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Dissenting in the New York Times Book Review , Pico Iyer finds Cuba Libre The central moral question raised ...
According to the New York Times Book Review, Pico Iyer brings up a moral questions of the Cuban drink, Cuba Libre.
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Their actual relationship was more complicated.
Their relationship was complicated.
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Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate.
She wants to be a journalist under Clinton's administration.
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K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument.
K will need to change his argument so it works better.
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Diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and penile injuries (more than 100,000 whacked in bike accidents have been permanently deflated, according to the medical literature) all prevent men from mustering a swelling.
Diabetes doesn't play a role in health issues for men.
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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. and Daryl Hannah stayed together forever.
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Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies.
The author wants to read stories that are dumbed down.
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The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.
It's impossible to have any government regulations.
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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
Americans looked to the courts in the 1780s to check how excessive the legislators had gotten in a case that lasted for years.
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Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull).
The horns are a powerful sexual and masculine symbol
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Reed takes his place in 2002.
Reed took his place eighteen years ago.
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Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan?
The author wants to know for sure that it is Valentine's Day in Manhattan.
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Richard Holbrooke was confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations.
Richard Holbrooke is associated with the United Nations.
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It's impossible today to realize how shocking The Picture of Dorian Gray was to 1890s readers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is still revisited by readers of today.
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The NYT and LAT fronts report that a Vanderbilt University study, to be published today in Science , indicates that blacks are far less likely than whites to make use of the Internet.
Whites like to conduct more of their activities online than Blacks are willing to.
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D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, part-time congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well.
D'Amato wanted to discredit Schumer
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Maybe then you won't be too good to ride in an exploding Chevy.
The person wants to ride in a Chevy that is exploding because they have a death wish of some sort, or maybe they are just crazy.
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The English gutter press, which was just developing a wide audience, whipped up public hatred toward him over his sex crimes and made him a pariah.
He was fired from the newspaper.
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In 1958, 4 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages.
Four percent of white Americans in 1958, approved of interracial marriages.
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Kenny needs to come back home to Texas.
He ought to return to the Lone Star State.
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(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.
The Wall Streeters' words have underlying meaning.
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Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis.
Hamas is a group that his brother hates.
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(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.)
There are more than enough people buying fax machines right now for the author to buy one.
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That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.
Managers strongly suggest that you complete a task that offers no value to yourself and can be dangerous.
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We Californians apparently do little else.
Floridians do little else.
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Equity options themselves aren't the problem--they have legitimate uses--and without the ability to lock in positions that equity options offer, certain folks might not be in the equity market in the first place.
One can lock in different equity options.
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You just have to be interesting.
You have to be intriguing.
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In other words, Bill Gross could break even--provided he was the only advertiser on the Web.
Bill Gross is currently absent from advertising on the Web.
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But the big news in Ireland is the peace negotiations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
Their were peace talks between the British and Irish Prime ministers.
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Well, if we extend the co-op's story a little bit, it is not hard to generate something that looks a lot like Japan's problems--and to see the outline of a solution.
There is a clear solution.
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He doesn't cheat.
He has never cheated.
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With negotiations at a stalemate and summer vacations removing the motivation for an immediate solution, both sides appear to be settling in.
A solution should come about later this year.
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When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.
Because we feel indebted to Eros we discuss fashion at great lengths.
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It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is sturdy and forgiving.
It showed the public that politics are cruel and gimmicky.
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And when it comes from the white right, it's narcissism in the service of hypocrisy.
The white right is no worse than the white left
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Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree.
Quayle and Bennett agree.
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No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.
Kundera loves his old and tired ideologies.
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Perhaps people who work in group settings where some hand is always out can start a reverse Limit forced-march giving to $2.
The forced-march is something that all people have to go through eventually.
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but made mother smoke it up just in case,
It's better not to take chances
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The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.
Several regulations are good for our country.
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But they didn't make that case, at least to me.
According to them, they did not present a particular stand on an issue.
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Who can I report disaster fraud to?
After encountering cases of disaster fraud, people always choose to remain silent about the incident.
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I'd far rather read those sexy economics columns by Paul Krugman.
People dislike Paul Krugman.
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while pointing to a chart.
The chart was completely ignored.
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These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.
Her recent songs tend to include messages of peace and equality.
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Unfortunately, mine were no less vocal in their objections to being kicked out of our bed at those ages than when they were infants.
The author let their children lay on the author's bed.
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[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture.
This culture requires thoughtful commentary to really appreciate it.
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Fine, then simply means test it.
Means can be tested.
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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 was a horrible prosecutor.
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Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche.
Wachtler is correct in thinking prison is cliche.
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Coming from a conservative background, my partner has stated on many occasions that his parents won't allow him to stay over at my apartment, even though on some nights this would be preferable to his making the long drive home.
Conservatives are less willing to have their child spend the night at another friend's home.
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He likes to cite Kerouac's I am not anti-anything (except racists and certain big corporations).
