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It's interesting to note that of the 21 pundits who held forth on tobacco legislation this weekend, only Jack Germond professes to currently being a smoker.
Jack Germond is the only professed smoker amongst the group of 21 pundits.
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And it gives a package of free collectibles to any Webmaster who picks up its banner.
The package includes a bobblehead of a computer geek.
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Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.
Hanson is a co-wrote the 1982 White Dog film.
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Go-Gurt rang up $37 million in sales during its first year of limited distribution.
Go-Gurt is a successful product, sold in a big number of grocery stores
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A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton.
Salinger had very little interest in TV shows and celebrities.
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Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too.
If it benefits one person, it will benefit everyone collectively.
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You look as hot as that pie, darlin', he said, glancing at the cleavage of her firm, young breasts, while her breath quickened with expectation.
The old hag wanted nothing to do with his advances.
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And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on.
Those who don't think human life is sacred haven't really thought about it very much.
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A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...
'Let us' is a phrase commonly used by leaders and preachers.
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Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.
Pollock had a single solid color palette.
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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.
But there was no better way of encouraging their dedication and creativity, was the new thinking by the time Avis's employees bought the company.
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to the credible evolution of what's really become of me.
I am still the same person as always because evolving is for chimps and chumps.
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The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Camden Yards' top deck and produced a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet, about eight rows closer than Arlington's.
The Orioles lowered the stadiums top deck by 100 feet.
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Cook might just as well be gambling on what color tie President Clinton will wear tomorrow.
Most of Cook's predictions are faulty, according to the author.
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' All of President Clinton's untruths, all of his lying under oath, if you will, about an extramarital relationship does not subvert the Constitution (Schumer).
President Clinton thought it was okay to tell lies.
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Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.
Abiding by the rules is a warranty of receiving the best possible treatment
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By these criteria Kinsey fares well.
Kinsey is struggling.
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And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust.
The forest would function for a symbol for female lust.
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Most alarmingly, convenience gambling exacts huge social costs in the form of addiction and financial hardship without providing any economic benefit.
Being trapped inside of the convenience gambling paradigm, will cause the recipient to lose everything that they have, which will then lead to an even worse fate.
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(Note to Hollywood Try to hire someone who looks like Lillian Hellman to be your husband's personal assistant.)
Lillian Hellman is good looking.
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13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring!
This teen is bored by people in his grade.
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Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.
The economic and global downfall of Yugoslavia can largely be attributed to Milosevic's work.
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The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).
The bones were the ones of a girl
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Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)
Chambers could have been paranoid but maybe not.
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Dutch World, where all sorts of fictional characters created by Edmund Morris come out to play with children of all ages!
Dutch World is Morris's greatest achievement.
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Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain.
Lehman states he is unaware of what pain feels like.
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They would need to maintain complete silence about it.
They know something they cannot share outside themselves.
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Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife.
He left his wife and it effected his backers financially.
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But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.
There is a correlation between women's menstruation and tides.
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I am surprised, Richard, that you find Faludi's characterizations of the male crisis to fit the British profile.
Faludi finds Richard's male crisis to fit the profile.
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We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
We who share interests are bored by each other.
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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.
It will have little effect on the public policy or any elections in the future.
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Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as pets, that's a personal choice.
You can believe pets are people.
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Or Morris could have contacted Dorothy Healey, who was the chair of the Southern California Communist Party during the '40s.
Healey was the chair of the Communist Party during the 30s.
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Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch].
He forgot to wear his watch.
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Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six.
All the other numbers are more evocative than the number six
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She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.
They are of this world.
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(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.)
The magazine rewarded high spending on revisions.
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The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.
The mafia's reign of terror has ended.
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We want to see it again.
The author refuses to see it anymore.
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I noticed this as I was moving the furniture on the second floor back into the bedrooms.
As I was pushing a couch, I noticed this.
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The 15-year-old died with the band playing on his headphones.
The 15-year-old miraculously survived.
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Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was terminated by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine.
Mehta's memoir covers the time he traveled to Iraq to fight in a war.
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Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space.
The attempt was to keep government out.
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One answer is that there is no honor among thieves--that the oligarchs are caught in a classic prisoners' dilemma, in which it is in the collective interest of the group that everyone pay some taxes, but in the individual interest of each oligarch to free-ride on the others.
Rich business leaders with political clout are stuck in a dilemma involving their own personal interests over the group's.
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After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.
No good reason exists for Smiley to attack the classic Twain novels.
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I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy.
The question is one joke which is cheap and easy blasphemy.
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The conservatives have managed to cast themselves as the scourge of pedophiles, insinuate that the president is soft on pedophilia, and link Clinton to a sub rosa campaign to lower the age of consent--and all this is based on a report that no one noticed until the Christian right uncovered it, that no one in the White House seems to have read, and that no one remotely linked to the Democratic Party or the White House has ever endorsed.
