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Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten.
History has been ruled out as factor in all lives.
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For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.
I intend to write a scientific paper on the topic of income inequality.
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Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven?
People think about heaven and hell.
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They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.
William Ginsburg is no longer with the company.
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Another option is to blend spandex with fleece to make it stretchier and more form-fitting.
If spandex and fleece are blended together they become hard as a rock.
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, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it.
Bush would continue in his approach, in terms of how he dealt with such matters, as concerning Pakistan, and situations with nations like it, to the chagrin of his detractors.
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If such evidence is present, return Kennewick Man to his rightful tribal reservation.
The fate of Kennewick Man is a matter of morality.
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Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.
Hilary's essay appeared in an issue a few weeks ago.
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Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
Wolff ignores any sure thing in his judgement.
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This is too bad, because Pokemon is undoubtedly much smarter and more charming than what will supplant it.
The author tries to see the unseen values in Pokemon.
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Utah looks like my dream come true.
I dreamed of Utah years ago.
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It's probably therapeutic for Slate's two warriors to be taking time out from their inquiries into the House Budget or Travelgate to organize their thoughts on their place in the universe.
Slate's warriors are taking a break.
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They call it tantric sex.
Tantric sex is what it's called by them.
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a) Had an adulterous affair with a young intern.
She had an affair after discovering the young intern caused an affair in their marriage.
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A better explanation is that males' reproductive fate depends more strongly than females' on competing when they are young.
Males compete more than females when they are young on their reproductive rate.
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But these actors also convey the sense of an internal furnace of pain and anxiety that gives fevered glow to such minutiae (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). However, the play itself is found wanting.
The actors did well to portray their inner satisfaction.
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Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters.
Chekhov's phases were seen as unimpressive.
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Other news from 1) British Prime Minister John Major announced that a new national election will be held May 1. Polls show the opposition Labor Party leading by nearly 2-to-1.
The leader may lose this extra voting period.
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Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright.
If we played the voicemail our lawyers would call it legal.
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At worst, he is amassing credentials, fame, and wealth on the basis of others' uncredited labor--once considered a scholarly sin.
Crediting labor is a scholarly sin.
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He had a video camera attached to the ceiling, which recorded every move.
The actions in the room were being recorded.
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This is why managed care is a genuinely confusing Should voters believe the anecdotes, which are real and horrifying, or should they accept the evidence that people are mostly happy with their own insurance, happy to be paying less, and as healthy as they have ever been?
A majority of voters went with believing the anecdotes.
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If she fails to respond, he said, the House will have no choice but to call for the vice president's impeachment.
After she responded, the Vice President resumed his duties.
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Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97.
Karenna had no work experience.
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The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney.
This is the first job for the new museum head.
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McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is.
McCain makes a claim that Roosevelt is his hero.
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Go-Gurt rang up $37 million in sales during its first year of limited distribution.
Go-Gurt failed miserably after a few months on the market
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Dr. Richards, can you write a prescription for the tabloids?
Richards is tasked with refusing to give someone a prescription.
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All of these measures together will not cause the ghettos to disappear.
The sitution within the ghettos had ended a long time ago.
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Kill 'em with kindness, and they don't know where to look.
Showing kindness to people is more effective than being rude according to psychologists.
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Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.
Quindlen’s book was portrayed as an autobiography.
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The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.
The people of the country think highly of the Dayton accord.
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But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press.
AOL is paying Time Warner some money.
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Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.
Tudjman looks fantastic in Il Duce-style uniforms.
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The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
The government has verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
They are the same in geysers or in the ocean floor.
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So--contrary to what we're told by orthodox economic theory--two individuals with exactly the same preferences and exactly the same opportunities can adopt dramatically different attitudes toward saving.
The two individuals get different results everytime.
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We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance.
Paltrow is a palpable cock-tease.
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Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large.
Quota sampling states that Internet users hold the same views in an age range as all other people.
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But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries.
More races are being created from the diverse mass of people.
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Do I just have the capacity to eat doughnuts and hamburgers and broccoli?
Broccoli's gross, man.
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
Russian Israelis are never wanting to be associated with Russia.
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That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.
The author isn't fond of the chief beneficiary.
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Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower.
Hurricanes in the future could be much more destructive than they are today.
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With the global economy showing signs of coming apart at the seams, it is truly disappointing that the leaders of the two countries who ought to be co-operating to prevent a worldwide crisis are having to struggle for their own political lives, it said.
The leaders who could have helped the economic crisis were struggling for their political lives.
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McCain's media cheering section neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy.
Those cheering for McCain ignore his positions on taxes and healthcare.
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Newsweek also runs an essay from Clinton-loyalist-cum-moralist George Stephanopoulos, who urges the prez to come clean.
George Stephanopoulos wants to urge a hired government official to come clean.
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Fox President and CEO Rich Cronin called this separate-but-equal programming an effort to superserve children, adding, We will not stereotype in any way.
The CEO of the large television network, Fox, claimed they would not use stereotypes.
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That problem was there at the beginning, when meritocracy appeared to have triumphed, whether at the University of California or Yale, and it is still with us.
