People who saw 10-second clips of an interview had roughly the same opinion of the interview subject as did the actual interviewer making a strong case that job interviewers go by first appearances and are fooling themselves into believing they've gleaned additional information from everything that comes after.

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"They're just making up excuses, " Mr. Chen, the activist, said in an interview earlier this week.

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"We are fighting Iran, Russia, the party of the devil and the regime, " a Qusayr rebel commander, identified as Abu Ali, said after the attack in a video interview posted online by an activist network called the Qusayr Media Center, making a play on the name Hezbollah, or Party of God.

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In an interview, he said that "after eight and a half years in the making, " it was "fantastic" to enjoy the validation of a successful test.

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"If colleges do not adapt to shifting demographics and the weak economy making families more price sensitive, there will be fewer institutions, " Wittenberg President Laurie Joyner said in an interview.

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The Tolkein Library has a fascinating interview with Benjamin Harff, an art student who, for his final product, spent months making an illuminated version of J.

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