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Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day).
Because Thursday is Thanksgiving our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday.
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Entire conferences and whole scholarly volumes have been devoted to this catechism, with roughly the same results.
Large books have been dedicated to the Christian knowledge with similar results.
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There isn't much room in Schor's schema for even the interesting curlicues of spending culture, such as the joy in finding a bargain or personal variances in taste (e.g.
Schor discusses personal spending habits.
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Any nontechnologist ventures into the browser wars at his peril, but here is how I understand After initially missing the significance of the Internet, Microsoft has gone to the other extreme, designing Windows 95 so that it uses an Internetlike metaphor for everything.
Microsoft 95 has been created by a different pool of engineers than the one that created MS-Dos
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One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments.
The free-lancer did this often.
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Podhoretz implies that Sharpton's behavior is both representative of and entirely in keeping with the character of African-Americans in general.
Podhoertz' conclusions are wrong.
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The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.
The Degas family’s nobility was mainly focused in mining.
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But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.
Behavioral scientists fail to recognize that people are animals.
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He's just finished Isaac's Storm, a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and reads Robert Parker's detective-for-hire stories.
The Galvestone hurricane is the first one registered in the past century
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Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.
Time mentions that, while inspired, the new system is too expensive.
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But from Aumann and Maschler's work, we know that if you've found one consistent solution, you've found them all.
There is a study that theorizes the outcome of the finding of solutions
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Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves.
The costs outweigh the benefits for them.
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In this particular case, the buyers come to Las Vegas to purchase the goods rather than having them shipped out of the city, but the economics are the same.
The particular case has buyers in Las Vegas shipping them out of the city.
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Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.
Burton doesn't think it's a valid question.
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Nevertheless--the nevertheless paragraph ineluctably follows the to be sure one--it would be a mistake to try to turn back the clock.
It would be good to change what has happened.
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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.
The film received critical acclaim upon release.
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Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.
The culture is not considered to be very normal.
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They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children.
They wish teenagers would mature quicker and make their own decisions.
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The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared.
Campaign finance could be cleaned up if anyone cared.
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But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero.
Vampire movies tend to follow the same pattern of a physical battle with humans.
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Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.
Most people look on a mook with sympathy.
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The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
Time has aged well over the years with all it's changes.
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Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.
Despite it's serious content, Millionaire's manager lacks sobriety.
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But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.
The Wall Street Journal confirms evidence of a conspiracy.
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This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!
Bootstrap arguments effectively turn around the potential of a broken rule
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His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dala's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dala was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments.
Dala was pro-fascist in his beliefs.
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I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.
The man received criticism for waiting until the article was published.
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Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...
Tim considers them to have other choices but that are less reasonable for them.
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But, hey, where is the millennium?
The millennium's location is not readily apparent.
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Well, not behind it per se.
Most English speakers understand he phrase, 'per se.'
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It works by releasing hydrogen peroxide to break up or remove the color from organic materials but is gentle enough that it won't affect most fabric dyes.
Sometimes hydrogen peroxide could affect some fabric dyes.
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If you can use viral marketing and Abercrombie & Fitch in the same sentence, you too can be a Gen Y pundit.
All Gen Y are into Abercrombie and Fitch.
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The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.
The breach of security resulted in the investigation of the Pentagon.
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President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Bill Clinton had a meeting yesterday in London.
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After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston.
The review caused a flood of peaceful and happy phone calls and letters
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complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.
she is on the same page that their co-residents are horrific.
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Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.
The Great Depression has been ignited even by pessimistic attitudes
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But the racism charge isn't quirky or wacky--it's demagogy.
Racism is taught to people in some schools.
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If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles.
A belief in one God indicates that this God may pick and choose what it rules over.
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Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.
The book on mathematician John F. Nash Jr. was released just recently.
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Even if they use the meat.
The meat uses the meat.
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Rosenthal, and other conservatives for their flirtations with Farrakhan.
Many conservatives may agree with Farrakhan's beliefs.
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Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.
It is cold in the Northeast this week.
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It's as though the book was not edited at all.
The book was free of grammatical errors.
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I can imagine a channel devoted to such productions.
A dedicated channel can specialize in a kind of productions and later change road without losing any spectator
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We wonder if they, too, would feel uncomfortable with our differences made so plainly apparent.
They were curious if others would feel uncomfortable knowing their differences.
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Almost nothing is going to happen if a majority must already favor it before any political leader will speak out in its favor.
Minority opinions shape political leaders.
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He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley.
She very much desires to run and is uninterested in being in the background.
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It forces us to justify doing otherwise.
It makes us give a reason for the things that are occurring.
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By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman.
Lots of individuals would acknowledge the behaviors of the Baldwins, and talk about them for many years to come.
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And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...
You are meeting a bunch of Americans.