The conservatives and Clinton worked together on the issues of pedophilia.
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You can bet no one will ever elect me to public office.
Consequently I am resigning from my political pursuits.
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Especially now, when any investor can obtain almost perfect diversification with index funds and index options--and thus get the exact return of the market as a whole.
An investor puts money in index funds and index options.
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Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart.
Brahms and Mozart are not so close.
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From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.
Clinton completely embraced the common viewpoint
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Pol Pot is in captivity
Pol Pot is a captive.
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That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory.
The rat choice theory is correct.
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80 HK for a super-value meal and $6 HK for each Snoopy toy McDonald's sells.
The super-value meal and the Snoopy toy are McDonald's top sellers.
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If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point.
Only a few people think there point of view is irrelevant.
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What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.
There is not much of an organic flow to Meier's work.
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So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself.
eBay can explain the extravagant winner's curse.
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Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.
Monet was greatly inspired by his new find, and continued to work until he reached a state of satisfaction with his latest work.
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Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the entrepreneur as hero, the brand of me, and ever-lowering barriers to the flow of capital from market to market).
Brand and Toffler really understood modern cultural trends, although they didn't agree with them.
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Newsweek 's ninth health cover of the year warns that E. coli food contamination is more common than is reported and won't be eradicated with simple beef recalls like the one at Hudson Foods.
E. coli is the most common dangerous bacteria found in foods.
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None of the Jewish groups has reversed its support for Pollard's release.
The Jewish groups continue to support Pollard's release.
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Having endlessly debated the staying power of his '60s comic-strip sendups, most critics now conclude his art will last.
Nobody believed his comic strip sendups would last past the 1960's,
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The other holds a gun to your head every day.
Your life may be threatened every day.
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They called it the suicide package.
The package relates to death.
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It is hard to believe that people who have spent years, even decades, writing about economics are really so fuzzy-minded that they cannot see the difference between protecting consumers from tainted produce and protecting workers from competing products.
economists have written for years on the subject and yet they do not have a clear idea.
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Is that such a terrible thing?
The thing may be potentially lethal.
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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).
Mickey Kaus, who writes for Slate, contacts them.
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But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.
The museum is involved in the world of sports.
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Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse for telling falsehoods in the course of raising otherwise legitimate issues.
For telling falsehoods in the course of raising legitimate issues otherwise, Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse.
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That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.
You're asked to be actively involved by this
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For most quiz participants, the precarious venture that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.
A sinking political campaign or unsuccessful television series needed to be saved according to quiz participants.
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But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part.
Something was messed up.
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Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous.
Starr's virtues always remain positive.
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Before proceeding, write down or remember the directories where these files are found.
Is it possible to perform this task without having knowledge of the structure of the files
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Is the problem now more severe?
The problem has not yet been solved.
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Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it.
For the money spent, I want the rag.
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The coverage of her day in court was uniformly kind, rarely mentioning that she has lied before and changed her story now.
The woman was given the benefit of the doubt in the procedings.
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His work can no more be dispatched into some rubric like outsider art than that of Blake or Helderlin.
His work is more contemporary than that of Blake.
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Instead, McCain spends the evening attacking Bush.
McCain would not let up in his words, and would be asked about them further, the next day.
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Attitudes changed too.
The attitudes stayed exactly the same.
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Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film.
Barry Levinson compares the distraction ploys to Clinton's allegation.
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Or the ad when the Wagnerian soprano (G.W.)
Wagnerian soprano has yet to be in an ad still to this day.
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Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.
Others push back against Storr for his claims on regarding the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.
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But the Sports Network posts Vegas odds, from the Stardust and Mirage casinos, no less.
Some times the Sports Networks will post the foolhardyat various casinos in Vegas.
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In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.
Silk scarves are considered taboo in Istanbul.
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Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist.
Despite the affair, most people maintain the same opinion on Clinton.
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When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade.
The reality is coupled with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value.
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As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one?
The signs were all on one floor.
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As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.
The woman is buying the clothes for someone else.
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A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.
A women professor from the University of Mainez believes she knows what William Shakespeare look like.
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Ataterk was the founder of modern Turkey, which is no mean accomplishment (what have you done with your life?)
Founding a country is a huge feat.
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And in the Where are they now?
They are dead.
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According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.
Both men talk to Al Gore a few times a year.
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Listen, I really don't want to criticize.
You made it hard for me to keep my feelings bottled up.
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The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric.
Reagan continued with big government the whole time he railed against it.
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Or maybe only 30 are true, in which case three should be confirmed overwhelmingly.
Seven were confirmed.
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Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.
The troops are trained for back up roles in strict secrecy.
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It's a major omission, then, that we never see those schools or the kids' interaction with their stable, well-to-do Beverly Hills counterparts.
Those schools were in Beverly Hills.
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b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies.
Clinton told lies and then admitted it.
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