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All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost.
The Compost still contains past articles and features.
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Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society.
I was accepted into another equivalent society.
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Perhaps, then, corporate rebirth is a fitting tag line.
The tag line is not the best one available.
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However you fiddle with the rates, there will always be a perceived penalty on somebody.
The American public all want rates to go down.
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(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.)
The other seats in parliament are to filled in fair elections.
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Sportscaster Marv Albert denied charges that he had assaulted and sodomized a female acquaintance.
Marv Albert committed a sexual crime
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We have to try to do something about the real world in which children are growing up.
The children want to be evolved in doing something to make a change.
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One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.
People's phone bills are charged for schools and libraries to have books.
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Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.
The author tries to bring importance to the job of a critic.
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I felt like a moron for not being able to figure this out myself.
I felt stupid for not figuring it out myself.
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It's bread and circuses without the bread.
Now it is only bread.
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Graves hid out in the deep woods.
Graves stood in the middle of the desert.
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After they're caught, they disappear for awhile, then re-emerge, apologize for their venality (usually to Larry King), and retake their place in the pantheon.
They never say they are sorry.
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A related piece, based on polls, says that Americans back gay rights in theory but dislike public displays of gay affection.
American's dislike gay affection in public.
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But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism school.
Doris Day’s outfits were always boisterous and loud and took the form of entertainment apparel.
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The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and This Week experiencing pronounced ratings increases.
The scandal has caused the media business to lose money in their printed materials.
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A shocking number of his recent articles are based on something he saw on television.
He based his recent articles on magazines.
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One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam.
Newts changes are viewed more favorably by republicans.
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Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage.
The show mistreats its workers.
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They take on a cartoonish, uniform cheeriness.
They take on a chaotic spell of happiness.
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Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl.
Phil Knight, chief of Nike, has been praised for the child labor policies of his company
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Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).
Lee prepares all his meals by himself
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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.
Iraqi officials have given their support in favor of the actions taken by Egyptian leadership, and says that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.
David Plotz firmly believed that Winnie-the-Pooh was Japanese.
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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.
Strom Thurmond's ass is very expensive.
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Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.
Half of the people did not vote for Arafat in the election.
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Of course the information-technology sector has been wonderfully successful--but that is because it has been in a position to exploit the extraordinary possibilities offered by photolithography, not because of any special virtue in the way it operates.
The information-technology sector has just recently become popular.
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The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.
Republicans should reject a plea bargain for the best course of action.
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Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
New York is resplendent with significant history.
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Now I find I hate returning e-mails.
I receive emails and dislike replying to them.
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In BeauSeigneur's novels, the Antichrist is Jewish, for sure, but he's also a man who was produced in a lab by misguided scientists using cells taken from the Shroud of Turin.
The Antichrist was a devout Catholic.
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From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire.
Dunn and Rice begged Bush's wife to try to survive the campaign so their husbands had a chance to be elected also.
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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.
A liberal columnist familiarized the phrase Sabbath gasbags.
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, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it.
Gore held back in his critique of Bush.
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We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful.
The journals who attacked Richard Nixon always respected the law.
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Last year the British publication of these never-published 39 poems occasioned accusations of misogyny, sordidness, and racism (one of the poems is titled King Bolo and his Big Black Kween).
The poems that were not published were very offensive.
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The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
The state introduced more free policy.
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Now they admit they were wrong.
Someone mentioned that they had not been correct last week about their statments.
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This is too bad, because Pokemon is undoubtedly much smarter and more charming than what will supplant it.
The author dismisses Pokemon as stupid.
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If you go, don't forget to buy the illuminating book by its curator, Valerie Steele.
Valerie Steele has written more than one book.
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Starr is much more likely to be interested in Steele herself and in why she changed her story.
Starr has been following Steele's story very closely.
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This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.
This is also mentioned in the 2000 edition.
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Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.
The complaint is irrational.
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Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters.
Bill Clinton visited Boston to get away from his impeachment.
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Not as big a deal as the Pulitzers yet, but in the ballpark.
At one point it was a bigger deal than the Pulitzers, but not yet.
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Frankly, I think the Jamaican Tourist Board should go back to that old 'Come Back to Jamaica' slogan.
The author is supportive of the current slogan, and dislikes the old one.
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The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.
He began crying during the movie and couldn't stop.
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' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
I recall that perfectly.
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Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress.
Sometimes Monica brags because she gets something really unique
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) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost.
Lafferty always reacted in the same manner, when dealing with Tinsley
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A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence , the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly.
Skeptics doubt that Albright is atheist.
