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    If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It will not be as a maverick, nor even as an idealist. It will be as a signal that maybe, just maybe, people power can still beat the money power. That senators aren't just extensions of parties and presidents, and that politics can be about something more than Democratic toothpaste versus Republican toothpaste.

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    You can't buy bullets with food stamps," says Nick Rael, the store owner of the one store in Milagro, New Mexico, when Amarante Cordova peals off four one-dollar stamps and carefully lays them on the counter.

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    The plane will not make a difference. It is an effort to defy the laws of physics as well as the laws of nations, and it's going to fail on both accounts.

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    We're not doctors. We have to tell people that all the time. They look at us when we walk in the door and they assume we know everything.

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    Last year when I took this course, we had to cover the front of our masks with duct tape,

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    On or about July 12, 2003, Libby flew with the Vice President and others to and from Norfolk, Virginia on Air Force Two. On his return trip, Libby discussed with other officials aboard the plane what Libby should say in response to certain pending media inquiries, including questions from Time reporter Matthew Cooper.

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    If a Cuban has the choice of seeing old exiles shout at each other or to watch CNN or HBO, what do you think they are going to do?

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    From the science point of view, the thing I get worried about is the paucity of information, the fact that we are dealing with something that is evolving very rapidly. We may not have the time to do the long-standing research,

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