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(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.)
Random House promptly answered his calls.
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On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults.
Teenagers are tried as children when they commit crimes.
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He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
Leonard Bernstein didn't have many bad concerts.
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Best name for a male-marketed Testosterone.
Testosterone is marketed to men.
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The film gives the impression that Flynt has none, although he has five--to the best of his knowledge.
He has five now, but gets more throughout the course of the film.
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This column, as my first in the Strange Bed, is free of history.
Those who read the column were hoping it was intense.
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He did so with surety, using the elbow of his bad arm to steady himself at the threshold, then raising both fists in a stretch.
He cared deeply for his friends and did everything he could to help them.
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They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls the logic of brute, irreversible facts.
Arafat is chastised for bowing to the logic of straight facts.
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MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.
Intelligence cannot be measured by any defined focuses.
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They may want to consult an astrophysicist as well as a plastic surgeon.
They will avoid talking to an astrophysicist and plastic surgeon.
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But still Wendy Wasserstein eludes us.
We definitedly understand Wend Wasserstein.
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And so when I picked up a copy of Bionomics , the first thing I did was check out the author's treatment of my heroes and of what I knew to have been the important . His record was Not one of the right people was mentioned, not one of the key developments discussed.
All copies of Bionomics do not mention the right person, according to the narrator.
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In criticizing the ability of the exclusionary rule to reverse a conviction, he The wrong done was the search, not the conviction.
The conviction was more important than the search.
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Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?
The United States Senator from Kansas was interested in bananas.
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It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids.
They are quite new in the profession and still learning the ropes.
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Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding!
Al Gore has lost a lot of his money.
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Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.
The film was shot in Chicago.
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The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start Ms.
Janna Malamud Smith thinks rules for truth-telling don't need to be worldly.
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(She'll need the dough to cover her legal expenses--see The Nation , below.)
She is going through a nasty divorce.
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In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality.
Landsburg holds a masters degree in sociology.
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead.
The leader of Chinas political rival passed away from old age.
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Why are you coming at me with that pillow?
Someone is questioning why they are going to be hit with a pillow.
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Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.
If it's done late, it seems glib to the railroad workers.
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(And we have reached a degree of liberation that permits me to think of these potholes as Mayor Barry's potholes without feeling guilty of racism.)
When an agreement is reached one never feels racisist.
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and she was talking gibberish.
What she said made no sense.
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Starr is much more likely to be interested in Steele herself and in why she changed her story.
Starr could care less about Steele and why she changed her.
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In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen.
Exposing masher Sen was delayed by the paper.
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Bombing the crap out of Third World countries and aspirin factories when you need a quick pick-me-up at the polls.
Acetylsalicylic acid manufacturers are unaware of their relationships to the polls.
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Would the story have broken if not for the Web?
The author wants to praise the importance of the Web.
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perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.
She goes to a busy hotel in Honolulu.
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High Crimes is supposed to show that Clinton's enemies have a strong legal case against him.
Clinton has never committed any crimes.
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They need more openness, not less.
They need to be more isolated.
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Ajami's book is an indispensable guide to why anyone in the Arab world still listens to it.
The essential information can be found in Ajami's book.
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In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.
Hermes-like silk scarves are not very popular among secular females in Istanbul.
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His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.
Kathleen Willey is accusing Clinton of sexual harrassment.
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He is troubled over whether to accept donations from the professional kirkbuzzers'* guild.
The Kirkbuzzers' guild has never donated anything.
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According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
John Podhoretz is averse to bad publicity for the magazine.
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One answer is that the speed with which sexy-sounding scientific ideas get picked up by popular culture is getting alarmingly from Physical Review Letters to the latest best seller by Tom Peters almost before you know it.
Most people do not generally care about new scientific ideas.
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He likes to cite Kerouac's I am not anti-anything (except racists and certain big corporations).
Kerouac is seen as a hypocrite.
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First, it loses sales of Windows 95.
Windows 95 will lose sales, and eventually be replaced.
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A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.
The movie is described as thoughtful and original.
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As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells.
Harkin was alarmed the hearing ended.
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By time-shifting this feel-good scene forward, Man on the Moon relieves the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline.
Tom Cruise starred in Man on the Moon
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To track all of this month's four-star movies, check out the TV-Now website Four Star Movies February TV Schedule.
You should look at the schedule for the movies this February if you want to see highly-rated movies.
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Many News Quiz responses were rejected by Slate 's e-mail server.
Slate's email server accepted all incoming messages.
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3 billion bill for the U.S.
A bill for the U.S. For 3 billion
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The clearest proof of the new left's poverty is what Clinton and Blair have to say about the middle class.
Clinton and Blair spoke about the ordinary people.
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Ataterk was the founder of modern Turkey, which is no mean accomplishment (what have you done with your life?)
Ataterk gave up on the goal of founding the country.
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(He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.)
People who quote themselves in their books may have huge egos.
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In the publicity leading up to the release of Showgirls , Eszterhas gave interview after interview about the importance of the movie, of its deep moral message, its serious purpose.
Eszterhas thought the piece was merely a casual take on entertainment.
