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This is the administration's favorite description.
This is the least-liked description by the adminstration.
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Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few.
Bennett now believes there are just enough.
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As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed.
His fellow Impressionists died at the end of Moby-Dick.
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But even the Standard , it seems, has its limits.
There are restraints, even with the Standard.
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The newer ballets aim for more universal and fundamental emotions than amazement--for a sense of beauty, or joy, or love, or sorrow.
New ballets try to be amazing instead of emotional.
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Most Falwell-style Christians would probably say yes, since the Antichrist is a false Messiah, he'll have to be Jewish, like Christ himself.
The Antichrist is a false Messiah
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Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.
Michael Jackson's son life's conditions were neglected
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Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion.
The perception of some numbers is different when you write the numbers or you spell them in words
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First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.
Often one side can be right and one side can be wrong and you can still feel like you doing something right.
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Paying homage to the great war photographer's courage and talent, he nonetheless notes the conflicting stories of the photo's origins, Capa's own silence about the image in his writings, and other writers' questions.
Robert Capa was a paparazzo
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And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
Baryshnikov's embrace with his father gave a sense of goodness in men and God.
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Kill 'em with kindness, and they don't know where to look.
Shower them with kindness and they will be unaware of where to show their gaze.
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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
Rockefeller's companies reflected his awareness of leftist demands.
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Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?
Were banks naive investors?
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At MIT, where he had been given a teaching job, he hardly bothered with undergraduates and humiliated graduate students by solving their thesis problems.
He solved the problems of the grad students just to embarrass them because he enjoyed it.
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Given his track record as the District's mayor, you might want to sell your stock in that company.
The mayor's historical performance has been bad.
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Perhaps the uncritical reportage of Fitzsimmons' new story can be explained by pangs of guilt about the uncritical reportage of his old one.
Fitzsimmons still has guilt left over from his last story.
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For affirmative action to do anything, it must involve advancing people who are slightly less qualified.
Advancing those less qualified comes at the expense of those who are more qualified.
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Not so the New York Times , which editorially called for legislation to overturn the ruling.
The newspaper urged its readers to take action against the ruling as well.
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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.
The rest of the symptoms were left in the list.
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Mir's life span has been extended well past what it was designed for, as Russia cannot afford a replacement.
Russia is sitting on so much money and is planning to replace Mir tomorrow.
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(A great continental nation--I love that phrase, but what the hell does it mean?)
I love the phrase -- a great continental nation, but what the hell does that mean?
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My high-speed modem is mine, so your intellectual property must be mine too.
Your intellectual property probably belongs to me because I own my modem.
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Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.
Barr does poorly with attention and would rather stay on the down low.
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Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.
Complaints take a long, roundabout way to reach Critical Path.
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The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.
American people are more hard-core than US politicians.
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He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.
He loves his home state of Georgia with all his heart.
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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.)
McCarthyism never happened.
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Who actually thinks that having teen-agers line up to pee after they've demonstrated their parallel parking skills is a reasonable way to demand responsible behavior by young people when it comes to drugs, as Clinton proclaimed?
Clinton opposedparallel parking.
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Edward Murphy, but Commander (later Admiral ) Joseph M. Murph Murphy.
Edward Murphy was never in the military.
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The use of mind-altering drugs has probably increased as Huxley foresaw, although probably not to the extent that he foresaw.
Huxley foresaw that a increase in the intake of mind-altering drugs would happen.
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Nonetheless, Ehrlich's book was treated to a 21 st anniversary reprinting in 1997.
In 1997, Ehrlich's book was treated to a reprinting.
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Annan is tough without being vicious.
Annan has a good balance of toughness and judgement.
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After all, it's only a movie.
It's only a movie after all.
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Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest.
Ginsburg wants to build sympathy to build their client's image.
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So read Slate . A lot.
Slate is made to be read
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The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.
Japanese people are typically seen as professional.
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What's different about the late 1990s' version?
The 1990's version is exactly the same as all other versions.
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The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.
They Jewels come in a neatly decorated cardboard box.
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But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.
Everyone agrees on how old Kennewick Man is.
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In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.
The magazines are usually examined before arriving.
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A quick recap.
The recap won't take more than five minutes.
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While Coz preaches decorum, the Globe has added more sensationalism, more gore, more nasty gossip.
Things have gotten a bit worse with what appears in the Globe media.
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Zercher says Lindsey called her and urged her to say all positive things about her experiences.
Lindsey asked Zercher to say positive things about her experiences.
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Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
The book is not doing well as it competes with books that could be blockbusters.
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If increasing democratization is the test for access to the international-trading system, China has flunked.
China will succeed if it increases democratization for access to the international-trading system.
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Let's take video games as an example.
Let us look at video games as a reference.
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Paste for Greenies
The paste is made from Greenies.
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Russian mothers traveled to Chechnya, pulled their sons off the front lines, and brought them home.
Some sons did not want to leave the front lines to go home with their Russian mothers.
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But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement.
The Barlows of the world predict radical improvement.
