But unlike public schools, they are not bound to the rules and regulations of a district, state or teachers union.

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The poll also didn't ask about Cuomo's push for a law to provide state tuition assistance to college-bound illegal immigrants, and the decriminalization of public possession of small amounts of marijuana.

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Yet a state built solely on the SPLM's narrative is bound to disappoint.

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Mr Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, points out that state capitalism's fate is bound up with the fortunes of some very unpleasant political cliques, such as the Saudi royal family and the Russian oligarchy.

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Dr. Dietz is set to testify that Mr. Valle's fetish interests seem to have originated in early adolescence, when he watched the 1994 film "The Mask, " which contains a scene in which a character portrayed by actress Cameron Diaz pretended to be abducted and bound, the court papers state.

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Additionally, Clinton is bound by U.S. law to impose sanctions on any state that explodes a nuclear bomb.

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It is a social institution that predates both church and state and has been part of the glue that has bound countless successive societies together.

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