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Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation.
Starr's investigation was independent of the litigation.
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The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
That I Had the Wings and Flying Home are more self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
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Newsweek reports that JFK Jr. actively explored a Senate run before Hillary Clinton expressed interest.
JFK Jr spent a lot of money exploring a run for US Senator from New York.
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Chrysler's elaborate system of dealerships might, in theory, help Mercedes crack the U.S. market, where its share is now less than 1 percent.
Mercedes has a huge share in the U.S. market.
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
The author wants to get something from the oil seller.
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Wandered all over the room and blew on some other guy's dice.
Lady luck followed the blowing of the dice.
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This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women.
We have a very casual environment at my company.
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But Milosevic, in turn, may have underestimated Clinton's agility.
Milosevic overestimated Clinton's agility.
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And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase dumbing down or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates all spoke in full sentences, in iambic pentameter, in Latin, while wearing complicated wigs and fancy hats and several layers of underwear with fastenings so elaborate you had to be like a genius just to undress for one of your Naked Fireside Chats from the Aero White House, a giant dirigible moored to Zelda Fitzgerald.
Game show questions have gotten harder to answer.
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Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges.
Often times political figures find themselves being investigated.
neutral
Eight pages later, a tribute to Princess Diana emphasizes her embodiment of, yes, Globalization has become the decade's most overused word, but at its heart, it embodies a real technology has made this a planet of shared experiences.
The word "globalization" has been overused this decennium.
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A meeting with the district's member of Congress has been scheduled, but I have no doubt how this will end.
Only Congress holds meetings in Washington.
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Virtually all the fans with whom I have spoken over the years (quite a friendly bunch, actually) consider the absence of big wrecks, injuries, etc., a key component of a good race.
Even though the fans are nice, they enjoy seeing cars wreck.
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Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.
Robert Bennett is known to be silent.
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It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did.
Your spouse would likely feel shame to apologize on live TV.
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A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
Dentists only knew casting dentures and filling teeth a generation ago.
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Does he himself play, or has he merely observed others?
It is questioned if he plays or just observes.
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Hannah was recently spotted in New York wearing a hat with a star on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a T-shirt with--are you sitting down?
Hannah was recently spotted in New Jersey wearing a hat with a cross on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a sweatshirt with--are you standing up?
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I passed out and had to be carried home.
I ended up passing out during that time period.
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That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.
Transportation policy can change significantly from year to year.
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Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is ironic.
The John Waters film is all around great film with a satisfying plot.
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Novak cut Hunt off only twice.
Novak interrupted Hunt five times while he tried to speak.
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The heroes of the movie are a man and woman who escape the system with their baby and are going to live like a traditional family.
The man and woman who escaped the system were the bad guys in the story.
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They have mainstream acceptance and no shock value, and are worn by young career women and old grandmothers alike.
These things are shocking, and young and old women despise them
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That is the sense in which we are all on the same bus.
The sense is we are all on the same bus going to school.
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We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?
Martha is held to a different standard than other Internet tycoons.
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Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten.
History can't be changed so it's best if the past was forgotten.
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Submitting a decision to the U.S.
The decision was the correct decision.
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Unrestricted trade will help U.S. industries in the first category but will wipe out those in the second category.
Free trade harms US industries.
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Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines.
The mandarin journalists are well-off due to the magazine they write for.
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(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.)
The sport season is something different
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Music critics complain about the computer's tin ear, but artificial intelligence experts are impressed.
Music critics are much harsher at judging a computer's tin ear than anyone else.
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In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.
Geffen has never been involved in the entertainment business.
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The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine.
The media was willing to buy this line as a result of the campaign depicting Clinton as a victim.
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Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.
Lee Harvey Oswald and Lyndon Johnson met at a restaurant.
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Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.
There are two newsweeklies.
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, the closure of a local factory), the benefits tend to be invisible because they're faraway or diffuse (e.g.
The benefits were always in plain sight, and never hidden from those that sought them out in the factory.
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Slate 's chief political correspondent, looked around him a few months ago and saw nothing but squalor.
Slate is the best chief political correspondent in history.
neutral
The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts.
Microsoft wasn't involved in any lawsuits what so ever.
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One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game.
Take Sperling's experience with the game as gospel.
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Go forth and cover culture and the arts.
The person wants to study culture and arts.
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Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug.
The author praises Wachtler for his provocative writing.
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Not all Republicans think this way.
Every Republican thinks like this.
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Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt.
The woman took kindly to others looking up her clothes.
neutral
The Network Vehicle designers left car phones off the list, I guess, because they assume that car phones are practically standard equipment today.
Most new cars have car phones installed.
neutral
This is, admittedly, just a single line from a long-ago interview, but it suggests that the Clintons are locked into a denial.
The denial is obvious in a single line.
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The postal system was even more important for civil society and democratic politics than for commerce.
Democrats hold the postal system in a higher regard than commerce does.
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And the bureaucratic approach prevents the section as a whole from taking positions on--or creating--literary issues.
The section as a whole doesn't take positions on or creating literary issues with the bureaucratic approach used.
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But he has never done what his characters would have.
