"I'd rather it had been at Carolina than Duke, " he said.

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But I bet they'd rather have had him accept it.

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Distracted by what I'd seen, my mind wandered, and I only realized after some time that we'd gone rather farther into the suburbs than I had anticipated.

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But face it: If you had millions in the bank, you'd quickly realize that you wanted a Ferrari rather than a Corvette , a Range Rover instead of a Cadillac Escalade, and so on.

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It was rather the unknown airmail pilot who'd dared to do what had never been done by any aviator before him, the adored Lone Eagle, boyish and unspoiled still, despite the years of phenomenal fame.

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Asked if such tactics had failed in places like Afghanistan, where members of the Taliban movement seized power and imposed harsh Islamic rule with arms supplied by the United States in the 1980s, he replied: "I'd rather have the problems we have in Afghanistan than the problems we had during the Cold War, " he said, referring to the Soviet invasion there in 1980.

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If you have ever had to retrieve one of these things with a winch, you know, you'd really rather not.

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The problem was, that had all taken place back when there was an "us" an entity I'd rather abruptly shattered when I called off the wedding a few weeks before it was supposed to take place.

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