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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.
House prosecutors said the public supported them.
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Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.
Nebbish never made it into the English language thanks to 50's TV stars.
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The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
The author wants to panic.
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--DeParle refers to Milwaukee's growing homeless shelter population, but doesn't give any figures on how much it's growing.
Deparle didn't state how fast the homeless population was growing.
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So, how did Caltech come out on top?
Caltech is about at the same level of the MIT
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scientific (something about string theory and tangles?)
The statement is referring to strings on a guitar.
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Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.
Parents don't want their children returning to the nest.
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
Rothko could be suffering from depression.
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He is much more heartfelt about prison reform than about Wachtler reform.
He was more hearftfelt about Wachtler reform than he was prison reform.
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People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.
The judgement made tend to be cynical and merciless
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In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.
The focus of this liberal program should away shift from the poor and toward all taxpayers.
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Physicians will unionize against managed care.
Physicians will unionize for managed care.
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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.
Not all aspects of government are currently strong.
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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.
The fast e-mail format is quite popular with club members.
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Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them.
They need to be listened to.
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The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago.
The Times has always remained on the Internet.
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Is it Simhat Torah again already?
Simhat Torah occurred once and then never again.
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The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides.
Everyone loved the Republicans on the Hill- issue 2.
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Over the following week or so I tracked the 20 to 30 auctions for Unreal that were going on, and I eventually won a copy for $18.
The author won one of the auctions one day.
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The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.
Not every department offered valuable feedback.
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His viewing procedures are quite advanced.
His process is advanced.
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It's silly that this is all such a guessing game.
The fact that this is a guessing game is ridiculous.
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AS PART OF HER DYING WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE
She wrote the chain letter about herself to say goodbye.
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Or, better yet, he should build houses for the poor under the supervision of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter should be overseeing him constructing homes for the poor.
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And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase dumbing down or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates all spoke in full sentences, in iambic pentameter, in Latin, while wearing complicated wigs and fancy hats and several layers of underwear with fastenings so elaborate you had to be like a genius just to undress for one of your Naked Fireside Chats from the Aero White House, a giant dirigible moored to Zelda Fitzgerald.
The questions on game shows are too easy these days.
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It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.
The campaign was a huge success.
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For all I know, some hockey fans go for the fights.
Some hockey fans go to the games just for the fights.
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Reporters tried to provoke Bush into making news or embarrassing his hosts, while ignoring the social policy issues on his agenda.
It was impossible for the reporters to provoke Bush.
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( explains what Greenspan really said.)
Greenspan spoke in short and simple terms that were easily understood..
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The Washington Post reported that for $5,000, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is offering donors a chance to give Trent Lott and other senators advice at a forum next month.
One can pay $5,000 to offer advice to senators.
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In a culture where Xena and Hercules have hit TV shows, it's a lot more fun imagining that you are a valiant warrior doing business-as-battle than it is to admit that you're a pudgy functionary whose most daring deed is to draft a boldly worded memo.
Most people are fine admitting they work boring, soulless jobs.
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The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.
The WP published an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths.
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The idea, Leger claimed, was to prove that machines and fragments of them, that ordinary manufactured objects, have plastic possibilities.
The movement of the machines is destined to remain awkward and unharmonious
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This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women.
The company I work for is conservative.
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It also creates a presumption that it will be treated.
The idea about it being treated soon is almost certain to be true.
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By contrast, Mundell's writings since the early '70s have been discursive, one might almost say rambling, and often reveal a sort of hankering for the lost certainties of the gold standard.
It was hard to follow much of what Mundell said in his writings, which caused individuals to look upon them with contempt.
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A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.
Newsweek tells the story of the slave days of India that are happening now.
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The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.
The statistical work within The Bell Curve helped to propel the study forward and shine light on the issues that it discusses.
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A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
The United States did not provide any comments when questioned about a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant that it bombed last year, amidst claims that it was producing chemical weapons and that it was also linked to Osama Bin Laden.
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Dexfenfluramine (tradenamed Redux), a cousin of fenfluramine, was just released.
Redux the brand name drug was priced so low, it will never have generic competition.
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Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one.
Tobey was sometimes mistaken as one of the bums he was sketching at Pike Place Public Market.
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The old conventional Sibelius was a vulgar nationalist (a la Wagner) and a windy Romantic bore.
Wagner is old and a romantic bore.
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Physicians will unionize against managed care.
Physicians have always wanted unmanaged care.
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Part of the answer may be that our financial system has become dangerously efficient.
The efficiency of our financial system is not primary reason
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When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.
She refused to commute and would discuss ideas over Zoom calls.
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Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.
A child that's lost a parent will feel helpless, no matter their status in life.
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On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle.
Tom was in the vehicle with Jack and John
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He would take notes on his yellow pad and sum up the sense of our meetings in an orderly manner, as he had always done.
He liked to take his notes with a blue pen.
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You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?
They are looking for excitement, even if it means taking too much medication.
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These rapacious European phone monopolies have given birth to independent call-back services.
Call-back services save time.
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The overlapping dialogue and squealing Cuban-African music heard over tinny-sounding radios seems meant to induce a migraine to accompany the seasickness.