Kerouac rarely has anything worth citing.
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There's no scientific or psychological basis for believing that children are affected in their sexual development or eventual sexual orientation by exposure to homosexuality--on television or in real life.
Psychologists research sexual development in children.
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Everybody says--every politician--[that] it's to your disadvantage not to answer it.
The politicians agree that ignoring the comments with a wave of the hand is the best response.
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Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned.
He abhors nuance and grey areas.
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But the more important question How many teen-age girls are getting pregnant in the first place?
Teen-age girls are unable to get pregnant
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On Meet the Press , White House Chief of Staff John Podesta We're not negotiating, Tim.
We spoke to the White House Chief of Staff for 30 minutes.
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Furthermore, the filmed sequence closes out the event, and gives viewers an opportunity to shrug it off.
he event starts with a filmed sequence.
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As for the victory in Chechnya, it's a mirage.
Chechnya's victory was as real as could be.
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Wolfe doesn't see himself as primarily a satirist.
Wolfe sees himself as primarily a satirist.
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(Billy is said to be the family peacemaker.)
Billy keeps the peace amongst his family.
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Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, will be abandoned or dropped at the pound.
A massive amount of them will be dumped in the garbage.
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Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas.
All of the rooms upstairs were dedicated to Catholic Realism.
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The Seagram Co. expanded plans to advertise liquor on television, defying President Clinton's plea to honor the half-century-old voluntary ban.
Seagram Co. defied Clinton's plea to honor the voluntary ban.
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
We have had it independently fact checked
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complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.
pointing out that the legal residents of their own country are a welcome addition.
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Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month.
The hearing took place on a Tuesday.
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Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships.
Seamus Heaney's poem was published on Slate
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Outside the world of pop psychology, it is likely to engender skepticism.
Skepticism is probable except in the world of pop psychology.
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The cover story says pro sports are in trouble.
The article was on the back page.
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In 19 th -century Britain, this tough love helped keep the divorce rate near zero even amid the stark status inequality of a modern nation.
Lots of marriages in 19th century Britain did all that could be done in order to keep things together until happier times would arise.
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An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.
The author is unaware of the publication creating East Side Story.
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Two humorless and often petty egomaniacs intransigently reiterated their familiar positions (Rich).
I am familiar with their positions.
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The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.
The organization lied about reducing essential activities and never intended to shutdown,
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In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them.
The charges against Johnson weren't very strong
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Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright.
The Republican Tom DeLay had opposite views of Dick Armey who is from the Libertarian part of the Republican party.
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Pokemon creates an entire alternate universe, a land with its own cities, ecosystem, and rules.
Pokemon is a game with imagination.
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The healing of the Gifford marriage is now complete, and Frank will never cheat again.
Frank was the one to cheat in the Gifford marriage.
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Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice.
The way it is phrased does well not to implicate him of perjury or obstruction of justice.
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should not guide our activities in cyberspace.
Nothing can try to guide actions on a website.
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News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.
The people of News Quiz love greeting cards.
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Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human.
The human cloning project was a complete and smashing success.
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The Washington Post called him everyone's favorite Arab moderate.
The Washington Post upset everyone with their claim about the Arab.
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I was about to say that studies showed no connection.
There is no connection between the studies.
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It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up.
The author has interest in seeing Nerve fail.
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Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free.
When asked, parents indicated that proficiency in basketball and football is ideal among all other sports.
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But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault.
May you be blessed with, but if you do, the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of the defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- The fault was nobody's.
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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 failed to received the Guggenheim fellowship.
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They concluded it was caused by the driver's loss of control.
The driver kept control.
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Wearing a suit and working at a computer in an office tower are, believe it or not, preferable to backbreaking work in a rice paddy.
Office work is easier on the body than agricultural work..
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Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape.
Real avenues of escape need vouchers to be worth enough.
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By contrast, many nerds can be handsome (Gore) or self-confident to the point of arrogance (Gates, Gingrich).
Gates, Gingrich could be considered arrogant.
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The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son.
The President already has a daughter.
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She upset 16-year-old champion Michelle Kwan, who fell down twice during her routine.
Michelle Kwan was beaten after she twice fell.
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Conflicted over what its true mission is, PBS simultaneously whores for corporate money and aggressively gathers data on how poor, uneducated, and blue-collar its audience is.
PBS is protective of it's users data.
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Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.
Bill Bradley is a Christian.
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Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems.
When Microsoft has a monopoly they will lower the price on their operating systems.
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Instead of an invisible hand pushing the economy toward full employment in some unspecified long run, we have the visible hand of the Fed pushing us toward its estimate of the noninflationary unemployment rate over the course of two or three years.
The Fed is pushing us towards its estimate of the noninflationary unemployment rate over the course of two or three years.
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Explainer thanks many Slate readers for suggesting this topic.
The explainer was ungrateful to the slate readers.
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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.
The Globe has reported that Martin will no longer seek compensation from Shepherd.
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