability distinction in the first place.
Citizens generally agree that the Supreme Court was wrong to make this distinction.
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Maybe if I were gay, but I'm not.
The author doesn't like individuals of their same genre
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And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.
SurfWatch blocks sexually explicit material.
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Zeus, not surprisingly, fancies himself their leader.
Zeus believes he is a leader.
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Reply All, our experimental novel-by-e-mail written by three anonymous authors in three different cities, moves outside the subscription wall for a while, beginning today.
The authors did not reveal their name in the novel-by-email.
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Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.
It would be better to go through with it despite the pain.
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The leading semi-official daily Al Ahram said in an editorial Wednesday that the attacks some Iraqi officials had made on the Egyptian leadership will not deter Cairo from standing by the Iraqi people and trying to prevent further U.S. military action.
Egyptian leadership will continue to assist Iraqi citizens in preventing the U.S. military from taking further action against it's nation.
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The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too.
The absence of patients suing insurers would be a step in the right direction.
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Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine.
Rupert Murdoch owns the Standard.
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He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
His mind was to busy to think about about the agility needed by the passages.
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(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)
It's a blunder to make sweeping assumptions about us by using only a handful of special cases.
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Giuliani is clearly wrong in trying to stop the exhibit, but how many people defending the museum right now would be trying to shut it down if the art was offensive in other, even less acceptable, ways?
Giuliani enjoyed the art exhibit very much.
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Though this version of libertarianism seems to flirt with anarchism, Boaz isn't worried about disarray.
Boaz is correct that nothing bad will come out of it.
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According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales.
The decision made must be at Mr. Fayed's expense.
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Nero was emperor until 70 A.D.
Nero is releasing a hip hop album this year.
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The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.
Sino has a good relationship with the U.S.
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The agency can't really ensure their client's behavior, but you would know that it had done its very best to choose only well-behaved children.
They agency is said to have done their best to pick only well-behaved children.
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So I knew Browder as a somewhat gloomy but kind old gent who took a daily constitutional up the block to Nassau street, where he would buy me and Julie a package of Hostess cupcakes--the orange-flavored ones, with icing squiggles on top.
Browder had suffered from depressed for years and was very poor.
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Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court.
Savagery is okay in the eyes of the law.
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He opens people up by agreeing with them.
His personality makes others comfortable around him.
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And third, in the issue it published the following Monday, Newsweek included the full excerpt--which is where Brill found the out-of-context quote he claims Newsweek ignored.
Brill felt Newsweek gave a false account of his words in the excerpt.
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Similarly, the idea that Native American babies, or black babies, or whatever, have some mystical genetic affinity with their own kind is silly.
It's scientifically proven that babies can have a genetic affinity with their own kind
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America rescued him from minor cult status and gave him to the world (at a not-insignificant profit).
America would rescue him and simultaneously profit.
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The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign.
Bush's presidential campaign was the earliest start ever.
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He was too old, his back hurt too much, he had too many outside interests ...
He was an older man with pack pain.
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The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.
The league is young and cannot afford any more problems.
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I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology.
I believe some News Quiz participants were out of line and should be apologizing.
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Success in Ireland just proves that the World's Only Superpower must intervene more frequently, say Kristol, Steve Roberts, and George Will ( This Week ). A few pundits stress potential pitfalls along the road to peace.
The road to peace, according to pundits, will be free of problems.
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AS PART OF HER DYING WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE
She had never used any form of internet.
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A couple of serious Before removing any components, you must save copies onto a floppy disk.
Components must be copied onto a floppy disk before removal.
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There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget.
The administration has made it clear they are aware of mea culpa.
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An accident 40 times worse than Chernobyl is possible.
Mishaps worse than Chernobyl can happen.
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But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results.
Witztum and Rips are critics of published books.
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In this particular case, the buyers come to Las Vegas to purchase the goods rather than having them shipped out of the city, but the economics are the same.
The buyers fear the economics change if goods are shipped out of Las Vegas.
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The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information.
I disclosed every bit of specific information in the conversation.
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The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region.
The US Navy was sent into the area in response.
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Perhaps, then, corporate rebirth is a fitting tag line.
Corporate rebirth is a poor choice for a catch phrase.
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I find it interesting that Alfred Gingold, in Onward, Christian Clothiers, doesn't have a problem with pro-abortion T-shirts or vulgar T-shirts (shit happens, coed nude basketball, bitch on wheels, etc.) but finds it necessary to tee off on evangelical Christian apparel.
Gingold doesn't have a problem with vulgar T-shirts.
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The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf.
The stories come from only a small amount of right wing people.
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I maintained throughout the Reagan years that appearances was a dodge for accusers and malefactors alike.
During the Reagan years everyone maintained strict honesty.
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