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Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?
His major significant accomplishment was accepted by everyone.
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If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
The relationship between the two had been made painfully obvious leading up to this latest film.
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Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant?
Livingstone wanted to know if there was a plant Zapruder.
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The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death.
Rhodes thought Mad Cow Disease was comparable to the common cold.
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Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?
Companies always opt to close as soon as they see profit.
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Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.
Oil prices have stayed the same the last few weeks.
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(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)
Russia is always very precise in its reports
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There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk.
The pleasures experienced are universal across all people.
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Apparently there are enough 18-year-old book buyers in the first flush of marijuana to keep Hunter in tequila and narcotics for the rest of his life.
The 18-year-old book buyers are keeping Hunter in the laundromat business.
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Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre).
The movie playing at the theatre is called Wait Until Dark.
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Ironically, busing will become unnecessary only when no one seems to have a problem with it anymore.
The less people care about busing the more necessary it becomes.
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That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not.
People of Chinese descent don't necessarily hold those values or culture.
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While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote.
Both sides of the impeachment vote utilized the Clinton Iraq conflict to their advantage.
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Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.
The shops will be closed on Sunday.
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are laughing at us saying if we make it thsese [ sic ] stupid ass Niggaz Will Buy it.
They used a derogatory word against black people.
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The errors range from the trivial (misspelling the name of former Gov.
The former Gov. is enraged with the misspelling of his name.
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The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.
You are making the pie bigger.
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To ring in the new year in 1997, he reportedly blew up a Cadillac.
He celebrated the beginning of 1997 by exploding a car.
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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 thanked Al Gore for accepting Russian pledges,
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Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention.
Increasing returns affect the market negatively
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Bush was asked no questions about education and only one about welfare.
People asked Bush a single question regarding welfare and dodged the education issue.
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Click here to sign up for e-mail delivery.
You need to send a letter to sign up for the email delivery
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He brought along this whole plane full of African-Americans, and some of our really fine citizens are African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business.
African-Americans contribute profoundly in many different aspects of life.
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Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now.
Nobody knew whether life was on Mars because nobody looked.
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It'd be nice to know more about that trend.
That trend isn't very known yet
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In theory, for-profits are equipped to do it through greater efficiency--economies of scale, easier closure of failing operations, and better access to capital.
For-profits work better than non-profits when it comes to environmental concerns and products.
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How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.
The Republican solution is not better than anything out there.
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On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right.
Fish always went around gloating about his knowledge of everything.
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The other, largely neglected Imply that the competition, as currently configured, is improbably upscale.
The current confuguration was predicted to be upscale.
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An Englishman who trained as an anthropologist before going to work for BBC Television, Barker clearly made up his mind about his material before his cameras began to roll--so it's no surprise that it feels prechewed and predigested.
Barker was an Englishman.
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I e-mailed all three galleries, asking them to explain the disparity in their prices.
After noticing that all three galleries had the same price, I went with the one that had a hot owner.
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Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.
Scott Shuger's articles are published exclusively on Slater
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How they do so may be within our control.
We might be able to mange how they do the action.
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The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.
The irritation persists after the opening chase.
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Or he may You're in the wrong place.
The wrong place is where you are.
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How much further could the ball have gone?
Someone thinks the ball stayed in the same place.
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Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
Writers laboring in obscurity's patron saint could be Powell.
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In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity.
Tito kept most claims of ethnic identity under control.
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It will be because they hope it may mean a happier, more secure week for their kid and a less anxious one for themselves.
They feel hopeless about their kid, and remain anxious about it.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans.
Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson has pledged to expose candidates who tear down other Republicans.
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He's almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
In 1974, he was considered distrustful and scary.
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Critics' principal target is the company's policy of pegging doctors' investment returns to profits at Columbia/HCA-affiliated institutions.
The companies other policy are less frowned upon by critics.
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Academia's most popular one-year fellowship, the Guggenheim, has been awarded to dozens of academics, including the University of Chicago's Neil Harris, who will research the history of the American urban newspaper building, and Williams College's Richard Stamelman, who will study the literature and culture of perfume.
Dozens of academics have received the Guggenheim fellowship.
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Of course, the magnitude of the threats faced by the United States bears no fixed relation to the size of our economy.
The economy is fixed in relation to threat size.
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Then again, the tabloids have to give credit when love proves the cynics wrong.
Tabloids show that love proves cynics were not right sometimes.
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The striking thing about workers' comments after the vote was how many of them mentioned the possibility of the company shutting down its operations.
After they voted, it was remarkable how many comments of the possibility the company was shutting down operations.
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Did this really make her beautiful?
The author talks about their own beauty.
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I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
One person authored the legal treatise independently.
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Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation.
Sawyer was aware of the issue that was occurring.
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A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.
There are supposedly glaring loopholes in the gobal-warming treaty.
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That one, I suspect, is harder to refute.
That one is easy to argue.
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While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy.
Often Romley is not well liked.
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Boone claims that the album's purpose is to attract metal enthusiasts to Jesus, and that his get-up was a spoof of his old choirboy image.
Boone sang in church choirs as a child.
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I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.
Americans feel that the society became more dangerous, and leaving the door open is not wise anymore
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I remember.
I remember what it felt like.
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Attitudes changed too.
They started to see some things in a new light.
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Beijing's opposition seems to be driven more by apprehension that Washington might provide theater missile defenses to Taiwan, which China views as a renegade province.
