Even more disappointingly, it was run by a giant and orderly bureaucracy, in which spirits had to ask permission and list their motives if they wished to contact mediums and had to stand in line, waiting for a clerk to find suitable parents, in order to be born again.

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Mr Bush is unlikely ever to be a born-again green or so we must hope but there is no reason to dismiss his ideas for a shift to clean hydrogen just because car and oil companies may benefit.

ECONOMIST: Energy and the environment

Those arguing for Northern Rock to be returned to the mutual sector as a born-again building society - and there are many of those in Parliament, from all parties - will feel their case is reinforced by today's results from the biggest building society, Nationwide.

BBC: Will Northern Rock be re-mutualised?

But rather than bask in their successful start to the season the modest Trinidad-born Ince is merely happy to be playing again after a difficult time at Coventry.

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Little sister, when I open my mouth and you're free to skip from my belly and out into the sunlight, be born again on your own terms.

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"We are pleased that Fifa has once again upheld the principle that players born in Northern Ireland should be free to choose whether they wish to play for the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, " said an FAI statement.

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So finally and once again, a white person or epileptic person is not in the same ballpark of claiming to be born homosexual.

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