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This Just In--Nuclear War Averted
It maybe hard to prevent a Nuclear War.
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How does the high-minded dismissal work?
What does the low-minded dismissal involve?
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This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal.
The candidates agreed that this would be considered legal, even if done on television.
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President Clinton welcomed Yasser Arafat to the White House and criticized Israel for expanding Jewish housing in East Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat Praised Isreal while he was at the White House.
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But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.
49ers fans are correct in their love of Joe Montana.
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You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?'
You should look yourself in the eye and ask "What am I organizing for?"
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My opinion is that not every perjury is a high crime, as grounds for removing a president from office.
The level of perjury is defined by those who are prosecuting the crime.
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From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.
Reporting is not always accurate accoridng to their role.
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By these criteria Kinsey fares well.
Kinsey is doing well.
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In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions.
People weren't aware of what the NEA did back in the day, no one paid attention.
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Jesse Helms could not have demonized homosexuality more effectively--which, of course, is why he was pleased to draw public attention to the pictures.
Jessie Hells preferred to keep the images private.
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(A Versace show opened with razor-sharp bias-cut asymmetrical navy dresses, stern except for a frill at the hem and a swatch of black lace that masked eyes.
The show began with eccentric outfits of dresses and masks.
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Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?
I have no interest in wine.
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I can't in good conscience argue that you shouldn't field a team.
I can ban you from this football team without regret because I am soulless.
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But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does?
Eastwood had nothing to do with the film stating he was working on a different script.
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It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.
His wrong thinking would consistently get him into trouble.
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Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism.
The Democrats switched parties.
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There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade.
Missing kids pictures on a container causes people to relax.
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It's as though the book was not edited at all.
The book contained some typos.
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If granny needed an operation, there went the tuition for junior's college.
Granny needed an operation for her heart.
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However, if the second possibility were correct, then both George Bush Sr.'s and George W.' southern identities would have to be called into question.
Fortunately, only the first possibility is feasible.
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I can't remember if it came from the tenure committee or the gentleman's club where I used to lap dance.
I am sure that it came form the tenure committee.
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If one thinks Ken Starr is out of control, the other, ideally, should argue that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement.
In the ridiculous scenario, the victims stabbed by Clinton end up dead.
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And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart.
Adults are prohibited from giving their hearts to save children.
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His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand.
Moyers' has a wide range of guests.
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A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.
Everyone ought to mind their own business regarding her love life.
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As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be.
Big Trouble's size was influenced by the writer's efforts.
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Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK.
You can trust other persons to say the truth even when they're not under oath
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perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age.
Her art is a tasteless imitation and requires much better technique.
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They assure the readers that they, like most economists and finance people, have their retirement savings in stocks.
They provided the readers with examples of how they process information that pertains to their savings and the best options to go for.
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In last week's episode, Apu, the Indian convenience store owner, goes down to the docks to donate porno magazines to sailors.
The sailors were happy to receive the porno magazines.
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Physical modesty is not a Baldwin trait.
Baldwin prefers emotional modesty.
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But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks).
Dividends are extremely cheap to obtain.
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[Monica] made him feel good about himself.
He took a positive attitude towards himself because of Monica.
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Wore a rag on his head.
He tried to disguise himself.
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Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy.
The executive was flustered while dealing with the Shopping Avenger.
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Such a state, with a constitution and identical rights for all citizens, could guarantee long-term security in a way that the current fake peace doesn't.
The current state of peace doesn't guarantee long-term security
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They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
Airplanes are sometimes easy to hijack for terrorists.
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It has been tempting to see in Soutine's flayed forms a premonition of things to come.
No one cared to pay attention to Soutine's ideas.
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It's very simple, really--$5 million isn't worth five times as much as $1 million.
$5 million is worth more than $1 million.
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He's capable of much more than he usually gives.
He has found that not doing his best gets him by just fine.
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Graves hid out in the deep woods.
Graves was in the woods hiding.
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Entering Final Four weekend, I rank no higher than 12,277 th place in any of them.
Before Final Four Weekend I ranked higher than 12,277th place.
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For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it.
The UN can thrive without the United States.
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It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country.
It appeared frequently in book reviews internationally.
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I passed out and had to be carried home.
After being carried back home, I was assisted into bed and looked after for the rest of the night.
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Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran.
The agents courting rookies are white.
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It would do that other thing--succeed.
It will fail.
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Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?
Nike's and ABC's ideas have appeared irreconcilable.
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Hong Kongers are increasingly restless about Chinese rule.
Chinese rule is upsetting people from Hong Kong.
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A more honest summary might be We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops.
Caltech is the worst.