The characters do many good things.
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In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price.
To negotiate a good price, I can use alternative help besides just the web.
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But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.
The penalty is not as big as has been described when computing truthfully.
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But somehow you expect that from Republicans, whereas you don't expect it from big-name national Democrats, especially Northerners like George Mitchell.
Democrats generally behave like they're expected to do
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Whether these habits will change on their own, with the maturation of a more tolerant generation, or whether full social acceptance of black Americans will require a concerted governmental effort, is unknowable.
There has been positive movement towards civil rights.
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Idon't generally complain about oppressive patriarchal social structures, but Ferberism is a good example of one.
I also can think of a couple of more examples of these types of social structures.
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An article celebrates the return to favor of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose sharp tongue is nearly as famous as his music (he disses Wynton Marsalis as a talented high-school trumpet player).
The article shows how Jarrett was unable to return to favor.
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They are using us, and I need help with this.
They are helping us, so help on this matter is unnecessary.
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Lana's mother, Linda Gutierres (not her name in the film), told them where they could find Brandon.
Linda didn't know any Brandon
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Is money money similarly presages Bob Dole on the 1996 campaign stump reminding people, It's your money!
Bob Dole reminds people of their assets.
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Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy 's Hugh They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs.
Eszterhas and Hugh They have opposing attitudes towards themselves and their work.
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Editorialists agree that Milosevic is a treacherous butcher, but nobody knows how to stop him without a major bombing campaign, for which Europe and the United States lack the stomach.
They are not sure how to deal with him without having to resort to a large scale bombing campaign.
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Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.
Rick Segal is an Internet guru for Steve Forbes.
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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.
It's wise to make investments for when we get old
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Remember, the last guy to argue for a distinction between ideology and competence was Michael Dukakis.
Michael Dukakis thought that competences and ideologies were an indivisible binomial
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This is where I disagree with Michael Lind--and with you, Fred, I'm guessing.
Michael Lind has a completely different idea than other people.
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By continuing to appease Buchanan, several of our candidates appear to have put politics ahead of our party's principles.
Buchanan is actively pushing the idea of politics over the party’s beliefs.
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Unfortunately for the GOP, the sophistication and delicacy of the ads is already being overwhelmed by the Democrats' simplification of them.
The GOP came out with some classy ads.
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If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey.
The survey has been postponed.
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Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work.
Chatterbox believes in crude psychology.
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And malignancy develops slowly.
Tumors never grow slowly.
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Audiences literally boo avant-garde director Robert Wilson for his minimalist staging of Richard Wagner's classic opera, and most critics agree with the verdict.
Robert Wilson felt he did a good job re-interpreting the opera.
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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.
China does not want the USA to help Taiwan.
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You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)
The features worth mentioning include HTML mail and Preview Pane.
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He didn't systematically vet things with her or even regularly delegate to her.
They worked together in a friendly manner.
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Bush was asked no questions about education and only one about welfare.
Many people asked Bush about education and ignored welfare issues.
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Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose.
Decay was the problem least worried about.
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Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.
While they were against some of the protocols, the city didn't possess enough sway to end them.
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This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
She ignores the more general male losses in her stories.
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Hillary could have known in detail, known in general, not wanted to know, or truly had no idea.
A person whom Hillary trusted closely knew what was going on.
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Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course.
Clinton would begin to feel the heat form his past missteps concerning Whitewater, and would be taken to task by the media and other parties as a whole.
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Capital Legislator Want More Facts on Daylight Savings Time from Mexico's News . A close second is Why Farm Sheep at All?
Capital Legislator believes the facts they already have.
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The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)
Many do not like the book anymore to guide their daily life.
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The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.
The Vatican allows ministers and nun to minister to gays.
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Our smudge and blear and soil, he proposes, do not efface the glory.
The smudge, blear, and soil erases all the glory.
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After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.
Newsweek went on hiatus due to financial problems.
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Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so.
Shuman wrote about Dynamics
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largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings.
Glass ceilings cannot be broken by a woman.
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Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers.
The sister was denied entrance to the ball.
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(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.
The juxtaposition is rude to those who take the test.
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Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate.
Orrin Hatch said that felonies committed by a candidate should be kept from American citizens.
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Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him.
Johnson offered to help Kennedy if he chose to run.
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George W. Bush takes both covers.
George W Bush failed to get either cover.
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In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of nature, but in nature as human nature affects it, industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur.
Divine grandeur in everything has not been seen.
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The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended.
Hostile behavior needs to end before impeachment is considered by the government.
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Even if they use the meat.
This would be true should they use the meat.
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Intimations of his own mortality turned out to be premature.
He was very healthy last week.
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The Shopping Avenger right away made contact with the Super 8 executive offices.
Super 8 corporate was immediately contacted.
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Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran.
Puffy Combs and Master P have been friends for years.
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GS's Saturday Evening Post articles eerily suggest words we were to hear 50 or 60 years later.
GS's Saturday Evening Post writings use a plain language
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And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment.
If impeachment was the alternative he would certainly consent.
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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.
Macro economics place a important role in the public credibility of economics.
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