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But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.
They received help with their math homework.
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No matter how fast we all run, someone must be behind.
Everybody is trying to run as fast as they can.
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This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.
This part of the story is less convincing than the sections that rely on archival records.
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Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.
Competition must be cutthroat and unfair.
contradiction
One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S.
The S in Untitled V serves as a metaphor for human subjectivity.
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John maintains his innocence from death row.
John really was innocent if the charges.
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The PKK has also bombed Turkish targets in Germany.
The Turkish Targets were bombed in Germany.
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Go-Gurt rang up $37 million in sales during its first year of limited distribution.
Go-Gurt's best selling item was strawberry flavor yogurt.
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Newsweek also hints that 13 Heaven's Gate members--the ground crew--may be traveling through the Southwest, waiting for a signal from the spaceship.
At its largest point, the Heaven's Gate cult is believed to have had only eleven members.
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This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Vic Fazio and Richard Gephardt often disagreed about which policies the Democratic party should favor.
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But Wellstone favors Kosovo intervention to stop the Holocaust-like atrocities occurring there.
Military intervention is the best method for stopping the human rights violations occurring in Kosovo.
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(Or to comment on his current incompetence--it's an open secret on the Hill that Thurmond has lost it.
Most people on the Hill know that Thurmond isn't capable anymore.
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The problem, though, is that the ADR phenomenon has created a situation where U.S. investors are pouring billions of dollars into companies whose standards of financial disclosure and corporate governance are dramatically different from our own and which are, in some cases, nonexistent.
Every business targetted by investors has clear fiscal and corporate disclosures.
contradiction
Encryption is OK because its authority is created in my very own machine.
Encryption is not okay, as it will prevent the machine from working.
contradiction
Right now, I'd settle for a creative genius who could teach us how to think about the population problem.
The population problem has to due with overcrowding in urban areas.
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Crest is the standard here, while Colgate products tend toward runniness.
Colgate products are runny overall.
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Kill 'em with kindness, and they don't know where to look.
You actually murder people with kindness.
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They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.
The group donates money to a political campaign.
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Do I just have the capacity to eat doughnuts and hamburgers and broccoli?
I may just have to be able to eat a lot.
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Mambo Italiano, and my personal favorite, Oooh, Bang, Jiggily Jang.
Mambo Italiano is only their 4th favorite song by the group.
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4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
The primary culprit of Syria's instability is the Palestinian need for control.
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It runs several new pictures of Lewinsky, including two that are embarrassingly revealing.
None of the pictures could cause any sort of embarrassment to anyone.
contradiction
The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.
the article gives the sense that Huffington is aware and very sharp.
contradiction
These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing.
The lack of funding was the only reason the improvements were not made.
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Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
Drew thought that they had a lot of time between the two presidential primary/caucus races to write off Forbes.
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In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.
The casinos will give the false impression that they care about their customers.
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Words are now rarely carved in stone
The tendency to carve words in stone only increases with time and is now at its historical peak.
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Restore national controls over global capital.
There are controls of global capital.
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His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.
Clinton has never been accused of sexual harassment.
contradiction
In the New York Times Book Review , Nicholas Lemann praises the Ms.
Nicholas Lemann writes for the New York Times Book reviews.
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The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India will soon pass China to first).
A scholar at an Indian university recently published a paper addressing possible issues stemming from Indonesian growth.
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On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle.
Tom was in a courthouse.
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However, most college-bound Colorado students take a different college entrance exam, making the SAT an unreliable measure of school quality.
There is more than one college entrance exam.
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At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.
I never found a proper way to finish the story.
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He doesn't cheat.
He tries hard.
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I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.
David is responding very enthusiastically and with positivity.
contradiction
Are we for affirmative action based on need, as I am, or based on race?
Affirmative action does not benefit some demographics.
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Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree.
Quayle and Bennett do not agree.
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IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.
Juan Antonio Samaranch spoke to the congressional committee.
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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 had only 400 employees in '95.
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Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.
Congress is contemplating whether they should be posted.
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Neither mother nor daughter is made distinctive this time around, except in the most heavy-handed way.
The mother and daughter did not stand out.
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Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred Beetle Barnes, pauses, and calls him Pat Buchanan.
John McLaughlin does not associate Fred Beetle Barnes with Pat Buchanan.
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The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
The market had been down for years.
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In other words, I write because I think it is right.
The author does not believe their writing provides any value.
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The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster.
Despite the negative economic signs, it is not indicative of a larger economic disaster.
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In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.
Intel-esque businesses are more valuable to the economy than their Planet Hollywood counterparts.
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We always knew they had it in them.
We always knew they would succeed.
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Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape.
Vouchers have some value.
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Either someone is privileged, or he is not.
No one can be privileged.
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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.
Lawyers would take up the copyright violation case.
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The Times speculated that NATO officials leaked the bad news to persuade Congress not to pull out the troops.
