Looney, who in 1920 proposed an Elizabethan courtier, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

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The friendship between 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion and Lieutenant Brendan Looney reflects the meaning of Memorial Day.

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Adam Looney at the Brookings Institution has a nice new paper on the Bush tax cuts.

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His roommate at the Academy was Brendan Looney, a star athlete and born leader from a military family, just like Travis.

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Martin Looney, the task force's Democratic co-chairman, in response to Mr. Kissel.

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Both she and Looney developed their theories in a spirit of religious doubt, and in the throes of their own personal crises.

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He is chairman of the board, along with his sister, Victoria Looney, a Louisiana businesswoman who owns less than 1% of the company's shares.

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It is striking how quickly Google has turned this from being a looney, kind of fringe idea, to something that feels a lot like a consumer-ready product.

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In any case, it was just as easy to enjoy it as a grown-up, in the same way that when you now look at Looney Tunes starring a knowing Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, you realize that their creators wrote them as much for their own amusement, chock full of double entendres, as for children's.

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Moreover, while Paramount has decided to make a go of it with their own animated content (such as the Oscar-winning Rango from two years ago), Warner Bros. could have frankly used a powerhouse animation slate as they have mostly failed to capitalize on big-screen variations of their various DC Comics television franchises or The Looney Tunes.

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