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Most praise her for being able to hold her own, as opposed to noticing any genuine musical ability, and note that the album is far more pop-oriented than the drum 'n' bass and jungle she spins live.	Her style changes between live performances and recordings.	1neutral	lingnli
Henry V would have inspired no one on St. Crispin's day by	Henry V wouldn't have inspired anybody on St. Crispin's Day.	1neutral	lingnli
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.	The soldiers are highly skilled to take on war.	1neutral	lingnli
.. It must be said that this kind of approach is very tricky.	Masterful skill is required to go with this plan.	1neutral	lingnli
Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents.	Jeb Bush was married	1neutral	lingnli
Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.	The web as helped bring people rogether.	1neutral	lingnli
The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.	There isn't any economic gains in the country currently.	1neutral	lingnli
says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.	Norm Dicks of Washington is going back on what he previously said.	1neutral	lingnli
A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.	Saddam has more than one son	1neutral	lingnli
It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.	In the past, men promised marriage in the event of pregnancy to get sexual relations	1neutral	lingnli
Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.	The cops caught the thief	1neutral	lingnli
I'm not sure whether to invite him to mine.	I'd rather not invite him.	1neutral	lingnli
However, there are currently no federal laws prohibiting the second category.	The next subject is totally legal	1neutral	lingnli
She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.	I am pleasing to her	1neutral	lingnli
Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.	Quindlen was recognized for moving beyond veiled autobiography.	1neutral	lingnli
They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.	The program supports corporations and their interests	1neutral	lingnli
That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws.	Linda Douglass and Johann Gutenberg worked together.	1neutral	lingnli
If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles.	He is thought of as the deity of everything	1neutral	lingnli
They think Gates is stepping down-contrary to Ballmer's insistence that Gates is stepping up to his new job-in hopes of appeasing Justice Department warriors who want Gates' head.	Gates is moving into a different role	1neutral	lingnli
Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit.	After his pastoral visit he revealed Clinton family troubles.	1neutral	lingnli
But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.	There are a lot of question about how a women's body works	1neutral	lingnli
Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.	Marketing always tries to fit in with current trends	1neutral	lingnli
The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany.	Sitting politicians will be surprised by losing the election.	1neutral	lingnli
Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).	He works for a publication	1neutral	lingnli
They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.	Very hot water is their habitat.	1neutral	lingnli
The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region.	America sent a military force to the area.	1neutral	lingnli
In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks.	Working Girl and Pretty Woman are examples of modern romantic comedies.	1neutral	lingnli
Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.	Inappropriate behavior is present on the right as well.	1neutral	lingnli
Chernow attributes this attitude to Rockefeller's uncommon respect for the dollar.	According to Chernow, Rockefeller respected the dollar	1neutral	lingnli
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 long paintings were made into a round gallery.	1neutral	lingnli
Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court.	It is illegal to conspire to commit a crime.	1neutral	lingnli
Speaking of The third-place finisher, Forget Me Not , features an animated condom in a drawer.	Forget Me Not finished this year in third-place.	1neutral	lingnli
Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.	Critical Path receives complaints.	1neutral	lingnli
The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.	Despite being promoted by the nation, black capitalism has not been successful.	1neutral	lingnli
Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate.	Clinton participated in a debate.	1neutral	lingnli
He'd probably pick it up in his fillings.	The food will get stuck in his teeth.	1neutral	lingnli
So, the argument that we would simply have to find new buyers for government bonds is beside the point in the short run--and irrelevant in the long run, when Social Security will stop running surpluses.	The argument to find new buyers for government bonds is irrelevant and pointless in both the short and long run.	1neutral	lingnli
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen.	Janet Maslin writes for the New York Times.	1neutral	lingnli
But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of	His job involves reviewing verse	1neutral	lingnli
The relationship it describes may strike many as exploitative or ugly for other reasons, but it is not illegal.	The relationship doesn't break the law despite being unpleasant.	1neutral	lingnli
A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.	Kexus is a fancy car.	1neutral	lingnli
The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.	Huffington is a bit dull according to this article.	1neutral	lingnli
Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.	Recalls for unsafe food are standard practice.	1neutral	lingnli
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.	A silent majority supported the Vietnam war and Nixon.	1neutral	lingnli
The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.	The girl said men with guns were at the apartment.	1neutral	lingnli
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.	Benigni celebrates his own martyrdom	1neutral	lingnli
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries starred Barbara Hershey.	1neutral	lingnli
The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.	Some jobs should be outside of politics.	1neutral	lingnli
His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.	After the Ball was his initial prototype.	1neutral	lingnli
On Cultural The Wilson-Brustein Discussion , moderated by Anna Deavere Smith (Town Hall, New York).	Anna Deavere Smith facilitated the discussion.	1neutral	lingnli
