Reform of the Palestinian Authority, insists Mr Sharon, must be carried out without the involvement of Mr Arafat and must be run by a Palestinian untarnished by acts of terror.

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Of course, college students are a unique demographic still relatively untarnished by adult life.

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"It's true that SIA's untarnished record now has a blemish on it, " says Kevin O'Connor, a regional airline analyst for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong.

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He has always spoken of his relationship with school-friend Jimmy Trimble as the love of his life a love, moreover, that has remained untarnished in the writer's memory, as Trimble was killed on Iwo Jima in March 1945.

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