Though they have their differences, they all want to be reborn as tastier dumplings coated with a sweet-bean paste, and to remain side by side, as before, on the same skewer.

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Internet users should see their Internet applications continue to operate as they always have, e-mail clients to look exactly the same as they did before, and the appearance of websites to remain unaltered.

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However, those who want to remain in the current system can continue to file as before.

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The proposal would require military personnel returning from deployments to remain stateside for at least as long as they were overseas before returning.

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In many instances, our laws require immigrant spouses to return to their home countries and remain there for as long as 10 years before reunification is permitted.

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There will be those, of course, who will claim we have heard all this talk of openness, transparency and the end of spin many times before and will remain to be convinced on that as well as the policy front.

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The details, though, remain obscure which serves as a reminder of just how much remains to be found out before even the local climate truly becomes explicable.

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Or Mr Barghouti could be elected in Mr Abbas's place but remain in prison as a diplomatic pawn, waiting for Israel to extract some public promises from him before his release.

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