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The effort to convert won into dollars and other foreign currencies depressed the value of the won, despite the Korean government's efforts to sustain it by using its reserves.
The won strengthened in value against the dollar because of efforts of the government.
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Newsweek 's cover package, pegged to the release of Steven Spielberg's film Amistad , assesses the legacy of slavery.
Newsweek was intentional in timing their cover package precisely with the release of the motion picture.
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Plimpton got lost in his list at one point, but despite referring to one of the contributors to the display's soundtrack as Cecille Dion, he brought to the event his patrician sonorities and his fabled familiarity with fireworks.
Plimpton referred to Celine Dion.
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Obviously, it's easy for me to complain about players who aren't big on self-effacement or deference to authority.
The author goads players on to disrespect law officers.
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They're political.
They care about politics.
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After-school prayer clubs skirt church-state separation laws and are popping up in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country.
Theses prayer clubs are popping up all over the country.
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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 is not really false.
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This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries.
The way conflict is handled overseas is best done if we treat them like they are little children.
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God knows he's prepared for it.
He is underprepared and God knows.
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Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?
The location of Helgeland's movie will take place in a rural location during a well-known time period.
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But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.
The hypotheses that Lang believes are majorly confirmed are false.
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Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.
The cult of Picasso was seen to want to kill many people.
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Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language.
Critics thought Cities of the pain was more inventive than All the Pretty Horses and the Crossing.
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His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling.
Fallingwater is falling apart if not for metal supports.
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Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.
The patient cannot be revived with two exercises.
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Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy.
Most likely, Starr's goal is to unravel a cover-up conspiracy.
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Some evidence from public records is suggestive.
All of the evidence is suggestive.
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A few of the more bearable Hotel Bill, Cash Inn, China Pattern, The John Wilkes Toll Booth, Sheets for Treats.
Cash Inn is panned by the author as unbearable.
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Of course the information-technology sector has been wonderfully successful--but that is because it has been in a position to exploit the extraordinary possibilities offered by photolithography, not because of any special virtue in the way it operates.
The information-technology sector has been wonderfully successful.
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(DiGenova says it has since issued five subpoenas and has a hearing scheduled for late next month.)
DiGenova expects a few of those subpoenaed to not appear.
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North American Man Boy Like Association.
There is an association for man boy like people.
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Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of.
Roosevelt and Truman and bigger issues and hand so never considered a grand design for a free world.
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The White House says there's no such system.
They are telling the truth.
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Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.
Unborn children can get a 30% discount on ebooks
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The bears are holding up what might be a dinner plate that says, United We Stand Divided We Ball, indicating a surprisingly open marriage or that the ink smeared.
The bears are holding up a plate that indicates they oppose open marriage.
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When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks.
When you press the pump on the top nothing happens.
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They seemed to enjoy it, and it was extremely helpful to us.
It was of great value to us.
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The man has the intellectual honesty of a hired gun.
He has the brain smarts of a professional.
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Starr was putting his own guys to sleep.
His own guys were put to sleep by Starr.
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It can be a bit like a claustrophobic small town, where your private life is part of the public dialogue.
Living in a small town makes you feel like everybody knows your business.
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In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.
The teen-age boys often were unsure of which painter they liked best.
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Dll stands for dynamic-link library, and .dll files are small chunks of computer code that are intended to be shared by more than one application.
Immense chunks of computer code are called .dll files.
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The United States abandoned its policy of stabilizing gold prices back in 1971.
The policy of stabilizing gold prizes may be brought back in the future.
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Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale.
Waas was often called out for his shoddy reporting in the Los Angeles Times article that he co-wrote.
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Forty thousand of us die that way each year.
At least forty thousand of us die each year.
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2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus.
The Antichrist is guaranteed to be Jewish.
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For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.
Carpetbagger charge is related to the church.
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All I missed was something more than winks and hints about the nature of the triangle among Cahill, his wife, and her sister (the lush Angeline Ball), with whom he fathered several children.
Cahill has more than one child.
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. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw.
Neanderthals were famous for the drawings they left behind.
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Perverse as this may sound, Hitler is one reason why.
It is perfectly acceptable to believe Hitler is one of the reasons.
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Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance.
To encourage less tax evasions for businesses, it might help if the very high tax rates were reduce.
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Unless, of course, when it comes to Internet shares there is no sensible middle.
It is obviously contingent on Internet shares.
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McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is.
McCain despises Roosevelt.
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It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less.
It didn't measure the real GDP of the workers.
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As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.
The author interrogates someone about a woman's lies about the President.
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I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship.
You should develop a closer bond if your friend tells you that you will love Happy, Texas.
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Before NATO began bombing Yugoslavia March 24, the proposed Rambouillet solution--restoring Kosovo's autonomy but not granting it independence--seemed like a plausible outcome.
The Rambouillet solution was a plausible outcome before the bombing in Yugoslavia began.
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But, except on election night, these were a relatively small part of their Web sites, let alone their overall news.
It was a minor portion of the site save for election night.
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That much his memoir gets right.
He decided to never write a memoir and stuck to it.
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The sportswriters were tapping on their laptops.
The writers sat still, motionless.
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