The troops wanted to stay there.
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It is hard to imagine, though, why any government would embargo such a product, unless the plastic surgeons' lobby has already got to them.
The government often embargo products.
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Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should.
The dessert is also delicious.
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MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.
MI contends intelligence is given at birth and needs no other talents.
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If McCain emerges as the nominee, Democrats will exploit his domestic weaknesses.
Obama's domestic policies were critical in order for him to defeat McCain.
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.
McDonald's is a mainstay in Hong Kong.
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Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up
The Tough Love Wrap-Up was Randy's own idea.
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The piece notes that the 10-year survival rate for heart transplants is an astonishing 60 percent, orders of magnitude higher than it was in the '70s.
The 20-year survival rates for heart transplant patients have not improved as rapidly as the 10-year survival rates.
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What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax).
More and more companies will try to reduce their pollution so as not to have to pay more taxes.
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New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution.
The New Englanders were armed and ready to battle immediately.
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Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine.
Murdoch's contributions to the Standard took place as part of a low-profile money-laundering scheme.
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Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.
Critics will go back to killings novels.
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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.
Most scholars don't think the exclusionary rule should be used to reverse a conviction.
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Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?
A Cold War confrontation could occur at any time.
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
It may take up to 7 days for the book to arrive.
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Today's Papers is sorry that the Journal wasn't curious enough to find out the average age of those CEOs.
The average age of those CEO's was 50 years old.
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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.
Most people think that a good race has no wrecks or injuries.
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Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.
Rothschild refused to try everything she could.
contradiction
Some of these Nobel Prize winners don't want to deal with empirical reality at all.
Nobel Prize winners are smart and educated.
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The most controversial part of Finkelstein's book, though, is the last chapter, in which he sets out to explain why the Goldhagen book was such a big deal.
Goldhagen is an enemy of Finkelstein.
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Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.
The Republicans were successful in framing the treaty as being bad for America.
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Visually we wanted to create a little bit of hope, a transition to the rest of the spot and the HRC logo, which picks up and repeats the color.
Repeating the color is one technique they used in order to create a sense of hope.
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Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
Microsoft has wind-powered factories.
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Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.
Schools make accommodations for learning disabilities.
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Remember when he looked us in the eye?
He never looked us in the eye.
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Also, check out this illustrated, in-depth exploration of Beck's fashion choices.)
Beck has note-worthy fashion choices.
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That possibility has to do with the rapid-fire e-mail exchange format of Slate 's Book Club in which it appeared.
Slate's book club only communicated through emails.
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Adequately warned, why do people persist in sucking cancer-causing tars into their lungs?
I do not know why people want to smoke tobacco products.
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And has the following point been made on the Op-Ed that Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty have chosen to attack centrist Democrats as cynical sellouts who ignore American poverty just when, according to the Census Bureau, those cynical centrists are making the greatest strides against poverty that have been made in my adult lifetime?
Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty do not discuss political issues in their articles.
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Perhaps people who work in group settings where some hand is always out can start a reverse Limit forced-march giving to $2.
Some people who work in group settings would find it inconvenient to start a reverse limit forced-march.
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Don't be surprised when it flops.
don't be shocked when it fails.
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This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.
Soft money is a contributing factor as to why practices are criticized and scrutinized.
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Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Karen Finley used her body for art.
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In those circumstances, Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya might have written it.
There is no evidence to suggest that Dr. Astrov wrote the text.
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It would be shorter once you got the hang of it.
You'll eventually complete it in under 15 minutes.
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It is not that I expect anything practical.
I always expect the most practical ideas.
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The report also cites China's transparent intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties when it assumes control of the territory in July.
China doesn't want to abolish the liberties of Hong Kong.
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Then the electricity hits him again, and the fire rises from his head, from the black leather mask, and he shudders forward and is slammed back against the chair.
The man is receiving his death sentence by the electric chair.
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Their actual relationship was more complicated.
Their relationship was smooth sailing.
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Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters.
It has nothing to do with letters.
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The authors claim to demonstrate that high IQ is more predictive of economic success than any other factor, and that low IQ is more predictive of poverty and social breakdown.
The authors claim that people will low IQ are more likely to have economic success.
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American Beauty won three Golden Globes, including Best Drama . Acting awards went to Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry , Denzel Washington for The Hurricane , Janet McTeer for Tumbleweeds , and Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon . HBO series, including the critically hyped The Sopranos , won most of the television awards.
Several HBO series won awards.
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Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.
Clinton is not corrupt.
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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
There is more than one reason I have.
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Time 's Terry Teachout says the 75-minute work's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, [and] its structure maddeningly repetitious.
According to Teachout, the work is monotonous and uninteresting.
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Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.
Henry James loved the historical novel he read, and expressed as much in a letter.
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The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region.
The region is located in Southeast Asia.
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Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.
No one ever return to their parents after they leave.
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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 had favorable views of fascism.
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