It had never mattered, that kind of idiocy, in this school.

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Yet, common sense has never really mattered when it comes to Armstrong.

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It mattered little to the bank that buyers had never reviewed the prospectus in Germany detailing those risks.

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It hardly mattered how many people sneaked in: The Patriots never sold out Foxboro (then called Sullivan Stadium) and lost hundreds of games on the field and millions of dollars off of it.

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And what else is in the Mulcaire file about the techniques that many find truly shocking about how the News of the World behaved as though the only thing that mattered was landing the story, and never mind how it was obtained?

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