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The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.
The talking animals are the main characters of a movie.
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The private quarters, a k a the residence, occupy the second and third floors of the White House.
The White House has private quarters for the presidential family.
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But unlike the Manhattan Project--in fact, like no other Big Science project in history--the Genome Project has equipped itself with a research division to explore the social and ethical ramifications of genetics.
The Genome Project works on social and ethical ramifications of genetics.
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More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.
Huang Yong Ping is a very talented artist.
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Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).
Feminists continued listening to Arendt's use of language.
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I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.
I was led down an abandoned alley paved with cobblestones.
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The Washington Post called him everyone's favorite Arab moderate.
The statement was made by the news corporation, The Washington Post.
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Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.
Inflation can be the sign of a weakening economy.
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It was simply to say the industry is prepared to make revolutionary changes in its behavior if it gets some protection from these giant suits, and this is a good deal for the public.
A goal of the industry is to get protection from the giant suits.
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In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism.
Archer is a United States Senator.
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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.
Fox President and CEO Rich Cronin apologized for stereotyping happening at the network.
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Few bounty hunter training programs exist--the most frequently attended programs are 20-hour courses that cover only basic legal constraints.
There are many bounty hunter training programs.
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While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians, says Stuart Klawans.
Conservatives universally approve of the actions of Bulworth.
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The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
The scenes near the end were not pleasant to watch.
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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.
Patients may not enjoy taking the computer test even if it is relatively short.
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Then one of two things must Your taxes will rise by $10,000, or else, your share of the debt will rise by $10,000.
Your taxes and your debt will rise by $10,000 each.
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I am at play right now.
Can't change my mind.
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Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.
The health care system was over-stressed a few years ago.
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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
There is a clear connection between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
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The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.
There are more lessons we're supposed to learn.
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This July, Sen.
Sen, this July.
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In the New York Review of Books , for example, the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, one of the chief modern villains of Orientalism , decried Said's inflammatory tone and questioned his knowledge of history, philology, and Arabic.
Bernard Lewis disliked Said on a personal level.
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3 billion bill for the U.S.
The bill has $3billion in expenditures in it.
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Moreover, typical viewers aren't apt to stumble upon these sites.
The websites are well-known.
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T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system.
T. Temple Tuttle's stance on this issue is widely disputed amongst his peers.
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Nebraska, of course, gets a '5.
Unfortunately, Nebraska could only attain a 3.
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Lifeboats have been constructed for the top dozen employees.
The lifeboats are able to hold more than 10 employees if needed.
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
New forms of organizing socially do much more than draw people away from previous ways of associating.
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That said, I am now officially Hillary'd out.
I am tired of Hillary.
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Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.
An Italian shmuck is nothing like a gavone or mook.
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Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?
Shouldn't the permission to narrow have preceded the wire?
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John F. Kennedy repeated it 16 times in his Inaugural Address, and Richard Nixon has it 22 times in his second one.
Nixon has said it 99 times in his second Inaugural Address, and JFK repeated it 72 times.
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Slate's Ann Hulbert says Hochschild overstates her The truth is that home hasn't suddenly become work.
Home has essentially become work, according to Ann Hulbert of Slate.
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Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.
They spend money on needless items such as clothes and expensive cars.
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Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.
There is a new schooling for multiple languages.
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In cases like this, it's the economist's job to explain where we ought to be headed, and the political scientist's job to explain why we can't get there from here.
Political scientist's rely on spin and disinformation.
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Does W. agree with this sentiment?
W. is an authority figure.
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Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose.
Years of negligent culminated in many teeth needing to be replaced by implants.
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Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes.
The judge was very polite towards the White House.
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Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.
A Swedish penis enlarger was featured in Austin Powers' movie.
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I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship.
Happy Texas makes people happy.
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(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.)
The baseball season was very long.
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b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies.
Clinton did not lose all his allies.
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All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost.
The Compost keeps an archive of past materials.
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But the solution is not to give up on special prosecutors.
The special prosecutors are useless and unnecessary.
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The industry now plans to strengthen warnings that children should be kept, appropriately harnessed, in the back seat, where they will be neither helped nor harmed by air bags.
The recent intensity of newer airbags has prompted the industry to make the warnings stronger.
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Time 's education cover package says parents should get their kids reading at an early age, be involved in their schools, not castigate them for mistakes, let them find their own learning styles, and praise hard work and persistence--not just outcomes.
According to the education package, it argues that children should begin reading as early as they can.
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Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.
The fans liked her even more when she became a Vogue cover model.
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Regular Sunday reviewers, on the model of Cyril Connolly, the longtime critic for the Sunday Times , become trusted guides.
The Sunday Times didn't think that reviews should be shown in the paper.
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Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose.
The labor movement is largely focused on improving hazardous working conditions.
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Crest is the standard here, while Colgate products tend toward runniness.
Aquafresh had become the toothpaste by which all others are measured.
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The 15-year-old died with the band playing on his headphones.
The 15-year-old is no longer living.
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Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?
It is not resonable cuation or self-important delight when it comes to martial law.
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Bettelheim believed grandiosely in being a guide, but he had fundamentally humble guidance to that in the end, as in the beginning (one of his favorite phrases), one can hope to grow only by endeavoring to be one's own guide.