The problem might be related to nepotism
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Less well known, if less salacious, is the fact that in 1915, the Presbyterian moralist Woodrow Wilson, then a recent widower, used agents to run interference for him in his amorous pursuits.
Woodrow Wilson was hypocritical in matters of love
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As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers.
America and British new organizations have checks in place to make sure they are offering a wide variety of information to people surfing the web.
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But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
Drugs are given out sparingly.
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She says Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift has gone beyond the call of duty to earn [her] presidential kneepads.
Eleanor Clift works at the New York Times.
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A writer recounts his experience as a phone psychic.
The writer had plenty of interesting conversations with customers during their time as a phone psychic.
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Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.
The law is hard to distinguish if the page has a hyperlink to the specific picture in question.
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But the most affecting act is the kaddish , the statement of mourning that a son says on the death of his father.
The kaddish is so impactful because a son can speak about his father in death, better than he could during life.
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(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.)
The opinions were the correct ones.
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You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)
HTML mail and Preview Pane are lackluster features to go along with the rest.
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The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.
Gay Catholics are happy about the shift in emphasis
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It is true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than 5 percent, but it is equally true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than reasonable.
Jurors consider what doubts are reasonable.
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He is not an economics writer
He would like to write about economics.
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If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.
Close's art depicts real objects.
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And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.
Influence peddlers create good will on Capital Hill.
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Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
The Iowa caucus comes before the New Hampshire primary.
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Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement.
The police officers attacked a Jewish settlement.
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But some are responding to the fleeting hormonal surges of youthful idealism, or to the special status hierarchy of the academic subculture where they temporarily reside.
The special status hierarchy of the academic subculture is a system that some respond to.
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In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.
This liberal program is abusive to the poor but lucrative for the rich.
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4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams.
The superstar excepts the industry to find the money from somewhere to pay him.
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During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all.
The outside creditors were pleased with the bailouts that they had received, and they would continue to receive favors from Rubin in the future.
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We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production.
The food system attained the impossible, even when classic economists said it couldn't.
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You've got to get Tripp to give him the go-ahead.
Tripp is the leader, he has the say-so.
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Once all the world smiled benignly when an adult took an interest in a scoutmaster and troop, priest and altar boy--what could be more wholesome?
A scoutmaster and troop, as well as a priest and alter boy were taken interest in by an adult.
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Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as pets, that's a personal choice.
Believing in the domestication of animals is a personal choice.
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The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead.
people stopped being interested in general-interest weekly magazines last year.
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lowest-ranked playoff team in their division ever to accomplish this feat.
The team was the highest-ranked team in the division that year.
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Why would Gates allow the publication of such a book with his byline and photo on the dust jacket?
It is rather curious why Gates would allow himself to appear in the book.
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Willey might have a better case against Clinton if she wants to make it--and if her story is true.
Willey assaulted Clinton
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John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that.
His proposition was American culture sneers at men.
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House Majority Whip Tom DeLay has a plaque in his office that reads, This could be the day.
This could be the day is what the plaque by the desk reads.
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Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building.
His 27 years running the Standard Oil Company was physically taxing for Rockefeller.
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I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair.
It received a positive review from most critics.
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Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young?
He lied to young people.
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But (as Stein pointed out in the Committee), every dollar Social Security invests privately, instead of lending to the Treasury (as happens now), is an extra dollar the government must borrow from private capital markets to finance the national debt.
The government borrows money only from large private capital markets.
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Birch pointed out that conservatives defend serial and childless heterosexual marriages, but the whole topic was a loser for her.
The judgements behind this defense is clearly and calmly laid out.
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It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that.
Things are unclear regarding Beatty.
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and that's when you get hit by the meteorite.
Often I feel like I been hit by a meteorite.
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Now they are claiming they have no money and can't afford a wedding.
They spent their money on paying bills and groceries.
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It is not my intention to give anti-Semitism any support whatever, wrote Marc Dem, as he argued that Jews were from outer space.
Marc Dem assumes that calls Jews aliens doesn't make him anti-Semitic.
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I think there's a piece there, Joyce.
Joyce can't find the piece she's looking for.
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That's the only thing that'll overcome the meat-grinding aspects of national politics.
People have made several proposals to deal with certain aspects of national politics.
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I still get up when a woman enters the room, open a door for her, and offer my seat on a bus.
I open doors for women and stand when they enter a room.
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Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?
Kanas state famers grow large crops of bananas
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Newsweek also runs an essay from Clinton-loyalist-cum-moralist George Stephanopoulos, who urges the prez to come clean.
Stephanopoulos is asking Clinton to come clean.
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That's what you do.
It cannot be done.
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Renaissance Florence.
Over time, the Renaissance came and went, and Florence was of no significance to the period.
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That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change.
Circumstances never change and theories will always hold true.
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Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras) has a wild-man intensity--part Ezra Pound, part Jerry Garcia--accentuated by Close's one-time experimentation with a radiating circular grid.
Lucas II is a painting.
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Mavens can discern between makers at a glance.
Mavens feel they are exactly like makers.
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Read him his rights for what crime?
I don't know where he is.
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But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?
One is correct with the answer no.
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