With the U.S. fiscal cliff matter now at least temporarily out of the market place spotlight, focus has turned to other issues.

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It's partly a matter of chivalry, says Mr. Easton, who runs his firm out of a Waverly Place townhouse staffed with beautiful young women (prototypes, he says).

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Once this has taken place, the matter is taken out of the hands of the lower house and goes to the upper house, the Senate.

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No matter what he was saying, he was speaking out of the same deep place then that he spoke from when he was in bed with me.

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But no matter where it was ultimately headed, the act of heroism that took place on that aircraft stands out as one of the most amazing feats of heroism in our country's long history of heroes.

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