Taiwan is getting help from the USA .
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The reader is led to despise one character because of his bad taste in neckties, but not to hold racism and homophobia against another.
Neckties are the reason one is homophobic and racisist.
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Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible?
We were unable to find a benefit in their deaths.
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The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).
The threat that President Bush dished out to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War was blatant to the point of being crass.
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It may be more important to ask whether it's helped the people it was supposed to help, he began.
It's best to see if the people have actually received the help that they needed.
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Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few.
Bennett was worrying five years ago.
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A year ago, the wife of the Oxford don noticed that the pattern on Kleenex quilted tissue uncannily resembled the Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern, which Sir Roger had invented--and copyrighted--in 1974.
The wife of the Oxford don spends a lot of time looking at Kleenex.
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Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques.
Sante Kimes is one of the children to whom the techniques are being applied to.
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As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.
The poor men are planning to make money through identity theft.
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Late in his prize-winning series, Gerth wrote some harsh things about Hughes, and Hughes' lobbying of Clinton, but he scarcely mentioned Hughes' Republican connections.
Gerth didn't focus on describing Hughes' Republican connections
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So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising?
I know exactly the type of Jew I am after these last 60 years.
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The resistance literature often comments on Hitler's amazing luck, or his uncanny ability to sense danger; but the failures of the resistance might be better ascribed to the calculated unluck of the resisters, their own ability to sense danger and step away from it, and their overall minuscule number.
The resistance were had a minuscule number of people involved with it.
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The cover profile makes Jerry Seinfeld seem quite charming, if a tad immature.
The well story of the magazine featured Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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(Frank is hardly the first to note that the tastes of a hip bohemian elite have spread to the masses, or to argue that the results of this cultural migration are deleterious.
Frank is the loudest voice against the hip bohemian elite.
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There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.
It has a solid foundation even after people were complaining about this less than perfect question.
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I could have sworn I had my 10-foot pole right here ...
I swore at my pole.
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Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.
The Slate editor really loved his writing style.
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The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.
This year's winner will return next year as the reigning champion.
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My situation is something of a good news-bad news thing.
My situation is neither good or bad.
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My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright would undoubtedly emphasize that our concern over status exists for good evolutionary reasons.
Robert Wright writes a column for slate.
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Thanks to Gutman, Genovese, and their left-wing peers, we now know that the notion that Slaves Were Happy, as the New York Times headline put it, is not necessarily false.
The headline Slaves Were Happy was in a Washington Post paper.
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And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can.
Insurers have taken action through the government to be treated fairer by hospitals
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And there is yet another valid that the widespread transmission of racial stereotypes might indeed be helpful to hate groups.
If not for racial stereotypes, there would be no hate groups.
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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 ...
Other experts also argue on the subject.
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That Explains Why Clinton's Finger The McLaughlin Group spends 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's jokey suggestion that Clinton is actually ...
The McLaughlin Group understood that it was a joke all along.
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Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.
The change was concerning the lopsided financial forecast.
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is that it sometimes finds those answers too predictably.
There is no recurring pattern that determines the answers reliably.
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The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.
Brosnan brings an irritation to the opening chase.
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
It was just a misunderstanding that I was operating a laboratory.
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Even better for the veep, Gov.
It is often better for the Vice President.
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These decisions are made by middle management, who are free to indulge their prejudices, regardless of a calculation of what's best for the corporate bottom line.
Middle management does not always think about the corporate bottom line.
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That is another investment one can make for old so to conduct oneself in prior years that one can feel one has paid one's dues.
The majority of investments are made for when we reach the old age
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Possibly, Bakaly meant to give the impression that Starr has a good hand without formally stating anything, but more likely it was an unintentional snafu.
Bakaly later cleared up the misunderstanding about Starr and shared what they meant to communicate about them.
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That, in turn, might cause a peaceful transition from communism.
That will definitely lead to stagnancy, which may secure the dictator's role as a staple of society.
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Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry.
The mergers are good for the telecom industry.
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So, who's hungry?
Hunger can be perceived and communicated.
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The next day's Los Angeles Times goes with the DLC Clinton's Centrist Big Draw Among Party Faithful.
The LA Times refuses to publish any article about Clinton because they are staying out of politics.
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The author of Bastard out of Carolina , known as a confessional memoirist par excellence, writes about someone other than herself, and earns mixed reviews.
The author of Bastard out of Carolina gets mixed reviews for her new book.
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Critics worry that the kids underestimate the importance of blue-chip college credentials.
Critics fear this because kids aren’t seeing college as an option as much as before.
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Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.
The policy is in constant flux, as it is brought before those in power, for review of it's effectiveness in dealing with crises.
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The problem, though, is that the ADR phenomenon has created a situation where U.S. investors are pouring billions of dollars into companies whose standards of financial disclosure and corporate governance are dramatically different from our own and which are, in some cases, nonexistent.
ADR has created a situation where U.S. investors pour billions of dollars into companies whose standards are dramatically different from our own.
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As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer.
Washington Week appears daily on NBC.
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Newsweek 's cover package, pegged to the release of Steven Spielberg's film Amistad , assesses the legacy of slavery.
The motion picture "Amistad" relates well to Newsweek's cover story.
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As Bill Clinton ratchets up the pressure on Baghdad, Saddam will inevitably bellow Nasserite defiance.
Saddam will not back down from Clinton's increased force.
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