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...But I have to tell you, what Judge Jackson was put through was well beyond that,” Biden said....
...“They will be better placed to judge the value of the works, because they are not all necessarily like the ‘Mona Lisa’....
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...“We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now but the fact is we have a big challenge in our country.”...
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...“To imply . . . that I’m in some way guilty for this document, I’m sorry I find [it] very difficult to continue that conversation,” he told the SFO’s prosecutor Edward Brown QC in one charged exchange....
...But she added: “I don’t see the appetite for it here [and] I’m not holding out hope that’s going to be in my jurisdiction . . . I’m operational, I take the system as I find it.”...
...The greatest exponents have so often been overlooked by prize judges, while shoddy examples become colossal bestsellers, that it’s easy to assume most of it simply isn’t very good....
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...Mr Kavanaugh’s confirmation hinges on the votes of three key Republican senators: Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona....
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...I’m still mystified by the incident. Every time I think I’ve managed to unpick the woman beneath the Flotus mantle I am confounded. Each outfit contains some strange new code....
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