We still stick by the idea that true inovation will only come when cable customers can chose both their hardware and their software, but we you can bet we'll bite our tongue and enjoy some HD when we are not standing on our soap box.

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Coming off the heels of disappointing third quarter results which drove Annaly shares lower by 3.59% Tuesday, Denahan-Norris may regret his impromptu soap-box speech.

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The possessor of fine intelligence, he was not on a soap-box, or bent on influencing the great and good, though he got their attention just the same.

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Perhaps that is what being a great parliamentarian amounts to: a rather grander version of the soap-box orators at Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner, whose fulmination is not closely listened to but whose mere presence is supposed to reassure onlookers that all is well with democracy.

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