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If only there were creative writing schools in Heaven, or failing that, editors, we could hope that Jesus would learn how to improve on awful sentences like that.
In Heaven there are creative writing schools.
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Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
Proportionally, more Caucasians have jobs than Blacks.
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But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal.
Everyone aspires to being forgotten
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Also shown are a lot of stars--24 or 25, one of them could be a dust speck--symbolizing something to do with the sky or night time or celebrities or spaceships or celebrities in spaceships like in Star Wars . There are a helmet and some ferns or laurel, some kind of leaves, and a Latin motto, Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto, which, if I remember my Latin, means The Best People in This State Don't Have To Obey the Traffic Laws.
Stars look like many things.
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There is only one airline the Shopping Avenger believes understands the fundamentals of customer service, and that is Southwest Airlines.
Southwest Airlines is highly regarded by The Shopping Avenger.
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Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change.
Monica Lewinsky plans to reinvent herself once the legal troubles are over.
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The leading example of such an auction is the stock market.
The stock market shows auctions what not to do.
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Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion.
The fuel and communications networks are paltry supporting only a small percent of the population.
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But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.
Many of Yeltsin's recent appointments weren't brilliant but were suprising.
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The postal system was even more important for civil society and democratic politics than for commerce.
Commerce is the postal service's highest priority.
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Anyone who knows, please feel free to leak it to me.
I would accept leaked information.
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What's completely intolerable is to be accurately quoted and seen--even by yourself--to be no better than you actually are.
You see yourself as no better than you actually are.
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Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.
Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger really works.
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As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar).
The local lore and the all time classic are the exact same story.
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For years the store has declined to sell stickered music, i.e., pop songs whose lyrics are too saucy for your mall.
The store continued to stick to it's stance about not selling this kind of music, which would draw the ire of a few of it's customers.
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One vivid After the embassy bombing, Chinese officials produced an anti-NATO music video.
The Chinese embassy in Turkey was the target of the attack.
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Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten.
People often argue the history should sometimes be best forgotten.
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But the studio system in Hollywood disappeared while studio execs remained important as deal makers, and the same could happen in advertising.
Advertising is going this way next year.
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Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ...
It was a wise idea to take another look at this play.
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A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
It was obvious who owned Zapruder's film on the JFK assassination.
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And malignancy develops slowly.
A tumor grows at a snails pace.
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It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.
The NBA is probably devoid of young stable men.
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So, how did Caltech come out on top?
Caltech is in Canada
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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.
Romley served as County Clerk.
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.. It must be said that this kind of approach is very tricky.
This approach is tricky.
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5) Dueling spins : The New York Times says the scandal will dog and impede Clinton's foreign policy.
The New York Times reported about a scandal which may interfere with Clinton's foreign policy.
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We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.
Food in other countries is equally good as in America.
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Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch!
Mr. Goldberg is a woman.
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Democrats, unwilling to take another beating, folded, voting unanimously for the bill in full committee.
The Democrats' decision to vote unanimously was a result of their fear of the repercussions had they voted against the bill.
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Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.
Web advertisers reach paying subscribers.
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That's not an irrefutable disproof that discrimination exists, but it's at least a calculation that needs to be taken seriously.
Discrimination has been around since the early beginnings of the United States.
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A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques.
The editor loved the novel, after the review she signed a contract extention.
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I can imagine a channel devoted to such productions.
Many dedicated channels maintain a stable bottom base of spectators
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This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution.
She became an attorney general.
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It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids.
Their bids are already so low.
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He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan.
In the past, he's shown small biases towards a party.
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Of course the governors and the president managed to turn deficits into surpluses.
Governors and President took a bad fiscal situation and turned it into a good one.
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But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.
They have experienced more trouble than most people with it in the past.
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But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results.
Witzum and Rips had to conclude a certain way because choices were limited.
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Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.
The manufacturer is proud of the US position on drug policy.
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The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected.
The House failed to pass the partial-birth-abortion legislature.
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The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself.
The proofreader gets more than Cramer's share.
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I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash.
The author missed a couple of days online.
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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 won all of the Lawsuits brought against it.
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Patients could certainly get annoyed by having to take even a five-minute computer test every time they see a doctor.
Doctors no longer see patients and suggest a more holistic approach to medicine.
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Spot enforcement, well-publicized with blue flashing lights, is what maintains speed limits on the highway.
People obey the speed limits on highways if they think there is active spot enforcement.
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On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site).
Nixon seems to have been left out of appearing on tv shows like the Simpsons.
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What's to gain?
unable to come up with something false- to little information.
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After all, if an American publication like Slate finds itself subject to Britain's Official Secrets Act, this turns the Internet's promise of freedom on its head.
Slate completely understood the rationale behind Britain using this act.
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