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George W. Bush takes both covers.
Bill Clinton takes both covers.
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This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.
This may be the best foundation for a business empire they have ever heard of.
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But it was the grass-roots opposition to KYC, sparked in part by the Libertarian Party, whose protest Web site steered 171,268 e-mail complaints from netizens to the FDIC, that elevated the subject to the national agenda.
The Libertarian Party helped spark the opposition to KYC.
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Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it.
The NYC payment scheme was hotly contested at the time of its creation.
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What makes Linux enthralling from a tech-head's point of view is that it is based on Unix standards that have been around for decades.
Most tech-heads use Linux.
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Columba Bush, wife of the Florida governor, declared only $500 worth of goods upon her return from a Paris vacation, but agents found $19,000 in receipts in her passport and fined her $4,100 on the spot.
Columbia Bush has spent time in Europe.
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The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze.
The pump also has other great features.
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Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?
People attempt to weaken his major achievement.
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Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place?
Employers never provide health insurance.
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What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
There is nothing more dreary than the exhibition.
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Doctors have given a generation of such children normal sex organs (i.e.
Doctors have helped many children to develop normal sex organs.
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For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention.
Clinton has been deceitful.
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Well, not behind it per se.
It was behind it.
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I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era.
The author is fond of this introduction to the Romantic era.
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They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The
Jason Alexander wasn't the first choice to star in this adaptation.
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We were not servile to the Soviet Union, said Poland's last Communist Party prime minister, we were helpless before that huge force.
Russia took advantage of Poland.
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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 still works for NBC.
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If it really wants to balance the budget it should just do so, rather than passing feel-good laws that say the budget should be balanced.
It would be most direct to just balance the budget.
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A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.
Saddam's Commandos is comprised of more than 10,000 people.
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Not so the New York Times , which editorially called for legislation to overturn the ruling.
The legislation had not overturned the ruling yet.
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In particular, an increase in the savings rate will translate into higher investment after all, because the Fed will make sure that it does.
The Feds monitor the rates daily.
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I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded.
Bush never involved his religious beliefs in his presidency.
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The democrat at the helm of a museum, a symphony orchestra, or a publishing house tries to expand his audience while challenging it.
The person in charge of a symphony orchestra wants his audience to grow.
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His signature pictures--of adolescent girls exhibiting their genitalia--contain most of this show's electricity (John Updike, the New York Review of Books ). Several critics observe that Schiele can only do nudes.
Schiele never painted exposed breatsand genitalia.
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The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising.
The Bush people feel good about their effort.
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He's a freakish Peter Pan--the juvenile delinquent who wouldn't grow up.
The juvenile delinquent was known for being a responsible adult.
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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.
He is the only newspaper man who believes in newspapers.
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At least, it seems clear that the earnings of the total labor force have risen pretty much in line with productivity (output per hour of work) when measured correctly.
The correct measurement methods are not immediately clear.
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Not only do people appreciate my respect for their preferences, but I also don't have to choose to whom to cater in mixed situations.
People seek out those who respect their preferences.
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Whatever the reasons for this deplorable twist in public morality, America's loss of its moral compass is a tragedy even more consequential than Bill Clinton's adultery.
The decline in public morality is largely due to the loss of traditional family values.
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Unless one believes that the lives of Europeans are intrinsically more valuable than those of Africans, the humanitarian justification for military intervention is unsustainable, he wrote.
The European military intervention was welcomed by leaders in Africa.
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Bond rejected this advice.
At every opportunity, Bond welcomed the guidance given to him.
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The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about.
He claimed that he wasn't lying and insisted that he was telling the truth.
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In a poll of 773 chief executives in 23 countries, consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide found that most think productivity peaks around age 43.
Productivity is not important to chief executives.
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A core group of kids do have a distinct attention abnormality, but Ritalin worked so well--it can reduce distractibility even in perfectly normal children--that now almost any difficult child is considered for the diagnosis and drug.
Ritalin has been proven to have almost no effect on attention abnormalities.
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Either someone is privileged, or he is not.
Privilege is a binary measure.
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John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France.
France had the largest postal service in 1828.
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It is certainly not because he failed to get most of his policy proposals adopted.
He works for the government.
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In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject.
George Bush made the right decision to listen to conservative Republicans.
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Other IOC members have resigned or are still being investigated.
None of the IOC members are under investigation.
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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.
The order of paragraphs is important.
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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.
Under no circumstances can a crash trigger depression.
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La Repubblica of Rome reported Wednesday that the singer Michael Jackson has been fined 4 million lire (around $2,200) for plagiarism.
La Repubblica of Rome only reports news on weekends.
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He is not an economics writer
That said, the subject of economics has always fascinated him.
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Finally, we can try to remove temptation, by avoiding policy initiatives that make it easy for politicians to play favorites.
Politicians will stop playing favorites on their own.
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Mostly I just skim the retractions), and himself (I am so sorry ...
There are retractions.
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But, except on election night, these were a relatively small part of their Web sites, let alone their overall news.
The website did not post any news on election night.
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Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.
Critics universally panned Prasad's film.
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But you could very well make the opposite argument.
