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Slate is scheduled to take up residence Monday, Oct. 27, as an anchor tenant on AOL's news-channel newsstand.
Slate and AOL are expected to be associated in the future.
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Buy utilities, bottom feed on mutual funds that invested in the Southeast Asian markets and got slammed, try real estate investment funds, and seek stability in U.S. bonds.
Stability is sought in U.S. bonds.
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If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government.
Unless Congress approved his desire legislation, the president felt he had no choice but to shut down the government.
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know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,
A departing self can bring up strong feelings.
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Indeed, Tripp pulls down more than all but a handful of the U.S. military's most senior officers.
The vast majority of the senior military officers in the U.S. Military are not influenced by Tripp.
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Degas, according to Daniel Halevy, carried his camera as proudly as a child carrying a rifle.
Degas carried his camera everywhere.
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Unless you can go back in time, cutting the tax rate on existing capital gains cannot possibly increase investment in productive resources.
Currently, not even tax cuts can raise investment in productive resources.
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You know, everything has to be robust a robust foreign policy, a robust national defense, a robust air attack on Serbia, a robust police crackdown, a robust anti-drug policy, a robust investigation of abuses.
It is under Trump's administration that everything has to be robust.
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And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.
Management is exposed to liability when employees access sexually explicit material in the workplace.
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Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries.
It remains unclear if the U.S. will ratify the treaty in time.
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He can tell her of something bad that has happened without fearing that she will think he is complaining.
He worries that she will think he is a constant complainer.
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As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.
Intel began its ad campaign to highlight their cutting-edge processors to potential consumers.
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The technophobic This is what we get for relying on gadgets.
The author believes that we should always rely on gadgets for everything.
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The superficial The even split of many of his assets vindicates her argument and bodes well for corporate wives.
There was no split of assets and the corporate wives are very angry about this occurence.
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The goal shouldn't be to make the desert bloom.
The desert can bloom
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Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest.
Ginsburg wouldn't delve into many of the details surrounding his client's actions.
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DeParle also notes that her husband, Donald, recently found a job, as a hotel maintenance man.
Donald is not a hotel maintenance man.
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McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.
Two neighbors were taken hostage by McLaren's followers.
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Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut.
The music is enjoyed by all.
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3. But the victory feels pretty hollow.
The victory did not carry any weight behind it.
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It has been tempting to see in Soutine's flayed forms a premonition of things to come.
Soutine's work or projects have depictions that are flayed.
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Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance.
Honore de Balzac has only written one essay on fashion.
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Nonetheless, Ehrlich's book was treated to a 21 st anniversary reprinting in 1997.
Ehrlich's book never received a reprint for its 21st anniversary.
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Most agree that he's a Clinton-style weather vane, adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.
Nobody can agree on anything about him.
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A Saving Private Ryan backlash begins.
There is some negative reaction towards Saving Private Ryan.
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You now could argue both events were watershed moments for female athletes because Americans simply love a spectacle.
Neither event made much of an impact for female atheletes and their popularity.
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A two-hour look at the evolution of underwear, the special is as silly as it sounds.
The author treats the concept of underwear with formality and respect.
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Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?
I enjoy all kinds of wine.
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In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater.
Bob Dole praised Clinton's decision to refuse to rule out pardons for former associates.
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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 worked with an accent coach in preparation for the role.
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Once considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether.
The departments specialized in healthcare.
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Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes.
It was easy for everyone to connect the outcomes to each other.
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In part, this is because Las Vegas has itself become one of the world's most powerful brand names.
Las Vegas is very unpopular.
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Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.
It makes you ask why no one came up with this before now.
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As Buchanan put it, the boys in the War Room had won a little victory today over this little girl who is going to be denied justice.
The little girl was very sad over the injustice.
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He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened.
He never listened to anyone.
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(The judge will not make that decision until Nov. 10 at the earliest.)
The judge will not make the decision until November 3rd at the earliest.
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(The American convention is not quite what it American journalists are permitted to act on their prejudices--the news columns and air time devoted to Flytrap wouldn't make sense unless reporters and editors believed the accusations.
American journalists' writing can be influenced by their personal beliefs.
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It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.
It is lovely, mature, and definitely appropriate.
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Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?
Permission given was to widen the wire.
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Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.
Heston's instincts on gun rights has occasionally been moderate.
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It is the cuisine equivalent of the landlord banging at your door.
The food became less popular.
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The reason to see Man on the Moon is Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey does a great job acting in the Man on the Moon.
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The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.
The Clinton health-care plan is irrelevant to my point.
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The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.
Bradley is known for an excessive amount of sport metaphors.
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But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway?
Solitare is delightfully easy, according to them.
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Or Morris could have contacted Dorothy Healey, who was the chair of the Southern California Communist Party during the '40s.
Morris might have gotten in touch with a woman was part of the Southern California Communist Party during the 1940s.
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Bloomie's says I've got $40 due,
I'm due $20, according to Bloomie's.
