And, of course, who can forget high profile mothers like Susan Smith and Casey Anthony, both accused of murdering their children one convicted and one acquitted.

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In forming these views, he is assisted by his foreign policy team which includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mark Brzezinski, Anthony Lake, Susan Rice and Robert Malley.

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Second, the four of us each reached into our networks to solicit names from other savvy insiders (special thanks to president of the James Beard Foundation Susan Ungaro, Rick Tramonto, Thomas Keller and Anthony Giglio, among many others).

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