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A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment.
Faith can include grace and/or judgment.
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If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things.
If you have concern over the tale, it's a good sign.
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Saturated fat is still evil.
Saturated fat is perfectly healthy and pure.
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Microsoft has used the image of its competitors' political influence to portray its own lobbying as self-defense.
Microsoft's lobbying is portrayed as self-defense.
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Falwell, I had just finished reading a novelistic treatment of these events, Assassins , which is subtitled Jerusalem, Antichrist . Assassins is the sixth book in the Left Behind series, left behind referring to those unfortunate nonevangelical Christians who are not taken up to heaven in the Rapture--the opening act in God's end days plan--and are forced to contend with the Antichrist's evil reign on Earth.
Left Behind refers to the Rapture, which is where non-Christians do not go to Heaven.
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Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy
Public humiliation and rejection are rated the same level of hatred for teens.
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That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not.
People of Chinese descent absolutely have that culture and those values.
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A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton.
Salinger went to California and visited the set of the show Dynasty.
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Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant!
The pope attends Lutheran and Jewish services these days.
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And now, judging by News Quiz responses, these wan titans are barely portrayed at all.
The insights given by News Quiz are useful
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The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...
The casting of these films is dubious.
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Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer needs all the potential customers they can get.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
There is a sorrowful look on someone.
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, the closure of a local factory), the benefits tend to be invisible because they're faraway or diffuse (e.g.
The benefits are not readily available.
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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 was displayed in the entryway to the exhibit.
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And as for Hillary, forget it.
You shouldn't try to remember anything for Hillary.
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Questioned about China at his press conference, President Clinton admitted for the first time that his constructive-engagement policy hasn't improved China's behavior, but he maintained that it will in the future.
Clinton states that his policy will eventually prevail in improving China's behavior.
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No one should be angrier about this than Stephen Labaton, Jeff Gerth, and Safire's other colleagues at the Times who have patiently pursued the Clinton scandals in a careful way.
Clinton pursued the Times and should be angry.
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No matter how fast we all run, someone must be behind.
As they ran they would always look back to see how many pursuers there were behind them, which gave them all the more reason to keep going.
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But some are responding to the fleeting hormonal surges of youthful idealism, or to the special status hierarchy of the academic subculture where they temporarily reside.
The special status hierarchy of the academic subculture is what the students, who permanently reside there, respond to.
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It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism.
Not doing something you believe in will wreck your career in journalism.
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Seconds after tipoff, Jordan launched a turnaround jumper, his new signature shot, hitting nothing but net.
Jordan's dunk was a signature shot because it was flashy.
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In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality.
Landsburg presents a mathematical explanation for the public acting irrationally.
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It would do that other thing--succeed.
There is another option here.
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In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.
He's planning to drive slower and take it easy on the gas pedal now that he understands his car better.
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And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige.
Only certain revelations of the Cold War's wrongdoings has damaged it's prestige.
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Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick.
Having a car accidents with serious consequences could have been a cause for Joe not to be elected in the Congress
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As we bow gratefully to this wonderful final year of the first century of film, let us hope it is not one of the final years of celluloid itself.
This year was a horrible ending to the first century of film.
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( Slate published a piece co-authored by Glass last year.
Slate's piece has a co-writer named Glass.
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The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning.
The situation can bring positive change
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Of course, this decision raises plenty of questions of its own.
This decision is not the solution we need.
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She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.
She will ensure that no MacDonalds will interact with Culturebox, as long as she can.
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Its well-tended (by the federal government) parks, monuments, mansions, embassies, and museums can compare with those of any city in the world.
It ranks among the best in the world.
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The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good.
The west prevailed on it's goodness alone.
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Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years.
Angela Lansbury doesn't want to make any more episodes.
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If anyone actually was inclined to light up a cigar after breakfast, he would have been breaking the NAM's no-smoking rule, according to an association representative (who, like another witness I talked to, saw no cigars).
It is not against the rules to unveil cigars so long as they are not lit.
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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.
The people in the audience applauded the opening.
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A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate.
Arendt was a fan of Greek theater.
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Wealth would indeed be moved around, some people enriched, and others would be financial losers.
There are more winners than losers from wealth moving about.
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Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy.
Dostoyevsky has written many books in the past several years.
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As long as there are still U.S. workers paying payroll taxes (and if there aren't, we'll have many far bigger problems), these can cover at least partial benefits.
The partial benefits would not have any troubles in covering it's recipients, as payroll taxes would go on to be collected, without any difficulties arising.
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Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks.
Internet telephony is a new application.
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The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality.
The brutality of the response of the Turkish army was equal to that of their foes.
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Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.
Degas loved French society and embraced it fully.
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That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.
Transportation policy is entirely based on what is needed that most.
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Having done so, they finally agree to marry but with She has privacy, freedom to pursue her own life and friends, control over money, etc.
She wants her and her partner to live as one and do everything together.
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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.
Kauai works for Witness Sunday
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The paper declared, A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
A smile is inexpensive.
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A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.
The play was resoundingly loved by all who saw it.
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The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).
