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More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light.
The market is continuing to freefall in price.
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Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people.
McCaffrey head over heels with the opportunities that both laws bring to citizens.
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Consider Ehrlichman's reference to a certain left-wing Harvard professor, [first name unknown] Pomerantz, or whatever his name is, whose generosity towards the George McGovern campaign raises Nixon's suspicions.
The Harvard professor has become a household name recently.
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Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.
The author enjoys smoking inside, and finds pleasure in it.
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But, come to think of it, she does look a bit pale.
She often looks pale.
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One common mistake is to count federal grants-in-aid as state and local taxes, but that's double counting, since they're already paid for by federal taxes.
Federal taxes double state and local taxes.
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Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.
In the 50's comedy TV shows had the highest ratings.
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Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver.
Due to unmotivated parents, kids fall behind in public schools and the charter schools just promise but don't deliver.f
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Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ...
Roy completed the movie-related faxes despite the tense conditions.
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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's performance is an engineered struggle.
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Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters.
Lots of individuals would come to take an interest in the letters of Chekhov, marveling at how intricately his letters were formatted.
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McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.
McCartney used his voice for the Beatles in the 70s and 80s and thought about quitting a few times.
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Now he believes he can be president.
He was unsure for many days before this.
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What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.
Bradley found a policy expert to deal with Brazile's cheap shot.
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The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.
No wonder the turnover rates of late have been extremely high in Silicon Valley.
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Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.
Theologians believed in Rock Paper Scissors to solve moral theology questions.
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Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.
Artaud's intelligence matched his paranoia.
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In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products.
Products can be re-auctioned by winning bidders.
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A companion piece advocates destroying food bacteria with low-level radiation.
Some bacteria are resistant to low-level radiation
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I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude.
Aging has changed the author's mindset.
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They're regular old spending that Republicans happen not to like, such as support for the International Monetary Fund and highway demonstration projects in Democratic districts.
The International Monetary Fund has raised a lot of money for certain Democratic projects.
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Birch pointed out that conservatives defend serial and childless heterosexual marriages, but the whole topic was a loser for her.
Conservatives widely bash those who marry many times as well as those marriages that are childless.
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Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little.
Drugs are now banned from teen films.
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The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information.
Any specific information, is not to be announced is conversation.
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So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him.
The officials who were high-ranking had the means to influence trade policy..
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It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.
Beethoven is the only one that knows what musical instruments went with his music.
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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 Clinton wants to avoid giving help to foreign countries.
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I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true.
The author talks to someone about a hard-to-accept subject.
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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?
Huffington and Beatty are attacking the left wing progressives.
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I don't see any reason to postpone the vote.
A purpose cannot be thought of for why the vote needs to be delayed.
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The Heartbeats, a decent R&B cover band in cowboy hats.
Wearing cowboy hats is unusual for R&B singers, since it's a look that fits more folk music
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While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote.
Both sides had recently started to utilize the Iraq conflict to their own advantages.
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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.)
The donations were never disclosed to the FEC.
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In his frantic manipulating to get hold of Linda's tapes of Monica, he phoned me in New York and remembers it as
He was quite eager to get a hold of the tapes.
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I am at play right now.
I have played all day.
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The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze.
The pump is relatively expensive.
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2) And yet you secretly desire one so you can capture some magical moments from your childhood.
There is something you wish to have.
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But there's a larger explanation.
There is nothing else to add to it.
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Anglicans are particularly aggrieved by the no-Protestants policy.
The no-Protestants policy aggrieved Anglicans.
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Slate 's Web site might be at the moment, and how clogged your local-area network might be.
Different factors determine how clogged your local-area network is.
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That goddamned hamster dance.
The hamster dance is one of a kind
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When the American diplomat who supervises the international peace monitors in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre, the Yugoslav (i.e.
The Serb police did massacre.
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Paul's statement that this is simple and reasonable does not make it right.
Paul's statement completely justified this
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Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby.
Those from future generations, have scars from life threatening diseases.
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The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.
The internet will play a huge role in political advertising.
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On democracy, for example, American activists are raging over China's recent suppression of all democratic dissent.
A group of Americans are quite upset at the Chinese government for suppressing Democracy.
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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.
Generations have appeared to be uninterested in adopting new slang.
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And a number of large firms have downsized successfully, most obviously General Electric, which cut an astounding 170,000 jobs worldwide in 12 years while simultaneously tripling its sales.
General Electric hired a lot of new people recently in 12 years.
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TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy.
TV ads can not target narrow segments of the electorate.
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I had to format both drives.
The person had two drives.
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There would still be an Ahab syndrome.
There was sometimes seen a Baha syndrome.
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good after-school programs, lots of computers, smaller classes, and higher standards for teachers.
Every school that has an after school program has a lower standard for their teachers.