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It'd be nice to know more about that trend.
That trend is widely known and followed
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A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
There was a dispute over the owning of Zapruder's film of the assassination of JFK.
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Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.
The News Quiz participants are boring and uninterested in participating.
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The wrist supporters I ordered were black neoprene with a metal brace and a flexible magnetic band.
The author wanted metal support on their wrist supporters, the magnets were just an added bonus.
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Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely.
Being outspoken GOP supporters, the donors love to spill the beans on the issue.
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How come you give George a pass?
I think George is too arrogant to deserve a pass.
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In 1995, Willey took revenge on a lover named Shaun Docking by faking a pregnancy and miscarriage and asking Steele to lie about it.
Willey had no remorse when it came to the lie.
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On other questions as well, U.S. officials use fatalism and objective language to minimize American responsibility and rule out options.
Officials in the US can have nefarious motivations.
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These are the Most nominees are confirmed smoothly.
These nominees encountered difficulties.
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Upon returning to Apple, he began criticizing almost immediately the company's 1995 decision to finally allow a limited number of companies to manufacture Mac clones, calling these firms leeches.
He agreed with the decision to let others produce Mac clones.
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Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours!
If Lucinda would only write her will, he would be hers.
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Your wanderings on the Web leave more footprints than you may realize.
Web browsing create a lot of footprints than you may realize.
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The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights.
Gay people had almost no rights before the ruling.
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Why didn't Ellison finish--or publish--the book?
Ellison eventually finished the book.
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His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services.
This policy has been redacted by a democrat
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The cover story says that megabillionaire and stock-picking legend Warren Buffett has quietly shifted his focus from buying individual stocks to purchasing companies.
Buffet has individual stocks.
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More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light.
The market's correction is not what it seems like at first.
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It seems no one can stand this, and whenever we encounter friends or relatives, they invariably ask personal questions to try to get each of us to speak ill of the other.
Our family is bored and want to see drama.
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How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Jail cells are viewed as a reward.
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These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage.
The gambling will have an influential but not overly dominating presence over the government.
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Second, the whole fiasco was the best thing that could have happened to the firm.
The firm experienced a disaster.
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Why, if Isikoff's so bad?
Isikoff is good.
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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.
Any discussion of the post-colonial era will devolve into a heated argument.
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The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.
Alicia is not obligated to return the alleged sum of money to Martin.
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You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.
There are tools which are available to enhance viewing and accessibility.
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He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.
Noticeably, the vehicles are all Fords as the company sponsored the movie.
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Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.
The DSM is harmed by social values warping the accounts.
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Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship.
He has a history of rebellious actions.
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That leaves Case 1. But if you believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of your fabulously wealthy grandchildren, you must also believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of Bill Gates.
Rich public figures have nothing in common with rich private figures.
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The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy.
Al Gore's strategy includes winning the Presidency with less than 270 electoral votes, possibly 250.
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Third, the woman serves the man's need to be needed.
The man serves the woman's need to be needed.
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The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany.
The disrespecting of current position holders will come to them as a shock.
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They're regular old spending that Republicans happen not to like, such as support for the International Monetary Fund and highway demonstration projects in Democratic districts.
Republicans support the highway demonstration project wholeheartedly.
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They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating.
To them, the manipulation was the best part of politics.
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Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.
The long standing Soviet empire is as prosperous now as it was in the 80's
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Biblical overtones--the tale of Jacob and Laban--bubble up from Malamud's simplicity.
Holy implications arise from the author's easy way of writing.
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But there are several pharmacological and social differences that reduce the relevance of rat research to social policy.
Multiple rats are used in most research projects.
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That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!
That would cause a lot of excitement.
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In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race.
Interracial marriage was frowned upon in the South in 1963.
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May the people forever keep you in their memory, Day as beautiful as glory, Cold as the tomb!
Tombs are being described as cold.
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Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.
Boasting is the main focus of this period.
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They seem to think that junk food qualifies as their half of the groceries.
They are probably right to think that junk food qualifies for their half of the groceries.
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The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.
The nonsmoking table could be located inside or outside.
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So why persist in newspaper reading?
Newspapers are read.
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Saturated fat is still evil.
Saturated fat is bad for health.
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The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.
The international banking connections used helped to make the Degas family very wealthy.
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
According to the Enquirer, the girl called Sawyer's office to inform them about the gunmen.
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That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity.
Productivity and efficiency would be rewarded.
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Here's the way one investment industry correspondent--who prefers to be nameless--put it to me.
The investment industry correspondent was very knowledgeable about the tech industry.
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