But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism school.	Many of Doris Day's costumes were incongruous with the roles she was portraying	1neutral	lingnli
The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.	Heard through the grapevine, something seems fishy about Clinton and Kathleen Willey.	1neutral	lingnli
Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.	Saddam's invasion of Iran and occupation of Kuwait did not help his campaign.	1neutral	lingnli
Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.	A lot of speculation surrounds Albright's past.	1neutral	lingnli
These are the Most nominees are confirmed smoothly.	Most nominees are confirmed without a hitch	1neutral	lingnli
George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold.	George Custer had a left pinkie.	1neutral	lingnli
But, says Kull, One would not expect a real bounce until you see some signs of success.	Kull says that until you see signs of success one would not expect a real bounce.	1neutral	lingnli
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.	The accumulation of wealth happens in many different ways.	1neutral	lingnli
It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.	His ideas are misguided	1neutral	lingnli
And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige.	The agency broke their own rules during war.	1neutral	lingnli
But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.	The candidate's canned replies were a response chat questions.	1neutral	lingnli
The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.	The state doe snot interfere with free speech.	1neutral	lingnli
The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.	It is assumed that private investors are depressing its value.	1neutral	lingnli
Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!	Map maker was meant to make maps.	1neutral	lingnli
Now I find I hate returning e-mails.	E-mails are becoming an outdated form of communication.	1neutral	lingnli
I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.	The Committee of Advice wrote for Dole.	1neutral	lingnli
Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.	They want you to imagine what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.	1neutral	lingnli
Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.	The discount rate of 20% would apply to hardback book that are provided to the families of unborn children.	1neutral	lingnli
In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.	The cold war spy died recently	1neutral	lingnli
I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.	Monica Lewinsky had contacts with the president.	1neutral	lingnli
The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers.	The Liggett Group was a major player among tobacco companies.	1neutral	lingnli
Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told	Hatfield wrote what Eufaula said.	1neutral	lingnli
Annan is tough without being vicious.	Annan is a leader.	1neutral	lingnli
And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.	Children have busy lives.	1neutral	lingnli
In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.	A policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group will apparently not be possible.	1neutral	lingnli
He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate.	He has liberal viewpoints.	1neutral	lingnli
This makes it one of the few possible end runs around the meritocratic-credentialing complex, whereby standardized test scores determine future opportunities.	Standardized test scores are thought to determine future opportunities.	1neutral	lingnli
I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.	More commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out, was something they almost wished for.	1neutral	lingnli
60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.	Belgacom charges 60 per minute for the call.	1neutral	lingnli
The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies.	The higher-ups in the liquor business are unhappy with the ban.	1neutral	lingnli
Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.	Johnny has an admirer	1neutral	lingnli
Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.	Mr. Burton is being evasive.	1neutral	lingnli
The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.	Homosexual Catholics exist	1neutral	lingnli
Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged.	Men favor acceptance and liberation	1neutral	lingnli
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.	The media has focused on the issue.	1neutral	lingnli
Newsweek 's cover package compares Watergate and Flytrap.	Newsweek's cover package is focused on two scandals	1neutral	lingnli
The second variety of white race-consciousness--whiteness-as-burden--is no less tangled up in hypocrisy.	Reverse discrimination is real thing for certain groups.	1neutral	lingnli
You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.	You are a Prudie.	1neutral	lingnli
Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant!	The pope is familiar with religions other than Catholicism	1neutral	lingnli
And by following up his serious accusation (i.e.	The claims were not trivial.	1neutral	lingnli
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.	The show is aimed to the likes of those on the left.	1neutral	lingnli
I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.	He took a position in the last chapter.	1neutral	lingnli
(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)	It is also true that the legitimacy of the governor's popularity is aligned with the legitimacy of Clinton's popularity.	1neutral	lingnli
After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he endorsed strong gun control legislation, and as recently as last year he declared that AK-47s are inappropriate for private use.	He chose to endorse strong gun control legislation, against the wishes of gun control lobbies, after RFK's assassination in 1968.	1neutral	lingnli
In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights.	New York is full of immigrants.	1neutral	lingnli
Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.	It is cost-effective to get compulsives under control	1neutral	lingnli
In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them.	Men despised their president	1neutral	lingnli
Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.	In the 33 minute Circle in the Round, Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck.	1neutral	lingnli
Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.	Congress got to see the material before the public had a chance.	1neutral	lingnli
But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter.	The letter is verbose	1neutral	lingnli

