Now the challenge is putting the Humpty-Dumpty deal talks back up on the wall, with the whole world watching.

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But it is dismaying that conservatives should feel a natural kinship with a figure whose defining characteristics would seem even to them to be a back up against the wall, a sharply limited number of options, and very little time remaining.

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After the song, Burton offers up a "one more thing" to the crowd, staff members opening up the back wall to reveal the second half of the room, as a man picks up the guitar at the side of the stage, for an instrumental jam.

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"My back was up against the wall, " Rutten recalls.

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Richard Wolff, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, used figures from a new Congressional Budget Office report to back up the basic claim of Occupy Wall Street.

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They want to roll back Wall Street reform so that we end up with the same financial system we had that got us into this mess in the first place.

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We were gratified to see that Samsung sets up their show floor breaching wall just like our setup in the Engadget offices back home.

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This comes up because of a Wall Street Journal piece on how credit card peddlers are surreptitiously making their way back to college campuses.

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Nestle famously ended up on the wrong end of a massive Greenpeace campaign a few years back after overreacting to posts on its Facebook wall about palm oil.

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