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For two earners each making $23,350, Alterman is serendipitously close to the mark when he asserts a marriage penalty of $1,001 a year.
There is a marriage penalty of $1001 per year for earners over $46,000.
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A quick recap.
a rerun of my favorite show.
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The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive.
The Diary is the most frequently published.
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But this is not the way to debate free-market pricing of technology.
Theories of supply and demand aren't relevant to technology industry pricing.
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The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.
A majority of American disagree that Republicans are as hard core as ever.
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It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.
A good handwriting is very useful today.
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A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision.
A majority of near-death experiences have spiritual visions associated with them.
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Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis.
If there were no hedge funds, the financial crisis would have been completely avoided.
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Pollard may have spied for a friendly country, but he did a traitor's work.
Pollard spied for his country's biggest enemy.
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Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work.
Chatterbox does not think there is need for concern.
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Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine.
Norquist has begun making it clear to many that Rupert Murdoch has to stop funding the Standard.
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Ad revenue increased but not enough to cover enormous new Recruiting new subscribers by direct mail, printing more magazines, and mailing more magazines are tremendously expensive operations.
Print media does not have to change its business model.
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Krugman would also have found out that the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is not representative of the way things Bonds are important, and what businessmen are doing is important.
The Stock Exchange overwhelmingly favored big businesses.
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Go-Gurt rang up $37 million in sales during its first year of limited distribution.
Go-Gurt lost so much money in sales they went out of business in their first year.
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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.
If the computer tests only take thirty minutes there's no chance that they will bother patients.
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Many responses were built on the assumption that Southern Baptists are bad in bed.
Several people assume Southern Baptists are not good in bed.
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Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)
Refer to the website in order to view these improper answers.
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The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy.
Most unions are campaigning for the Democratic candidate.
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But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against?
There were multiple people interested in the position.
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(A Versace show opened with razor-sharp bias-cut asymmetrical navy dresses, stern except for a frill at the hem and a swatch of black lace that masked eyes.
As the show progressed somewhat more subdued dresses were featured.
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The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference.
The policies in Israel are inconsistent.
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If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands.
They just had to deal with a previous scandal.
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She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me.
There is still work being done on it.
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Some analysts think Senate Republicans alienated conservative voters by giving up on tax cuts and caving in to Clinton in the budget negotiations.
Democrats caved to Clinton's budget negotiations which alienated their conservative voters.
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And no one will be nicer.
You cannot find a nicer person.
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As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job.
Unemployed, the parolee is searching for work.
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Finally, Pollitt and Sullivan are disappointed that Unauthorized
Both Sullivan and Pollitt are disappointed.
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She says, Have a nice day.
She said "Goodbye, take care!"
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Woodward's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings, and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 (click here and here).
Woodward's book is an important part of history to many people.
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Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.
My sixth-grade textbook gave me so much dread because I don't understand it.
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The RPH has hidden literary talents.
The RPH has literary skills.
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Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses).
Psychiatrists have few theories as to why crazy people like taking their clothes off in public places.
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This brief period may have been the most fertile of his career.
His career continued in a linear line.
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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
The author thinks that the Vanity Photo shoot was a mistake for Lewinksy.
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In reality, it takes more work and more character for poor student X to finish in the top ten percent of his or her public school class and obtain a mediocre SAT score than it does for rich kid Y to finish in the bottom half of his private school class and score slightly higher on the SAT.
All students perform well on the SAT.
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But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.
The press copies the rhetoric used by business leaders.
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Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now.
Everybody knew there was life on Mars.
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The question is, said Alice, whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Alice was very confused about some definitions.
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, I'm with you (thought I must admit Merchant of Venice ain't my all-time favorite.
I don't love the Merchant of Venice.
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A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.
Newsweek has shown interest in the country of India.
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Conservatives, after all, have spent the last year crediting Clinton's polls to He has lucked into the best economy in history.
conservatives have spent a lot of time within the last year claiming Clinton lucked into an amazing economy.
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He did not, however, suggest that everybody follow his example.
He thinks that some would do better by following the example set by his friend Bob.
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Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.
Culturebox can't tell you that Fish is correct.
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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.
Hardware is included in the e-rate discount.
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Which brings us to possibility No.
There are possibilites.
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Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too.
Dramas try to be too sensetive.
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An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives.
It has been suggested that the Atlanta shooter acted because they did not have the same male bonding that his father's generation had.
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(Just ask New Kids on the Block.
New Kids on the Block could be asked questions.
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The idea, Leger claimed, was to prove that machines and fragments of them, that ordinary manufactured objects, have plastic possibilities.
most plastic possibilities have BPA.
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Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP.
There is an original copy of TP.
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Maybe even Al Gore will soon exalt with a broad smile the vibrant U.S. ecology.
Some are proclaiming U.S. ecology is vibrant.
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Clinton, though, has also faced a continuing barrage of unserious allegations--implausible and untrue.
Clinton has never done anything wrong.
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