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And by planting what looks like a bold idea--that the purpose of campaigning is to engender optimism and renew our faith--he erases his obligation to tell us how he would govern.
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He doesn't mention what he would do if elected, making us pick blindly like a pig in a poke.
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To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.
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The idea is to counteract mushy curricula and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.
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An article accuses the press of overlooking John McCain's domestic-policy gaffes.
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John McCain had domestic-policy gaffes.
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Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.
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Americans are entitled to their skepticism.
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Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.
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Critics disliked most of the film
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The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.
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The controversy involves Monica Lewinsky
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Two humorless and often petty egomaniacs intransigently reiterated their familiar positions (Rich).
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A couple egomaniacs wont let you forget who they are.
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The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores.
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The book's debut at Jeff Bezos' company was delayed past Christmas.
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The editor published the study to help Clinton.
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The study was published to help Clinton.
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So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys.
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They are pretending to fight villains
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An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos.
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Negroes are rejuvenating the hood
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He looked at her and said, Monday morning.
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He talk to her about the start of the week.
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Instead, liberals should focus on a more pressing building stronger unions.
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The left ought to help construct more powerful alliances.
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A year ago, the wife of the Oxford don noticed that the pattern on Kleenex quilted tissue uncannily resembled the Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern, which Sir Roger had invented--and copyrighted--in 1974.
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The Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern was invented--and copyrighted--in 1974.
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Gays should come up with a word for their own committed relationships.
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They want homosexuals to create a new term to describe their partnerships
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So I knew Browder as a somewhat gloomy but kind old gent who took a daily constitutional up the block to Nassau street, where he would buy me and Julie a package of Hostess cupcakes--the orange-flavored ones, with icing squiggles on top.
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Browder was a personable man.
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While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.
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He took photos of himself in the room to use for the holidays.
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
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Upgrading to Amazon Prime offers two day shipping.
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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 ...
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Roy was very busy this early this week.
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In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.
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Japan imported raccoons as pets from the United States.
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She has yet to come to terms, artistically ...
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She is still finding her artistic place.
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The anti-poker campaign has galvanized the state like no issue ever has.
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The anti-poker campaign has motivated the state.
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Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
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Urban areas in the US are like vampires
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Felicia's Journey takes place behind the eyes of its central a young Irish girl, Felicia, who crosses the sea to England in a hopeful quest to find the father of her unborn child; and the fat, middle-aged catering manager, Hiditch, who takes a paternal interest in the lass when it becomes clear that her young man has caddishly given her the slip.
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Hiditch is like a father figure to her
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You want a recipe for healing?
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He knows a recipe for healing.
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Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.
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Kirstie Alley starred in Less Frenetic than Lucy, More Mature than Mary.
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Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!
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They would like to get an invitation to the bris.
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Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.
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The author is picturing a couple of baritones interacting with an Iraqi guy
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In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.
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One candidate was being condecending to another.
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It also creates a presumption that it will be treated.
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It is assumed it will be healed.
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And you have made other people happy, as well.
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Your existence brings joy to others.
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Time 's cover story argues that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact could not have been worse for Microsoft and could be used against Microsoft by competitors in private antitrust actions.
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Microsoft did not do all that well with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
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Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.
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A candidate ditched the Republican party to run solo in an election.
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And eventually people are no longer eager to live on garbage dumps.
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Living on garbage dumps is not enjoyable
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' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
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I am able to recall it with great accuracy
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The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.
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Missouri has a state sport that involves animals.
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Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
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Bill Gates's company earned the right to show pride
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Every week, Rodriguez must halt surgery because he can't get one or another material through the embargo.
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The operations have to stop
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Thank you for William Saletan's brilliant analysis () of the war.
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Saletan is respected for his expertise on war.
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And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
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Unskilled immigrants have flooded the labor force
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Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should.
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This h2o is fantastic
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The bears are holding up what might be a dinner plate that says, United We Stand Divided We Ball, indicating a surprisingly open marriage or that the ink smeared.
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The dinner plate has become difficult to read over time.
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I have a friend who was excluded from a jury because he answered yes to the question, Do you think a man who's been arrested is more likely to be guilty than a man who hasn't been arrested?
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You can be left out of a case as a juror depending on your answers to certain questions
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Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani.
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Hilary did her best to help out Giuliani.
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What is reputed to be Gen.
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The author wonders what is reputed.
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Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
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Conglomerates don't want to invest in midlist books and instead want to take their chances with potential blockbusters.