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But there is a more fruitful way to look at He is the first high-profile newspaper man in a long time who actually believes in newspapers.
It is fruitful to look at him as the first newspaper man who believes in newspapers in a long time.
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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.
We talk about fashion, but only in the shallowest ways.
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It is hard to imagine a smaller step than the one Greenspan took.
Greenspan ended up taking a step.
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With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.
Rudy Giuliani will keep the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in Manhattan.
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(His colleagues feel he's a showboat and a camera hog, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.)
He is often shy in front of cameras.
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Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment.
Lind debunks several other strategies to ascertain one accepted by the masses.
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Twenty-four terms is enough for anyone.
Twenty-five terms is too much.
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
Not everyone can do his dance.
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Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course).
The three were asked to keep their thoughts about the past to themselves and to refrain from sharing them.
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Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.
The show was loved by viewers and scheduled for another season.
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An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).
Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis are easily preoccupied by fashion models.
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He Moves in Mysterious Proving himself as adept with a parable as with a football, Rep.
His movement has been compared to a football in action.
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, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.
Using explosives is a crime which may cause prosecution in a federal court.
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I think Wolfe is right about the potential of this kind of novel, one that takes us through unexplored precincts of our own society while spinning a good yarn.
They agree with Wolfe regarding the novel and think it is unique in its exploration of our society.
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Mambo Italiano, and my personal favorite, Oooh, Bang, Jiggily Jang.
My favorite song is Mambo Italiano.
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For example, the engineers of the battalion exposed to sarin showed no higher illness rates than others.
Engineers exposed to sarin had much higher rates of illness.
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One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges at all.
When an indictment is put into effect, the defendant is charged with the plaintiff's crime.
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At the time, only Canada, thanks to its giant neighbor, lived in anything like the world he envisaged; today we all do.
Canada, too, assisted the United States in a multitude of ways.
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Now I find I hate returning e-mails.
I would rather send a text message.
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But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.
Nicholson made the investigators' job impossibly difficult after climbing into a Russian Embassy car.
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And U.K. giant British Telecom purchased MCI.
Irish Telethon was bought by NCI.
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9. Don't define yourself merely by your enemy.
It's good to use someone you hate to define yourself.
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What's different about the late 1990s' version?
How is the late 1990's version any different?
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Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ...
Aaron Whiteheard claimed it had been silent that night.
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The bar on male behavior has been substantially lowered, and this is feminists' own fault.
Men are completely to blame for this drop.
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The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom.
The Times always does undercover work on their own colleagues.
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Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.
Hanson and Fuller did not wok together on any film.
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Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book.
Imagine visiting my web site.
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The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact.
The vampire suffered from complete paralysis and required voluntary blood donations to survive.
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No adult ever played with Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers.
Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles are not things that adults play with.
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The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.
The Post was wondering is they watched the TCM features.
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They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences.
No one thinks Washington can do anything about the bad consequences of the economy.
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The High-Minded Dismissal.
Because of the dismissal of the high-minded, things would start to get better.
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Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign.
The lump in Gifford's breast was cancer.
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I have a Pavlovian reaction to the pre-title black-white-and-red bit with Monty Norman's theme and the gun site roving over the latest 007 as he saunters to the center of the frame--I go, Kill 'em, Bond!
The author really enjoys watching James Bond movies.
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For sure, however, Microsoft has mainly been restrained by the knowledge that any crude use of its power would indeed land it in court.
Microsoft has very little resources and power.
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Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover.
The man was one of many liberal figures who phoned Carlson.
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As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee.
Arnold Schwarzenegger drives a sport utility vehicle.
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More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial.
Racial identity never changes.
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It's a real strain on our relationship to have her parents and grandparents letting her know that they think I am unworthy.
Her parents do not like him.
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The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.
Russia's army remained largely intact following the breakup of the USSR.
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And this means that capital is not playing its necessary disciplining role.
Capital can play a disciplinary role.
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Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory.
The pitcher is intent on getting the strike out.
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NBC had fired him a year and a half ago after he pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex.
He was sent to jail for a few months after pleading guilty.
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Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.
National monetary authorities create a terrific safety net for global financial markets.
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The WP reports on last Saturday night's Gridiron Dinner, that annual Washington D.C. court masque in which bigfoot journalists entertain the government's heaviest hitters and vice-versa.
Journalists are unable to attend the annual event, it is just Government and doctors in attendance.
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Who is the chairman of the Microsoft Corp.?
Who is the chairman of the Microsoft Corp is unknown to everyone.
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As Lost in the Funhouse notes, Kaufman actually joined Lawler on the professional circuit and traveled across the country in a kind of touring carnival.
Cross country travel would become unnecessary for Kaufman after joining Lawler.
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If I write a new diagnosis in a patient's chart, I have to indicate what I plan to do about it.
Doctors try to be precise when they write their findings in their client's charts.f
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