It would be impossible to argue against that fact.
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It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg.
Whether or not he has sought Catherine Oxenberg's secrets has not been reported.
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First, it loses sales of Windows 95.
Copies of Windows 95 were sold.
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The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.
The author believes that evidence is being used incorrectly, leading to poor political strategy.
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Lana's mother, Linda Gutierres (not her name in the film), told them where they could find Brandon.
No one - neither Lana nor Linda - knew where Brandon was.
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I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap.
This would solve all of our problems.
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(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?)
Someone has everything they need.
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Many Protestants have no doubt that Jesus is really present in the Communion distributed at Catholic Masses.
Communion is a service in which you tell the minister your sins.
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A victory by Deep Blue would indicate its superior computational skills, but not a capacity for conscious thought.
Deep Blue is very good at performing computations.
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While these varieties are generally incompatible with one another, all this code-writing has resulted in a far-flung community that understands the Unix beast.
The varieties are compatible with one another.
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Outlook SWAT teams swooped down daily to reduce the size of our code.
Outlook is a major email client.
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My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes!
The software performs flawlessly.
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The word fundamentally in the previous paragraph carries a lot of weight, but it is important to think of what is fundamental.
When the previous paragraph used the word fundamentally, it could have easily been replaced with a different word.
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It might be desirable for me to say nothing.
The person quoted went on a monologue of epic proportions.
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In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.
One can never have too many businesses.
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Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch!
Mr. Goldberg wasn't allowed to watch.
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As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells.
Harkin immediately sought to introduce legislation curbing these practices.
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In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race.
The rate of interracial marriage has increased since 1963.
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I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week.
I throw rocks because of a deep seated unresolved anger towards my father who was a manager at a McDonald's.
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For affirmative action to do anything, it must involve advancing people who are slightly less qualified.
The author argues that in order for affirmative action to work, less qualified applicants need to be considered.
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People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others.
In order to survive famine, you need to not eat as much.
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After the Madness reads like going to court feels.
After the Madness was auto-biographical.
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(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.)
Most of the political donations given by students in 1992 went to support Bill Clinton's campaign.
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What's more pernicious about the coverage is that it confuses the qualities of a crusader with those of a president.
The coverage was made by a national newspaper.
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The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference.
The policy in Israel was predictable.
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4) Court records indicate that a jewelry-fraud ring used illegal third-party campaign donations to get President Clinton to pose in photos with its principals.
the jewelry-fraud ring turned out to be totally legitimate.
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If a Milosevic knew with reasonable certainty that ethnic cleansing would be prevented and punished, he might not attempt it.
Miloservic would act rationally when faced with possible punishment for his actions.
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They wouldn't do it with just any woman.
This is largely due to their picky tastes.
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One answer is that there is no honor among thieves--that the oligarchs are caught in a classic prisoners' dilemma, in which it is in the collective interest of the group that everyone pay some taxes, but in the individual interest of each oligarch to free-ride on the others.
There is a lot of honor among thieves.
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The play is Spencer's life reduced to Two Weddings and a Funeral , a quaint and titillating Bloomsbury parallelogram, says the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons.
The Wall Street Journal typically didn't print reviews of plays.
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At war's end, he arranged to contribute some of his panels as a sort of victory monument to the nation--the gift that eventually became the glorious circular water lily chapel at the Orangerie in Paris.
His gift ended up being shown in Paris.
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Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.
Chatterbox marched off into the nearby gentlemen's club to spend all his money on strippers and hot wings.
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These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.
Kenneth Starr was working on a regular case in June 21, 1996.
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A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination.
no one owns the Zapruder film.
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So are bitchin' and stoked . Every generation insists on having its own new words for the most aggressively up-to-date aspects of life.
There were more words created by this generation than the last.
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Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).
Pfitzner defiantly defended their work in the face of all the criticisms of it.
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
One criticism levied at the pact is how it will spread financial irresponsibility.
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President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.
No goals were scored in the World Cup Final.
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But then I don't know whether you mean that the attraction is physical or that the consummated relationship is physical and sexual.
The relationship was based on more than an intellectual connection.
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Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?
The guides do a great job covering the city.
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In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.
The woman steals bread in her purse.
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The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it.
New achievements provide motivation.
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After all, it's only a movie.
ultimately, it's just a movie.
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Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.
The food at McDonald's was good to Clinton.
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First, we don't know that Maxwell would have found another Without Joan, he might have struck out that night.
Joan hates Maxwell.
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The development of Microsoft FashionSense 2.0 is long overdue, and I for one would like to offer my services as a volunteer beta tester.
Microsoft Fashionsense 2.0 is missing a lot of modern designs pertaining to todays fashion.
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All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls.
No lobbyists have ever had a political job.
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France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.
President Chirac of France once compared currency speculators to the AIDS crisis.
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The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too.
There is interest among the news media in regards to legislation about medical malpractice litigation.
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But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.
his behavior was not charming whatsoever.
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I also watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his bike.
They watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his skateboard.
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It's true that different pieces benefit from different treatment
All of the pieces benefit equally from the same exact treatments.
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