The music was playing over the outdoor speakers on the cruise ship.
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Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.
Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald often are in the same location.
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According to Helen Lawrenson, a former Vanity Fair editor and Johnson's self-proclaimed ex-lover, this is a romantic view of him.
Lawrenson believes that this position romanticizes him.
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Lauderdale at spring break--and notes that the vote for the Nixon inquiry was 410-4, not the 256-178 tally for the Clinton inquiry.
The vote for the Nixon inquiry was different than that for the Clinton inquiry.
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Newsweek also hints that 13 Heaven's Gate members--the ground crew--may be traveling through the Southwest, waiting for a signal from the spaceship.
The Heaven's Gate members also travel through the Midwest.
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Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby.
Those from past generations, have noticeable scars from different kinds of non-life-threatening-diseases.
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In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?
Washington DC prohibits all foreign visitors.
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Visually we wanted to create a little bit of hope, a transition to the rest of the spot and the HRC logo, which picks up and repeats the color.
The people reacted well to seeing hope in the logo.
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Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off.
We are no longer friends with Degas.
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The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.
The proposal was introduced after the $750 tax credit plan was voted out.
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He'd probably pick it up in his fillings.
The fillings were done by a dentist of great skill.
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But Milosevic, in turn, may have underestimated Clinton's agility.
Clinton is very agile.
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4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams.
The superstar will take a pay cut.
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lowest-ranked playoff team in their division ever to accomplish this feat.
They still reached the playoffs despite being lowly ranked in their division.
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Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does discuss gay life spans, but cites as its authority ...
The subject of the discussion was heterosexuality.
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In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.
Sawyer thinks she didn't influence this decision
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The idea of a nation of stockholders is appealing but, in practice, the plants' old Soviet-style managers gained control.
The managers fully embraced the new ideas that were put forth, and no longer followed in the old Soviet-style of oversight.
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Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies.
It's improbable that the lawyers would twist the facts.
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Our loyal opposition on the right used to tell us that a man can do anything with his property.
With the opposition no longer believing in the freedom of a person to do what they want with their property, it has caused quite the legal and political battle between our party and theirs over the last few terms.
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Tobacco growers managed to avoid that fate last year.
Tobacco growers had a horrible year last year.
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He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.
He has many friends in Iowa to e-mail.
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Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there.
Holly Brubach writes about of broad range of interest including art, fashion, culture, and dance.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
The top court didn't say anything about the first amendment being used to protect rich people.
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It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
It is unlike backlash's showy nature.
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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.
To clamp down on compulsives is cost effective.
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This is why managed care is a genuinely confusing Should voters believe the anecdotes, which are real and horrifying, or should they accept the evidence that people are mostly happy with their own insurance, happy to be paying less, and as healthy as they have ever been?
Voters are forced to accept the evidence that people are happy with their own insurance.
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(Remember, they weren't Time Warner fans prior to the AOL deal.)
They have loved Time Warner since it was founded.
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But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes).
They would continue to grow in influence within the region, and help to bring about the settlement of further disputes between neighboring countries.
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(Clinton to We're basically following your game plan.
The president has an idea to put into action.
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Novak cut Hunt off only twice.
Novak interrupted Hunt twice so he could correct something Hunt stated.
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How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles?
I am wrong 20% in most articles.
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But in both cases, the feds can help.
Relying on the feds in these cases is ill-advised.
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Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.
Both can agree that Monday Night Football is one of the 10 best.
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The explanation is partly the frog-in-hot-water phenomenon (he'll jump out if you drop him in boiling water, but not if you put him in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling).
Slowly heated frogs jump out of the pot.
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mean is we moved closer, in,
We moved further out.
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The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.
John F. Kennedy Jr. dated Daryl Hannah before they broke up.
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(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.)
NBC site gets updated every 5 minutes
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The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you.
It is exciting for you when you are thinking about farming canines.
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Aprimary argument against same-sex marriage is that marriage is an institution for the raising of children.
Raising children is the main argument against same-sex marriages.
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Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.
Being homosexual doesn't cause any grilling ever
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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.
Those who work in marketing have upset eager developers over the years.
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I felt like a moron for not being able to figure this out myself.
I could figure it out by myself.
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The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor.
Kennedy did not do the best in school but was a great prosecutor.
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But if so, this was self-delusion on a really impressive scale.
This may be self-delusion.
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Time 's cover story celebrates Hip-Hop Nation and chronicles the genre's 20 year rise.
Hip Hop Nation has been on the cover of Time previously.
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Second, Finkelstein echoes conventional historical thinking when he says Nazism's main appeal lay in Hitler's promises to restore order in post-Weimar Germany, end unemployment, and make the country an international power.
Hitler's reign took place in post-Weimar Germany.
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A boxer cannot fight with a heart condition or dementia.
A boxer with a heart condition or dementia, must not fight.
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According to those who know him, he has learned why newspapers are a public trust since his unfortunate cereal interview.
His interview went very well.
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Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out.
An audience ain't going to listen to a politician drone on about their point of view of free trade.
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Crazy Richard Nixon and All That Jazz , by Leonard Garment (Times Books).
Leonard Garment's book was a success.
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