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because_20020731-nyt.ann_55_0 | It would be the highest-level contact between the United States and North Korea since President Bush took office. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_57_0 | He said that when he arrives in Jakarta, he will have "some ideas and some initiatives" to present to President Megawati Sukarnoputri. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_58_0 | Indonesia is already receiving $400,000 in the current fiscal year for civilian training programs and is to receive a like amount next year; and the United States expects to provide an additional $16 million this year to train police officers in counterterrorism. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_64_0 | "If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them," he said. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_68_0 | The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_69_0 | Powell said his discussions with Mahathir "touched on the case" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had "always felt" were flawed. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_70_0 | The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_71_0 | MICROSOFT TEAMS WITH AT&T TO OFFER SOFTWARE FOR WIRELESS DEVICES AND SERVICES Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday a partnership with AT&T Wireless Services to offer software for wireless devices and services, a person close to the talks said Tuesday night. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_80_0 | MONTREAL TRADES FLOYD TO RED SOX FOR TWO PITCHERS Less than three weeks after outfielder Cliff Floyd was imported to Montreal to play a pivotal part in the Expos' playoff plans, he was traded to Boston Tuesday night to try his hand in what the Red Sox hope will be their postseason plans. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_80_1 | MONTREAL TRADES FLOYD TO RED SOX FOR TWO PITCHERS Less than three weeks after outfielder Cliff Floyd was imported to Montreal to play a pivotal part in the Expos' playoff plans, he was traded to Boston Tuesday night to try his hand in what the Red Sox hope will be their postseason plans. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_81_0 | Floyd did not produce the kind of offense the Expos expected from him, so Omar Minaya, the Expos' aggressive rookie general manager, turned around and sent him to the Red Sox in exchange two South Korean pitchers and a player yet to be named. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_81_1 | Floyd did not produce the kind of offense the Expos expected from him, so Omar Minaya, the Expos' aggressive rookie general manager, turned around and sent him to the Red Sox in exchange two South Korean pitchers and a player yet to be named. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_83_0 | Minaya obtained Floyd from the Florida Marlins on July 11, only two weeks after he stunned baseball by acquiring Bartolo Colon from Cleveland. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_84_0 | Colon has won four of five decisions for the Expos, but Floyd batted only .208 for them while hitting three home runs, including one Tuesday night, and driving in four runs. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_86_0 | The Expos, who had a 46-41 record when they made their first Floyd deal, had only a 7-12 record with him on the team, dropping from 9 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the National League East to as many as 16 games back. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_86_1 | The Expos, who had a 46-41 record when they made their first Floyd deal, had only a 7-12 record with him on the team, dropping from 9 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the National League East to as many as 16 games back. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_87_0 | Floyd can be a free agent after this season, and Minaya decided it would be more prudent to trade him and get value in return than have to settle for a draft choice or two as compensation when he signed with another team as a free agent. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_87_1 | Floyd can be a free agent after this season, and Minaya decided it would be more prudent to trade him and get value in return than have to settle for a draft choice or two as compensation when he signed with another team as a free agent. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_97_0 | But as the day wore on, the Red Sox tried harder and by Tuesday night were able to get the player they wanted for their lineup. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_110_0 | So, after six years of planning, he opened the Excel Institute Automotive Program, a two-year school that gives people a chance at a new life as an auto technician or in another job related to the field. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_111_0 | The school, now in its third year, has been so successful that it recently received a $2 million grant from Congress. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_118_0 | In 1973, he was young enough to be a part of the Redskins' Over the Hill Gang, and in 1981 he was old enough to be one of the team's original Hogs. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_120_0 | He earned a physics degree from Columbia, became a Redskin, studied drama, worked in sports broadcasting, opened a Washington restaurant and built his own home here when he thought he might become a developer, "just so I could know how the business worked from the ground up," he said. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_149_0 | And when I become a technician, I will help the poor and needy by giving them affordable rates." | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_151_0 | The city has talked with Starke about using his students for some vehicle repairs. