To these firsts, I dare say she would like another: that of being the first Australian politician to take part in a same-sex marriage.

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And as good of a show as they put on, I dare say it pales in comparison to the show their young countryman Rory McIlroy accomplished over 72 holes in Bethesda, Maryland this past weekend.

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But his record on taxes over more than two decades as a legislator and governor turns out to be much more complicated (dare I say nuanced) than that.

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"Oswald is more modern in a sense, because he's a little bit less well-behaved, a little bit quicker to anger, a little bit, dare I say, edgier, " he said.

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If the World Bank is going to help find solutions to the lingering problems of global poverty and underdevelopment, its next President must be a person that comes to the job with a willingness to experiment and a heavy dose of, dare I say it, humility.

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But good care will require all of the tools that, dare I say it, have been proposed in the Affordable Care Act to assure that information is shared in a way that avoids repeated and unnecessary medical tests.

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Thanks to Feeney, psychology as practiced is very different, and dare I say for many life as lived is different.

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Or, dare I say it, whatever glitch it was in the system that allowed Apple to patent a rectangular shape with rounded corners.

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"It would have been nice to get more but we have nearly 230 runs in the bank and I dare say that if conditions stay similar, which they might do, then Pakistan will certainly find it difficult as well, " said Katich.

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