Most praise her for being able to hold her own, as opposed to noticing any genuine musical ability, and note that the album is far more pop-oriented than the drum 'n' bass and jungle she spins live.

Her style changes between live performances and recordings.

1neutral

lingnli

Henry V would have inspired no one on St. Crispin's day by

Henry V wouldn't have inspired anybody on St. Crispin's Day.

1neutral

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Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.

The soldiers are highly skilled to take on war.

1neutral

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.. It must be said that this kind of approach is very tricky.

Masterful skill is required to go with this plan.

1neutral

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Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents.

Jeb Bush was married

1neutral

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Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.

The web as helped bring people rogether.

1neutral

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The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.

There isn't any economic gains in the country currently.

1neutral

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says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.

Norm Dicks of Washington is going back on what he previously said.

1neutral

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A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.

Saddam has more than one son

1neutral

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It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.

In the past, men promised marriage in the event of pregnancy to get sexual relations

1neutral

lingnli

Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.

The cops caught the thief

1neutral

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I'm not sure whether to invite him to mine.

I'd rather not invite him.

1neutral

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However, there are currently no federal laws prohibiting the second category.

The next subject is totally legal

1neutral

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She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.

I am pleasing to her

1neutral

lingnli

Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.

Quindlen was recognized for moving beyond veiled autobiography.

1neutral

lingnli

They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.

The program supports corporations and their interests

1neutral

lingnli

That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws.

Linda Douglass and Johann Gutenberg worked together.

1neutral

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If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles.

He is thought of as the deity of everything

1neutral

lingnli

They think Gates is stepping down-contrary to Ballmer's insistence that Gates is stepping up to his new job-in hopes of appeasing Justice Department warriors who want Gates' head.

Gates is moving into a different role

1neutral

lingnli

Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit.

After his pastoral visit he revealed Clinton family troubles.

1neutral

lingnli

But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.

There are a lot of question about how a women's body works

1neutral

lingnli

Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.

Marketing always tries to fit in with current trends

1neutral

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The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany.

Sitting politicians will be surprised by losing the election.

1neutral

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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).

He works for a publication

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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.

Very hot water is their habitat.

1neutral

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The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region.

America sent a military force to the area.

1neutral

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In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks.

Working Girl and Pretty Woman are examples of modern romantic comedies.

1neutral

lingnli

Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.

Inappropriate behavior is present on the right as well.

1neutral

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Chernow attributes this attitude to Rockefeller's uncommon respect for the dollar.

According to Chernow, Rockefeller respected the dollar

1neutral

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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 long paintings were made into a round gallery.

1neutral

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Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court.

It is illegal to conspire to commit a crime.

1neutral

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Speaking of The third-place finisher, Forget Me Not , features an animated condom in a drawer.

Forget Me Not finished this year in third-place.

1neutral

lingnli

Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.

Critical Path receives complaints.

1neutral

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The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.

Despite being promoted by the nation, black capitalism has not been successful.

1neutral

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Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate.

Clinton participated in a debate.

1neutral

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He'd probably pick it up in his fillings.

The food will get stuck in his teeth.

1neutral

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So, the argument that we would simply have to find new buyers for government bonds is beside the point in the short run--and irrelevant in the long run, when Social Security will stop running surpluses.

The argument to find new buyers for government bonds is irrelevant and pointless in both the short and long run.

1neutral

lingnli

The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen.

Janet Maslin writes for the New York Times.

1neutral

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But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of

His job involves reviewing verse

1neutral

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The relationship it describes may strike many as exploitative or ugly for other reasons, but it is not illegal.

The relationship doesn't break the law despite being unpleasant.

1neutral

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A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.

Kexus is a fancy car.

1neutral

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The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.

Huffington is a bit dull according to this article.

1neutral

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Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.

