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Perhaps he's next on the FTC's hit list.
The FTC will be looking for a chance to apprehend him in the future.
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What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
The characters of an artist are cooperative without exceptions
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In response to one of the proposed symptoms, Spitzer's wife protested, I do that sometimes, and Spitzer responded, OK, take it out.
Spritzer agreed to take out the symptom when his wife argued against it.
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John McCain because he has become McCain's friend.
John McCain's friend supported him.
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The portion is tiny, the chicken is in rubbery cubes so uniform they barely look like food, and the noodles are all clumped together on one side.
The noodles are overcooked.
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The original Seattleites--the NW Indians--have become so Californian they're Nevadans.
NW Indians have been able to remain in their original homeland.
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Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.
Hippocrates thought a balance of the four bodily humors was the solution.
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But by the time Avis' employees bought the company, the new thinking was that there was no better way of encouraging their creativity and dedication.
Avis' employees did not have the chance to get a cost of living raise.
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Anyway, what would be the point?
The entire point to a task is wonderful.
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And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship.
The bear named after Winnie-the-Pooh is a brown bear
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It might be desirable for me to say nothing.
The person isn't thinking about their decisions.
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Some people insist they don't know what they think until they hear what they say.
People will create their beliefs ahead of time, thinking deeply before speaking.
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And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
Several levels of employees have high levels of need right now.
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If you can use viral marketing and Abercrombie & Fitch in the same sentence, you too can be a Gen Y pundit.
Abercrombie and Fitch has little to do with viral marketing.
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Alternatively, he could have used his address to the Christian Coalition last Friday to criticize religious intolerance.
He almost used his address to disapprove of religious intolerance.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The judge has already made his decision.
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Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he refused.
Sheen means to overdose.
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For people who are not immersed in recovery but are receptive to the notion of sex addiction, the president's dysfunction simply means that, like Ken Starr, he is out of control.
Sex addiction is a widespread problem.
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Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read.
I adored every word of Plotz's article.
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I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap.
The person would be starting something new.
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He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate.
He fully supports the 2nd Amendment.
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When they married 20 years ago, the Globe reports, people said it wouldn't last.
People from 20 years ago did not think the marriage would last.
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The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need.
The same person designed the new sign.
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Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community.
The headlines include third person pronouns.
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The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.
Michael Isikoff told of a liaison between Kathleen Wiley and President Clinton.
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I have filters that keep me from being subjected to that sort of language in my e-mail.
I use custom filters that I set up myself.
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Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
The scientists believe surface oceans now provide these materials.
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How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.
Some students were building bombs instead of playing baseball at Littleton.
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Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt.
The audience wanted to look up the woman's clothes.
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Albright says her parents expressed vivid recollections of childhood Easter and Christmas celebrations . These recollections may well have been true.
Albright's parents have many memories of childhood Christian holiday events.
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For Pundit Completists David Brock profiles Meet the Press host Tim Russert and surveys the competitive world of the pundit shows in this week's New York magazine.
This was not the first time Tim Russert was interviewed by New York magazine.
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A reporter from a major publication cornered me recently, and Nathan, I only have a couple of minutes.
I was stopped by someone from the journal.
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At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none.
Ken Starr lost all 11 legal battles.
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The neat 6:3:2 mathematical relationship among the price groups should be noted.
One can see a definite pattern among the price group.
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In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self- If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop.
Short term small trade surpluses are okay.
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Fashion is as acceptable in France as any imaginative work, and criticism about it has certainly flourished there.
Fashion is seen as art in France.
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(Could there be any other real answer?)
The author questions the possibility of imaginary answers.
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8) The common currency will help global corporations while stripping each European nation of its power to make its own destiny.
Some European nations want a global money system.
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The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains We stayed home.
Kathie Lee gave an interview to USA today.
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, the closure of a local factory), the benefits tend to be invisible because they're faraway or diffuse (e.g.
Given the distance of the benefits, a new method would be developed in hopes of making them more tangible.
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The Liberal Humanitarians are a product of the post-Cold War peace.
Liberal Humanitarians look to the Cold War for things that can be learned from it.
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That possibility has to do with the rapid-fire e-mail exchange format of Slate 's Book Club in which it appeared.
Slate's book club e-mail format moves slower than molasses in January.
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This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.
In the Cinderella teams history of having of tournaments this was the lowest.
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But I'm single, [so] I'm allowed to do that, I guess.
Getting divorced is unlawful in the United States.
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Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.
The 0.08 standard doesn't have a good reason to go with 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.
Mr. Fayed claims the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales
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Cholesterol isn't necessarily unhealthy, and margarine is as bad as butter.
Margarine increases cholesterol
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As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them.
There is a lot that a parole agents can do in order to keep criminals from reoffending.
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No way he'd be with her if this wasn't an instructional sex video!
The couple in the video is not equally attractive
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Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years.
Lifetime is having a new episode of Murder She Wrote this year for Christmas.