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Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.
The efforts of Milosevic have led to the economic and social flourishing of Yugoslavia.
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Meanwhile, Olivia fits right into the role of the beautiful-blonde-who-isn't-really-a-bimbo.
Olivia is smart.
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Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.
Arabs are trying to find a solution from the future that will work for them today.
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The other, largely neglected Imply that the competition, as currently configured, is improbably upscale.
The previous configuration was low key and homespun.
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Of Decter's comments, the less said the better.
Fewer is preferable when it comes to Decter's remarks.
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In the short term, readjustment hits EITC, Social Security, WIC, food stamps, and school lunches, says Dean Baker of the Economic Policy Institute, but in the long term, taxes will be 30 [percent] or 40 percent higher.
Dean Baker is the best in the field.
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But a real predator I know is using, selling, and almost certainly doing other crimes.
A predator I know is doing crimes.
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They wouldn't do it with just any woman.
They would do it with any woman that appeared.
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And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.
Children grow faster than their parents.
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Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace.
Microsoft doesn't think about marketplace rules when it markets a product.
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The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.
Taxes were based on the allocation of the market of the long distance telephone companies.
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Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.
Ron Brown sold secrets to Russia for $20,000.
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Gay liberation, like feminism, is central to the whole individualist ethos of the last two decades.
Gay liberation and feminism share many ethical components.
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Later, McLaughlin refers to Saddam's Republican Guard as the Red Guard.
Saddam's Republican Guard has been called the Red Guard.
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If I really own my modem, then I must have an unqualified right to dial up anywhere, any time, and suck in whatever is out there to be sucked.
I really own my modem giving me free reign to connect to broadband if I do not have a hotspot connection.
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Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.
Life on other planet's could exist if you consider that life.
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The leading example of such an auction is the stock market.
One can look at the stock market as an example of an auction.
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He also knew what too many latter-day economists have Macroeconomics is crucial to the public credibility of economics as a whole.
He didn't believe what many latter-day economist did that Macroeconomics was crucial the the credibility of economics to the public.
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Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type!
Prudie can type fast.
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As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.
Lucasfilm still loves every part of the deal.
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One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant TV with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for don't shoot, I'm a reporter.
The boonies are the safest place to be.
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Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.
Internet providers refuse to allow you to share your data.
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.
McDonald doesn't pay generously its employees in Hong Kong
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Today's Papers is sorry that the Journal wasn't curious enough to find out the average age of those CEOs.
The Journal says they care a lot about the average age of CEO's.
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Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, who made the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story , say Lana was adamant that she wasn't there.
Susan Muska made the documentary, "The Brandon Teena Story," in 1989.
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hereby announces its intention to mark the year 2000 by anointing a Person of the Millennium.
No one anointed a person of the Millennium.
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Beck's first contribution will appear Monday evening.
Beck has made a contribution.
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With the glorious exception of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V , there is nothing more demoralizing than an inspirational address.
Inspirational speeches are often demoralizing
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But the interesting question is about sites sharing data.
Sites sharing data is a simple matter to discuss.
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Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!
The fast-talking auctioneer had been at one point a tobacco dealer.
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Since communism closed shop in Russia, all the volunteers have disappeared.
Volunteers have been less active since the fall of Communism.
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When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
Dexter would be the one to take over the King Center.
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Alternatively, he could have used his address to the Christian Coalition last Friday to criticize religious intolerance.
He had to use his address to disapprove of religious intolerance.
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Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets.
Times' judgment is completely negligible
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KAETHE (Offering the briefcase): NOW can you ordain me?
Kaethe had been studying to be a priest for months.
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However, Clinton would risk legislative revenge if he tried to pursue the issue in the face of firm majorities against him in Congress.
Any further pursuit of the issue could result in looming danger for Clinton.
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No matter how fast we all run, someone must be behind.
Someone will always be behind us even if we run at our top speed.
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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 people were mean to her because she showed she had good values.
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Burn How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet ,by Michael Wolff (Simon & Schuster).
How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet was published in 2015.
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Either someone is privileged, or he is not.
Often people view being privileged in different ways.
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but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight
The axe-man kills his victim by beheading them
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His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.
Clinton sexually harrased Kathleen Willey.
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Time calls Bill Bradley's nascent presidential campaign strategy charming and insane.
Bill Bradly caught the attention of Time.
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two or more of the above.
Only pick one of the above options.
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High praise for The New Yorker writer's stories about disaffected youth.
These are the first storiea published in the New Yorker about disaffected youth to receive high praise..
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It seems suitable in Saudi Arabia, for example, where women can't vote, since it squashes public expression along with hair.
Women in Saudi Arabia have more rights than men
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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 lived in the neighborhood of Press Enclave in Delhi.
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Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize
Banks would be given an opportunity to reset their operations for a day, which would result in better service.
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Oh, Just Give the Damn Answer
Whatever you do, do not give the answer.
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In the age of the divine entrepreneur, no one cares how badly you treat your kid.
Entrepreneurs neglect their children.
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