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_61_0 | "I think they recognize the danger that we all face and I think they have been cooperating more fully with us as time goes by, and I'm quite sure that Mrs. Megawati is committed to this cause," Powell said in Singapore. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_108_0 | Starke, I'm tired of going to bed at night with a Tech-9 gun under my pillow."' | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_99_0 | That was more evident here than in any other city, said George Starke, who after his career as an offensive tackle with the Washington Redskins from 1973 to 1984 stuck around and decided to make this place more than his home. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_99_1 | That was more evident here than in any other city, said George Starke, who after his career as an offensive tackle with the Washington Redskins from 1973 to 1984 stuck around and decided to make this place more than his home. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_98_0 | EX-HOG OFFERS JUMP-START AND HELPS CHANGE LIVES WASHINGTON With the barrage of crack cocaine-connected killings in the 1980s came the realization that young people were too often full-fledged players in the violence. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_7_1 | It was the first time that the Senate Ethics Committee had voted to take action against a senator since 1995, when it recommended that Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, be expelled on the ground of sexual and official misconduct. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_5_0 | The ethics panel, to which evidence from the criminal case was forwarded, concluded its review just as Torricelli is gearing up his campaign for re-election against the Republican candidate, Douglas R. Forrester. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_16_1 | The committee criticized Torricelli for maintaining a "personal and official relationship with Chang under circumstances where you knew that he was attempting to ingratiate himself, in part through a pattern of attempts to provide you and those around you with gifts over a period of several years." | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_17_1 | During that time, the panel said, Torricelli and members of his Senate staff took a series of actions to help Chang, contacting U.S. government officials, writing letters to foreign government officials and bringing Chang or his business representatives into meetings with foreign officials. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_56_0 | Powell heads to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, late on Thursday before finishing a weeklong trip through the region in the Philippines on Saturday. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_82_0 | The teams made the deal less than 24 hours before Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline for making trades without first getting waivers on players. | [] |
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_159_0 | For this school, once they are in, all they have to do is come every day, come on time every day and work hard. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_167_0 | In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_167_1 | In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_168_0 | Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, "The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism." | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_178_0 | On Tuesday night, Redden took the podium for nine minutes before the gavel came down, recognizing bidders in the audience and on the telephone. | [] |
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_182_0 | The gavel sounded at $6.6 million after a Sotheby's senior vice president, Selby Kiffer, made the final bid for the anonymous buyer on the telephone. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_186_0 | Fore of the mint said the high price for the coin was reached "because it is one of a kind, it is beautiful and it has a great story." | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_187_0 | The coin was the only 1933 double eagle that has ever been legally offered for sale, and its Maltese Falconesque history only recently came to light, thanks to documents unearthed during the five-year legal battle over its ownership. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_188_0 | In 1792, it was deemed that all gold and silver U.S. coins would bear the depiction of an eagle, but gold pieces were issued only after a gold rush boom in 1850. | [] |
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_195_0 | But before these coins came to light, the royal legation of Egypt turned up with one at the Department of the Treasury, and somehow got an official to issue an export license for the coin to enhance the collection of King Farouk. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_195_1 | But before these coins came to light, the royal legation of Egypt turned up with one at the Department of the Treasury, and somehow got an official to issue an export license for the coin to enhance the collection of King Farouk. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_197_0 | In 1954, after the king was deposed, his coins were sold at auction and the double eagle vanished. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_198_0 | It went underground until it came to Fenton in 1995. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_199_0 | His arrest in Manhattan, after attempting to sell the coin for $1.5 million, led to a court battle over whether -- thanks to the Treasury's mistaken export permission in 1944 -- the coin could be legally owned. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_199_1 | His arrest in Manhattan, after attempting to sell the coin for $1.5 million, led to a court battle over whether -- thanks to the Treasury's mistaken export permission in 1944 -- the coin could be legally owned. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_201_0 | The coin once again escaped destruction when it was moved from the Treasury Department vault in 7 World Trade Center eight months before the building collapsed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. | [] |
