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  • In that sense, their site also taps into a heavy metal fan base and subculture that geeks out about of the same things.

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  • The French and Italians share that pleasure in the bandying about of ideas, and have taken to their heart another, now almost forgotten, English novelist.

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  • Which means that bringing a pocket full of Canadian change into the US is in fact a breach of the Helms Burton Act: not something that anyone ever bothers about of course.

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  • But we know that this kind of spending, domestic discretionary spending, which has been the focus of complaints about out-of-control federal spending, makes up only about 12 percent of the entire budget.

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  • "If we get this right, I cannot think of a bigger thing to be working on right now, " said Paul Davison, CEO of Highlight, one of the most buzzed-about of such apps to emerge this year.

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  • Who shall stand against the common wisdom when it is wrong about deterrence, wrong about the causes of war, wrong about the state of the world, wrong about the ambitions of ascendant nations, wrong about history, and wrong about human nature?

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  • Is there a concern about some of the organizations that are raising funds, raising food, raising clothes for the relief effort there -- is there a concern in this White House about some of the controversies around some of these organizations right now, as there's an immediate need and a long-term need?

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  • Gasoline is unusual among the things that we buy for a lot of reasons, and here to help us understand why we feel differently about the price of gas than we do about just of anything else is Valerie Folkes from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

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  • The values that we are fighting for and care about of hard work and looking out for one another, those are not rich values or poor values, or business values or worker values, or red, white, black, Asian -- it doesn't matter -- they are American values. (Applause.) They are American values.

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  • With a crossover point of about 300 percent of FPL for those aged 30 to 44, we estimate that about one-third of those older than age 29 with incomes greater than 138 percent FPL will see higher premiums even after accounting for premium assistance.

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  • If they say those sorts of things about a good faith attempt to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, can you imagine what they would say about any of the trades Gabe is suggesting?

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