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I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also.
Huxley did not write the Brave New World.
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But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years.
In five years I haven't had sex.
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In March, he dismissed Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and replaced him with a 35-year-old political neophyte, Sergei Kiriyenko.
Sergei did a better job than Victor.
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No More Teachers, No More Books ...
There should not be any more teachers or reading materials.
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As this discussion shows, measuring Web traffic is generally less exact than measuring traditional magazine circulation.
Measuring Web movement isn't as precise as counting sales of magazines
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4. Causality.
Cause and effect.
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Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure.
Forks will fail to receive funding of any kind.
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As it stands now, police officers, especially in urban areas, present more illegally obtained evidence than legally obtained evidence.
Law enforcement is most likely to acquire information in an illegitimate fashion.
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The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.
According to the chemist, the gas would penetrate more than 10 microns in the wall.
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The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously.
Shootings in southern states are ignored by news outlets.
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Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?
A new Cold War has been caused by this anti-missile policy
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Guess what, so is the Chinese rate of osteoporosis.
There has never been a case of a Chinese person with osteoporosis.
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
Employees at companies such as Polaroid can't be bothered with looking for advancements to make their jobs more efficient.
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Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining.
Genetic redlining is a cause the Francis Collins is sternly against.
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May the people forever keep you in their memory, Day as beautiful as glory, Cold as the tomb!
People kept them in their memory forever.
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The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen.
Children these days would rather be sitting in front of an electronic device than anything else.
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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.
Adventurers like to do the same thing everyone else does.
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Entire conferences and whole scholarly volumes have been devoted to this catechism, with roughly the same results.
Scholarly volume devoted to the catechism are written in a foreign language.
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Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody.
Russian casualties were kept to minimum, thanks in part to the strategy that they used.
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And when it comes from the white right, it's narcissism in the service of hypocrisy.
The white right is very modest
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There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.
Work sometimes fates into hermeticism
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Luckily, he is highly placed, but I mean, how does one gracefully NOT contribute?
Can one not contribute in a graceful way?
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God how I love this country.
They expressed their love for this country each day they awoke from sleep.
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But from Aumann and Maschler's work, we know that if you've found one consistent solution, you've found them all.
Many solutions can have the same efficacy
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And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust.
Eighteenth-century European women later searched for a mental forest.
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Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all.
Cagney's film style is enduring.
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Not surprisingly, Scalia is no big fan of stare decisis : In his dissents, he often calls upon the court to scour away layers of encrusted precedent in order to get at the original meaning of the underlying text.
Scalia often finds that the intended meaning of text is heavily obscured.
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The Times speculated that NATO officials leaked the bad news to persuade Congress not to pull out the troops.
The NATO officials leaked good news.
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The magazine profiles former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, who now heads the University of Cape She has won admirers (and enemies) by insisting that the university not adjust its standards to favor black students.
Mamphela Ramphele gave an in person interview to the magazine for her profile.
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Any NEA chairperson who had the interests of the gay community at heart would have rushed to defund the exhibit.
The NEA is an organization that supports the gay community.
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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.
Clinton was kept on track by Morris's ideas.
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But Rodgers did tell Lewis that he despises Amelio because Amelio supported Clinton, so it is Rodgers' mistake, not our author's, that we are correcting.
Rogers Despised Amelio because he failed to support Clinton.
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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
It is distressing when an exceptional institution goes down hill.
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If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.
Circumstances are pleasant and wrong.
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For instance, in a hot-selling series of novels co-authored by the well-known preacher Tim LaHaye, he's Romanian.
Time LaHaye who is Romanian and a well-known has co-written a hot selling series of novels.
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Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.
Clinton was trying to hide a favor to a political.
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This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide?
Because we are so low-tech, it's normal for people to find math too hard.
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But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.
The imprisoned souls are all children.
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' That is said scornfully or dismissively, says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center.
Brinkley is being replaced by Ambrose for his poor work.
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Landsburg notes, What if he [the president] keeps us out of war through policies that make the world more dangerous for our children?
Landsburg is concerned that the president is postponing a problem today that will snowball in the future.
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According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.
Janet Reno thought the agents didn't have the time to treat the matter properly.
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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.
Foreign aid continues to rise at an exponential rate.
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DeParle also notes that her husband, Donald, recently found a job, as a hotel maintenance man.
DeParle and Donald were married
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It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it.
It was only right that the man believed you should create wealth.
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Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush.
Bush was the winner of round one.
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And yet, while this oversaving is costly to any given generation, it enriches future generations.
Future generations will like the over saving when they get older.
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The Amman fiasco could cost both Israel and Mossad.
Israel and Mossad have been affected by the Amman failure
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In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand declares that [t]here is nothing unconventional about this story.
Louis Menand felt the story was very unique.
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