Before it gets to the climax, however, "Body of Lies" offers a long, elaborate setup -- involving ingenious computer hackery and a not very believable sting operation that creates a rival for Al-Saleem.

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The difference may be where the center of gravity of the body politic lies.

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The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.

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For example, we know where and when Columbus died -- in the northwestern Spanish city of Valladolid, in 1506 -- but there are questions about where his body lies.

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There Evita lies embalmed beneath tonnes of reinforced concrete - dumped there to protect her from crazed body snatchers and desecrators.

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Scientists have long speculated that the key to a person's "natural" life span lies in so-called diseases of aging, those that emerge only as the body begins to wear out.

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