Recalls for unsafe food are standard practice.

1neutral

lingnli

By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.

A silent majority supported the Vietnam war and Nixon.

1neutral

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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.

The girl said men with guns were at the apartment.

1neutral

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Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.

Benigni celebrates his own martyrdom

1neutral

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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries starred Barbara Hershey.

1neutral

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The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.

Some jobs should be outside of politics.

1neutral

lingnli

His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.

After the Ball was his initial prototype.

1neutral

lingnli

On Cultural The Wilson-Brustein Discussion , moderated by Anna Deavere Smith (Town Hall, New York).

Anna Deavere Smith facilitated the discussion.

1neutral

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But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism school.

Many of Doris Day's costumes were incongruous with the roles she was portraying

1neutral

lingnli

The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.

Heard through the grapevine, something seems fishy about Clinton and Kathleen Willey.

1neutral

lingnli

Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.

Saddam's invasion of Iran and occupation of Kuwait did not help his campaign.

1neutral

lingnli

Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.

A lot of speculation surrounds Albright's past.

1neutral

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These are the Most nominees are confirmed smoothly.

Most nominees are confirmed without a hitch

1neutral

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George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold.

George Custer had a left pinkie.

1neutral

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But, says Kull, One would not expect a real bounce until you see some signs of success.

Kull says that until you see signs of success one would not expect a real bounce.

1neutral

lingnli

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.

The accumulation of wealth happens in many different ways.

1neutral

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It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.

His ideas are misguided

1neutral

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And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige.

The agency broke their own rules during war.

1neutral

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But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.

The candidate's canned replies were a response chat questions.

1neutral

lingnli

The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.

The state doe snot interfere with free speech.

1neutral

lingnli

The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.

It is assumed that private investors are depressing its value.

1neutral

lingnli

Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!

Map maker was meant to make maps.

1neutral

lingnli

Now I find I hate returning e-mails.

E-mails are becoming an outdated form of communication.

1neutral

lingnli

I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.

The Committee of Advice wrote for Dole.

1neutral

lingnli

Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.

They want you to imagine what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.

1neutral

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Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children.

The discount rate of 20% would apply to hardback book that are provided to the families of unborn children.

1neutral

lingnli

In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.

The cold war spy died recently

1neutral

lingnli

I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.

Monica Lewinsky had contacts with the president.

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The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers.

The Liggett Group was a major player among tobacco companies.

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Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told

Hatfield wrote what Eufaula said.

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Annan is tough without being vicious.

Annan is a leader.

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And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.

Children have busy lives.

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In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.

A policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group will apparently not be possible.

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He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate.

He has liberal viewpoints.

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This makes it one of the few possible end runs around the meritocratic-credentialing complex, whereby standardized test scores determine future opportunities.

Standardized test scores are thought to determine future opportunities.

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I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.

More commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out, was something they almost wished for.

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60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.

Belgacom charges 60 per minute for the call.

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The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies.

The higher-ups in the liquor business are unhappy with the ban.

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Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.

Johnny has an admirer

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Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.

Mr. Burton is being evasive.

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The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.

Homosexual Catholics exist

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Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged.

Men favor acceptance and liberation

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Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.

The media has focused on the issue.

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Newsweek 's cover package compares Watergate and Flytrap.

Newsweek's cover package is focused on two scandals

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The second variety of white race-consciousness--whiteness-as-burden--is no less tangled up in hypocrisy.

Reverse discrimination is real thing for certain groups.

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You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.

You are a Prudie.

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Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant!

The pope is familiar with religions other than Catholicism

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And by following up his serious accusation (i.e.

The claims were not trivial.

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The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.

The show is aimed to the likes of those on the left.

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I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.

He took a position in the last chapter.

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(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)

It is also true that the legitimacy of the governor's popularity is aligned with the legitimacy of Clinton's popularity.

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After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he endorsed strong gun control legislation, and as recently as last year he declared that AK-47s are inappropriate for private use.

He chose to endorse strong gun control legislation, against the wishes of gun control lobbies, after RFK's assassination in 1968.

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In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights.

New York is full of immigrants.

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Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.

It is cost-effective to get compulsives under control

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In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them.

Men despised their president

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Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.

In the 33 minute Circle in the Round, Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck.

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Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.

Congress got to see the material before the public had a chance.

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But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter.

The letter is verbose

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