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USA Today 's modular layout and bold type anticipated the typical multidimensional Web page, almost inviting the finger to point and click, to follow Christine Royal through the process of her cosmetic surgery, to jump to the daily profiles of Olympic athletes, to explore the depths of the Bosnia power struggle.
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USA Today's webpage was before it's time.
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to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision,
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I must ask again about the topic again.
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A considerably audible tsk, tsk I send you, Slate.
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I must judge you Slate.
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They seemed to enjoy it, and it was extremely helpful to us.
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We were helped by them
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This time, they were looking for a candidate who knew how to speak the language of love.
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They wanted a candidate who understood love.
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The eternal shortage of judges means that some cases are adjudicated peremptorily.
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There is a need for more litigation experts for court cases.
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The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides.
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Republicans on the Hill are being attacked from all sides.
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Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain.
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Afterward Lehman mentioned that he was in a great deal of pain.
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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
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I believe I have a higher calling here.
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Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a shred of evidence against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration a whitewash.
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Colleagues see no evidence against Lee
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If we don't spend seven evenings a week together, if we don't talk on the phone each day during work, if I want to spend any time alone, my girlfriend pouts and gets angry, or cries.
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My girlfriend is very clingly.
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We should lead by example and suasion.
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They believe in using rhetoric to influence others
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Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky?
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You should use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky.
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We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum).
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It is the responsibility of the jury to weigh all the evidence.
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What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.
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Ledbetter doesn't understand that PBS's time has come and gone.
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American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.
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Christopher Benfey finds Hughes' poems introspective.
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For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.
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I am pleased to be Hebrew.
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The new law also makes it easier for broadcasters to renew their licenses, and requires TV manufacturers to install parent-friendly V-chips.
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Television makers now have to include the parental controls.
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His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.
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his goal is to win Congress back with just 12 new seats.
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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
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Adults have many things permitted to them.
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However, many mental-health professionals argue that a dimensional model makes more sense and would more closely mirror the real world.
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According to many mental-health professionals, a dimensional model would be better to use.
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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.
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A newspaper reviews a playwright about a man's life.
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Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.
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Scott Shuger's was in the paper today.
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In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all.
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Truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all.
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Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
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These establishments are willing to shape countries in the East and the South.
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www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ...
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You are able to click on No-Frames on www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/.
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Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.
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Chernomyrdin is not qualified for his mission and his motivation to become qualified is questionable.
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I spent a lot of time talking to Iowa farmers since January.
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He talked to Iowa farmers for a great deal of time.
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(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)
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Making blanket statements is a bad idea.
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Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit.
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Seasons cheer is more prevelant around the holidays.
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I believe that your hearts will go on.
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I trust that you are going to eventually move forward.
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The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples.
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Weapons are constructed of both nuclear and biological material.
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The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote.
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A strictly party-line vote is risky
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Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation.
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America realized it was important to have a mailing system at it's immaturity.
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Some people insist they don't know what they think until they hear what they say.
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They understand what to think after they hear what they say.
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Biblical overtones--the tale of Jacob and Laban--bubble up from Malamud's simplicity.
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The story is written with Biblical overtones.
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In particular, he has spoken of Salon 's dedication to a mission of exposing important facts.
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The publication's objective is to bring crucial information to light
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Insurers would then have to cater to their needs.
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Insurers have to take care of others.
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If you can use viral marketing and Abercrombie & Fitch in the same sentence, you too can be a Gen Y pundit.
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If you know how to use certain phrases in the same sentence, you too have the possibility of being a Gen Y pundit.
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In retrospect, though, two things seem clear.
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Two things seemed clear in retrospect.
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I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke.
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Not everyone smokes.
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Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.
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WebRecord is at least partially superior to PrintSmart
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One possibility is that these ads will develop into a new form of micro-pandering, but the process will be interesting no matter where it leads.
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These ads could turn into a new type of micro-pandering.
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At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk.
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She took a left to talk to a sales clerk.
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And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.
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Hiring people to influence other seems strange.
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As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.
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Sir Peter Hall wrote of Tony Blair's hypocrisy of funding the arts.
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A more honest summary might be We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops.
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We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops could be a more honest summary.
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Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
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A lot of the published writting was ripped off by prior publishers.
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Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.
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The two periodicals took on aggressively defensive posturing.
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He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate.
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There is a good chance they go after his seat.
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But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close.
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He is incorrect in his statements about lawyers in America.
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When I think of someone like Tolly Greenberg, I think of my grandpa Ben, he writes.
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My grandpa and Tolly are alike.
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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.
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He used a few colors to create his art.
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He didn't systematically vet things with her or even regularly delegate to her.
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He really didn't pay her much mind at all.
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