U.S. involvement in the Gulf War was a critical determinant that led to Bush's failure of being reelected.
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This program should be expanded, perhaps with incentives for police to live in the neighborhoods they patrol full time.
The program expansion should incent police to live full-time in neighborhoods they patrol.
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should not guide our activities in cyberspace.
Nothing should guide actions on a website.
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It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.
The NBA is devoid of young stable men.
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For my part, I plan to endorse the Baptist boycott of Disney.
Disney is not popular with religious groups.
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But just between you and me, it's really bad.
No one else knows how bad it is.
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The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
Good-government liberals would find this show very unappealing.
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The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime.
The label advised no more than a single tablet.
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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.
Harry and Louise health plan had very high premiums
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Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives.
High-tech executives face a lot of financial issues.
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Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book.
Imagine going to the beach.
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To protect your privacy, ask your bank to restrict access to your records and beg your member of Congress for legislative protections.
Banks can restrict the access to your records only in particular cases: your privacy could be violated anyway
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Preferential treatment for big donors is nothing new.
It's a new thing where big donors get preferential treatment.
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3) Fragmentary intelligence suggests that China wanted to channel money to Clinton's campaign.
Intelligence suggested China had the desire to channel money to the Clinton campaign.
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That is George Richey, widower of country singer Tammy Wynette.
Tammy Wynette left a widower, George.
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As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility.
Nathan Winslow wrote a review in full support of self-organized criticality.
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If the wound to Eappen's skull was new, asked Scheck, why had scar tissue formed around it?
Eappen's skull wound wasn't fresh, it was beginning to scar.
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And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all.
These things will fall into disuse, as everyone grows content with ignoring them and casting them aside.
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Entrepreneurs now use cheap new technology, such as remote-operated vehicles, to salvage artifacts from ancient wrecks.
Robots have yet to be used in ancient artifact expeditions.
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And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon).
The public generally received Clinton well over the course of his presidency.
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Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year?
Buffett proposed a 10 percent capital gains tax on investments held for less than a year.
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Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com.
Voters can go to vote.com.
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The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it.
The advertising side continues to refuse to donate ad space to the editorial side.
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If you want to look like a propaganda organ of Microsoft, about the best thing you could do would be to publish an article about a very hotly contested industry issue, take Microsoft's side, and support your point with misinformation and untruths.
Taking the side of a business in a prominent and contested issue often sounds like propaganda
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Lifeboats have been constructed for the top dozen employees.
The top 12 employees have their own lifeboats.
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One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments.
A free-lancer traveled with her husband.
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They can score, but they can't play D.
They are not good at defense.
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They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government.
LTCM sometimes were protected by their losses by the government.
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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
There is a dirty motive for the author.
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Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.
Ron Brown has passed away.
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When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large.
A representative sample to a pollster means an accurate reflection of the population.
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Yeats wants to leave his traces/ On Munster grass and Connemara skies.
Yeats wants to leave very little trace at all.
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If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio.
Merging only a few faces together on a computer gets a result that doesn't look so good.
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Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces.
Morris won't stop his search for a poison that penetrates surfaces.
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The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.
Humans have too much pride in themselves in this last bastion.
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(Note to Hollywood Try to hire someone who looks like Lillian Hellman to be your husband's personal assistant.)
Hollywood doesn't need to hire anyone for an assistant.
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Officials at the Justice Department and FISA Court deny that the latter is a rubber stamp, attributing Justice's winning percentage to rigorous internal review that weeds out bad applications before they're filed.
The Justice Department and FISA Court accept that they're rubber stamping their way through reviews.
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Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.
David Letterman has never allowed a guest he does not like to come onto his show.
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As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.
Gore admires Bradley for jumping in and picking up the extra support.
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It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen.
Those see it as a criticism or disapproval of Majority Leader Trent Lott but a victory for Democrats.
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My own admittedly romantic preference is to see his career as a quest for inspiration, and to say Pollock sought it long, found it briefly, and couldn't live without it.
Pollack wanted to find inspiration in his job.
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Utah looks like my dream come true.
My dream looks like Utah.
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It's possible that Besieged is meant to be vaguely The African is seduced by the crumbling decadence of Europe while the European falls for the childlike simplicity of Africa.
The two characters in Besieged, go on to have experiences that far exceed what they felt was possible in each of the different settings.
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By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education.
LAT is affecting American culture
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Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft.
Eighty percent of students never get hold of psychopharmaceuticals.
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It's more scary than funny, especially to the brain tumor guy when he finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch.
Raquel Welch went to school an UC Berkly.
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Progressives are more definitive than most other observations about patently obvious things in society.
Progressives observe patently obvious things.
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That was a satisfying moment.
That moment was enjoyable.
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And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.
Influence peddlers create havoc and sow chaos on Capital Hill.
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Another AP item in the Post reports that at her weekly news conference, Janet Reno admitted she has become so confused over the computer system in her office that she has forsaken it for paper and pencil.
Janet Reno tried hard to understand how to use the computer in her office.
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It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour.
The president initially ignored scientist Linda Ashland.
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