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_208_0 | Your acceptance of a television and stereo CD player upon payment from David Chang of an amount you understood to be the cost to Mr. Chang, rather than fair market retail value, evidenced poor judgment, displayed a lack of due regard for Senate rules and resulted in a violation of the Senate Gifts Rules (35) and, conse... | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_210_0 | Your acceptance on loan from Mr. Chang of bronze statues (eagle and bronco buster) for display in your Senate office under your office's policy of accepting the loan of home state artwork was not consistent with Senate rules governing such loans, evidenced poor judgment, displayed a lack of due regard for the Senate ru... | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_212_0 | Your failure to act to prevent the acceptance of or to pay for gifts of earrings from Mr. Chang to individuals (your sister, an employee and a friend) in your home at Christmas on the mistaken belief that such items were of little value or were not gifts to you under the circumstances, evidenced poor judgment, displaye... | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_220_0 | After evaluating the extensive body of evidence before it and your testimony, the committee is troubled by incongruities, inconsistencies and conflicts, particularly concerning actions taken by you which were or could have been of potential benefit to Mr. Chang. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_224_0 | . . expresses its determination that your actions and failure to act led to violations of Senate rules (and related statutes) and created at least the appearance of impropriety, and you are hereby severely admonished. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_228_0 | . . as well as your commitment to pay for any item which the committee might conclude were in violation of the rules, and has further concluded that you must pay Chang an amount sufficient to bring the total to fair market retail value of the TV and CD player, as well as the fair market retail value of the earrings giv... | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_256_0 | The court, vacating Nelson's death sentence for the second time, ruled on two grounds: that the jury could have been confused by instructions on the verdict sheet and that the prosecutor made improper accusations in his closing argument. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_264_0 | Zazzali and Long had expressed similar reservations in June 2001 when the court overturned the death sentence of Thomas J. Koskovich, who was 18 when he killed two pizza deliverymen in an ambush. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_264_1 | Zazzali and Long had expressed similar reservations in June 2001 when the court overturned the death sentence of Thomas J. Koskovich, who was 18 when he killed two pizza deliverymen in an ambush. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_267_0 | Two of the court's members, Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz and Justice Peter G. Verniero, did not participate in the Nelson case because both are former attorneys general. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_269_0 | After undergoing sex change surgery in 1992, she pursued a career as an exotic dancer. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_270_0 | In April 1995, while she was living with her parents in Haddon Heights, outside Philadelphia, law enforcement officers arrived at the house with a warrant for Nelson's arrest on another weapons charge. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_271_0 | During a 14-hour standoff, she killed a patrolman and an investigator from the Camden County prosecutor's office. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_276_0 | Marshall, an insurance agent from Toms River, was convicted of hiring a man to kill his wife while the couple were going home after an evening of dining and gambling in Atlantic City. | [] |
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_288_0 | Nor is it likely his sentence would have been reaffirmed if Mubarak believed that convicting an American citizen for promoting democracy and human rights might jeopardize his own standing with the Bush administration and the $2 billion annual American subsidy that keeps his government afloat. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_261_0 | In its 5-to-0 decision in the Nelson case, the court showed continuing uneasiness with the death penalty, as it has done even since adopting a voluminous set of review procedures in 1999 to govern capital cases. | [] |
because_20020731-nyt.ann_263_0 | Justice James R. Zazzali and Justice Virginia Long said in a separate opinion that in addition to the reasons given in the majority opinion, also written by Zazzali, they believed the death penalty would constitute cruel and unusual punishment because of Nelson's history of emotional disturbance. | [
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_165_0 | As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price "suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong," said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer. | [] |
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because_20020731-nyt.ann_249_0 | As for the claim about his success as comptroller, where he controls the state pension funds, there is no disputing the funds' growth during his terms, but some critics say it had more to do with the buoyancy of the stock market in the 1990s than skilled management. | [] |
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