Bettelheim has a plethora of favorite phrases.
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News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.
Greeting cards are not appreciated by News Quiz participants.
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And, as for the type of respect we Machiavelli's advice--that it is better to be feared than loved--will make much less sense in the 21 st century than it did in the 16 th . Goodwill toward America is becoming a national-security asset worth cultivating.
Machiavelli's advice that it's better to be feared than loved makes even more sense today than when he said it.
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Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology.
His last words were that he hated technology.
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It probably won't come naturally to an American male, but, in an attempt to enter into the spirit of French daily life, I will cultivate a Look of my own.
The American male is in his 20's.
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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.
When viewers hear of the treaty again, they will likely think of Harry and Louise, and not the map.
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And yet, while this oversaving is costly to any given generation, it enriches future generations.
It's possible that saving too much money could be bad for the economy.
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The coverage of her day in court was uniformly kind, rarely mentioning that she has lied before and changed her story now.
She had been entirely honest throughout the legal precedings.
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To Scalia, however, the idea that judicial power responds to the demands of the time merely proves that there have always been willful judges who bend the law to their wishes.
Scalia wielded judicial power.
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Time explains why the anti-sweatshop movement is growing on college The AFL-CIO has jump-started the protests by lavishing student activists with internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions.
Protests on campuses have been silent, despite the AFL-CIO's lavish student aid.
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Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article.
We cannot talk reasonably about anything in this article.
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Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.
There's a men's department inside the store.
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Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.
The chief medical officer did not change his position in light of the public outrage.
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Charles Schulz need not fear death.
Schulz believed in God.
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It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul.
The haul was long and related to gender.
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We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.
We will not be authorizing bills neither will we be appropriating bills any time soon.
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Even this distinction, though, is changing with the development of off-line software that automatically goes to the Web to retrieve material, and stores it on your own computer.
You have to pay for the off-line software.
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If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.
Babies do not develop sleep problems.
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The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate.
Starr convicted Clinton about filegate and travelgate.
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Blacks aren't celebrating because they fear an economic downturn and because equality is still elusive.
Other races and ethnicities are currently celebrating.
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The Pentagon told CNN &amp
CNN told the audience afterwards.
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5) The superstars are eating up all the available money and crowding out new talent.
The superstars had a recent contract negotiation.
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Nigeria then sent troops to challenge the coup, evidently to restore the president and repair Nigeria's corrupt image abroad.
Nigeria had reasons to oppose the coup and made efforts to do so.
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Even so, it is better to avoid the crash-causing exuberance than it is to try to keep a crash from triggering a depression.
To this day, academics continue to study what leads to crashes.
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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.
Ben Brantley thought the actors did not convey emotion.
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A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
There is a large amount of financial aid administration incompetence in the 1993 General Accounting Office.
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As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors.
The local community has a budget for the hardware bill.
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Songs like their biggest hit, , are sense-less but skillful pastiches of classic Beatles moments.
The band was heavily influenced by the Beatles.
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I stop by Kanter's Printers on 23 rd Street, an address generated by the Crane Web site.
Kanter's Printers is on my way.
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What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.
Meier's work lacked for nothing, as its natural rhythm was readily apparent.
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This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.
The actions of Mc-Cain-Feingold are important and worth discussing.
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I am still tempted to do that, but since I encountered that quotation, I have resisted.
The quotation was offensive and hurtful.
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The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.
Touching on the American Wild West, Failure of the West focuses on past pioneers.
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The only figure to emerge untainted is Hillary Clinton, whose approval rating is 33 percentage points higher than it was before the scandal.
Hillary's husband saw a large drop in his approval ratings due to the scandal.
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In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand declares that [t]here is nothing unconventional about this story.
The story is a rather uninteresting examination of a middle class family.
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And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can.
Hospitals make an effort in order to extract as much money as they can from the insurers.
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As American multinationals ship their production overseas, the likelihood of getting business to support an import tariff (which would now tax their own imports) becomes equally small.
The multinationals shifted their manufacturing overseas to take advantage of low-cost labor and relaxed safety standards.
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And in a final act of disintermediation, Son of 695 retaliates against all these mayors and council members who thought they got the drop on It will roll back all taxes and fees increased since July 1999, when I-695 qualified for the ballot.
Taxes will be raised, even after I-695 places on the ballot.
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No doubt there would be other occasions that clearly met the standard where intervention was unrealistic.
This comment is in regard to a hostage situation.
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No, it'll be a grudge match between Reeves and Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, whom Reeves fired as the Broncos' offensive coordinator years ago for insubordination.
Reeves was Shanahan's boss.
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But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.
In this instance, Q and A consists of basic questions and canned responses.
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But what about the other editors of the Daily Cal who couldn't say they'd been martyred at a campus once renowned for its leftism?
Most editors are rightists.
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The High-Minded Dismissal.
The High Minded are a dismissal people.
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It's as though the book was not edited at all.
It seems as if the book is highly edited.
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Critics point out, however, that neither the Federal Election Commission nor the state of Arizona has certified any standards for Internet voting.
Arizona is the only state to possess online voting standards.
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The civil rights movement was great.
I enjoyed the civil rights movements occurrence.
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Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?
The internet has been silent about the merger.
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