Instead of recycling the usual cliches about quaint old Blighty, he gave us something between incredible spectacle and political theater.

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Something between the four of us broke, for good.

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It may be that the United States of America has slightly different interests of those of France, but the bedrock of trust between us is something that he also has with all European leaders.

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But it tells us something of the difference between the UK and Scottish fiscal positions, depending how you want to use the figures.

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"The interaction between all of us on this record was really something special, " he said.

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The challenge is finding the right balance between the two -- something that will continue to confront us all in the days after September 11.

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We suspect that 1997's gap between sales growth and earnings growth is trying to tell us something.

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"If they leave Congress with nothing accomplished on health care, which they are going to, then it's going to be something that is easy to translate to people, it defines the differences between us, " Baesler said.

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What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.

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