Public anger after the revelation last year that the missing girl's phone had been hacked forced Murdoch to close the News of the World, which Brooks edited at the time of the hacking.

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The scandal exploded more prominently last July with the revelation that in 2002 the News of the World hacked the phone of a missing 13-year-old girl who turned out to be murdered.

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The folly of this switch by a group of activists who regularly claim their efforts are justified to fight global climate change is made obvious by the revelation late last year that US carbon emissions have plummeted to 1992 levels, largely as a result of widespread switching from coal to natural gas in the power generation sector.

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But last week, came the revelation.

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In the last days of the 1992 campaign, President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse.

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Compounding the uncertainty is The Wall Street Journal's revelation last week that Goldman is under criminal investigation.

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But when Renault sacked Nelson Piquet Jr in July following a string of poor performances, the Brazilian's revelation that he deliberately crashed in Singapore last year to help team-mate Fernando Alonso win the race revived the sense that F1 has serious problems to address.

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Last week, that happened to be the revelation of the cover art for Bioshock Infinite.

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But the sports world was rocked by the revelation that Landis may have taken steroids before his amazing comeback in the Alps last week.

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Australian hospitals are targeting UK trusts with budget problems - a recruitment drive made easier by the revelation from the RCN to the health select committee last October that 19, 400 posts have been lost or frozen in the past year.

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Ofcom initially said it would assess whether News Corp. remained a "fit and proper" owner of BSkyB last summer, after the phone-hacking scandal blew up with the revelation that the News of the World hacked the voice mails of a murdered teenage girl.

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Last week, 60-Minutes re-aired a shocking revelation that the SEC was actually inside Lehman Brothers for most of 2008.

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Centre-half Thomas Vermaelen has been a revelation since his move from Ajax last year but lapses have cost the team as their title push faded towards the end of the campaign.

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For much of last year, it was the victims' truth: no concealment, it seemed, just revelation upon revelation.

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As President Bush tried last week to remind Americans of what went right, his own trip to Iraq was the clearest revelation about why so many Americans just are not listening anymore.

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Even James Murdoch admitted, in evidence to MPs, that last week's revelation that his company had hired a private detective to spy on lawyers representing the victims of phone-hacking and their families was "appalling" and "unacceptable".

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