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One answer is that the speed with which sexy-sounding scientific ideas get picked up by popular culture is getting alarmingly from Physical Review Letters to the latest best seller by Tom Peters almost before you know it.
people pick up on scientific ideas that appeal to them.
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a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
This woman studied law
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria has taken zero lives.
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The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need.
The sign won an award for the prettiest sign ever.
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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 the New Republic.
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Newsweek 's longer piece likens this to swapping Katharine Hepburn for Whitney was revered for her practicality, whereas Fuller exudes buzz.
Newsweek's piece includes Whitney's practicality.
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Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
The PA's borders, meanwhile, were closed.
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When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework.
Dorothy Parker saw an exchange between current and future costs of the economy.
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In biotechnology, as in telecommunications, intellectual-property law remains at an embryonic stage.
Intellectual-property legislation has reached full maturity in biotech and telecom.
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' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.
We need more bombing, more forces, and less peace keepers to solve this problem.
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Rubin's relief for Americans has encouraged a moral hazard--an inducement for people to speculate excessively because they know the United States will rescue them.
The author dislikes Rubin's helping the United States.
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Furthermore, the filmed sequence closes out the event, and gives viewers an opportunity to shrug it off.
The viewer probably will shrug off the filmed sequence.
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Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate.
Orrin Hatch believes that the American public should be made aware of the felonies that a candidate commits.
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But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background.
Media outlets are reporting on Albright's ethnic background.
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Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract.
Welles worked on Touch of Evil.
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Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries.
The treaty's logistics might be improved a lot by using third parties inspectors
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Pouring their hearts out to reporters is the only therapy Republican politicians can get.
Republicans do not enjoy placating reporters.
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But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting a party, meaning the Conservative Party.
Boulaye had actually shown support for the Conservative Party.
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Time 's James Collins calls it pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun, and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker calls it a solid weekly soap opera.
None of the reviews were positive.
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Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true.
The accusations against Clinton lack truth and plausibility.
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But skeptics suggest a darker that the Lippo fee was a payoff to Hubbell to keep quiet about Whitewater.
Hubbell took hush money to not speak about Whitewater.
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If a Milosevic knew with reasonable certainty that ethnic cleansing would be prevented and punished, he might not attempt it.
Milosevic thought that ethnic cleansing was preventable and punished.
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He was 65 at the time.
It would've been silly to call him a spring chicken.
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The rounded slinky movements of the dancelike kata looked specifically designed to develop grace, coordination, and balance.
The kata was extremely ungraceful.
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Yes, he's an asshole-junkie, but, in the capable hands of Michael Imperioli, he is not only He is a cursing, bitch-slapping metaphor for the entire decline of the mob.
He is a clean and sober individual.
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Our powerful, multipurpose computers will continue to become even more powerful, but as they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--their appeal will be limited by their price.
Voice recognition is expensive to develop.
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If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content.
Dexter doesn't believe King will be happy.
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For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas.
Suppose you purchased a Beanie Baby for your daughter.
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Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.
Editorialists want laxer laws dealing with food.
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Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?
Institutional investors are naive counterparts.
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Recognizing that the Internet effectively wipes out national borders, and fearing that the development of new technologies may be impeded by inconsistent tax policies, the federal government has been studying the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.
The government has been studying internet transactions.
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She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ...
She was married.
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Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate.
Clinton, Gingrich and Starr held a grudge.
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I particularly enjoyed your colored sky; a nice choice, blue, popular, everybody likes that blue.
The sky blue color you chose is well-liked.
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Her last husband, and manager, George Richey, was more than overcome by her death.
They were still married.
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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 song was earning him $25,000 per month
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Anglicans are particularly aggrieved by the no-Protestants policy.
The no-Protestants policy was accepted by the Anglicans.
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(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.)
This habit have been perpetuated with the hot weather
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The editor published the study to help Clinton.
The study was inteded by the editor to be of assistance to Clinton.
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There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.
People in the Libertarian Party are close-minded.
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Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet!
A bullet for a tiny weapon costs more than two apples
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Journalists, after all, expose these practices--we do not commit them.
The information provided is frequently correct.
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You know, everything has to be robust a robust foreign policy, a robust national defense, a robust air attack on Serbia, a robust police crackdown, a robust anti-drug policy, a robust investigation of abuses.
The author argues that all aspects, including homeland security, can be downplayed.
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The final rooms feel like classrooms, with lessons hammered home.
Final rooms feel like classrooms because this is where you show what you know.
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Your advice to struck me as amazing.
The advice was the worst the person had ever gotten.
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But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.
Gerth made a big deal out of the problems in the story, even though it is simple.
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The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.
The pictures were very sound
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It happened here about 2.1 billion years ago.
This was the location of the event that happened approximately 2.1 billions years ago.
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60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.
Antwerp is more expensive to call, even though it's 5 miles away.
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In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA.
A few fiscal conservatives agree with the free-trade agreements.
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