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But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propensity to favor attention-grabbing showmanship at the expense of deeper, more time-consuming work.
Barro spreads controversial economic theories to young economists.
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Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm.
Time took issue with the portrayal of Clinton.
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To take one obscure but critical Life on Earth remained entirely one-celled for 3 billion years.
One-celled life forms did not survive long on earth.
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That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.
The device does not want you to touch other people.
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Can you believe this?
We don't know if this is true.
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The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times withhold the story from their first editions but include it on Page One of the home-delivery editions.
The Washington Post declined to run the story.
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But, as in Washington, on snowy days like this, you take what you can get.
Luckily days this snowy are relatively rare.
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For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's.
Cultures are unique and different from one another in the way they produce art.
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The Republican platform advocated that citizenship be denied to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.
Republicans advocate for denying citizenship to illegal immigrants.
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And now, judging by News Quiz responses, these wan titans are barely portrayed at all.
The results from the quiz in the news is how we determined what the reaction was to the wan titans.
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Although Davis has officially retired from the game, he's still mixing sense and nonsense for public consumption.
Davis still actively plays the game and works diligently.
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In a recent op-ed article in the New York Times , the theologian Michael Novak argued that a new appreciation for, and sensitivity to, religious matters was stirring everywhere.
Michael Novak wrote an article for the New York Times.
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Some houses--big and small--have trimmed their lists, consulting closely with the chains to determine what is commercial, and have seen their profits and sales rise.
There are big and small houses.
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Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.
Saddam still had some concerns about a unilateral military action by America.
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They seemed to enjoy it, and it was extremely helpful to us.
They showed no signs of enjoying the task, and they weren't much help either.
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The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.
The promotion of black capitalism was met with resistance from some politicians.
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
It has been said that I was running a laboratory.
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A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.
The new plane is designed to completely eliminate crash landings.
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This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on.
These women loaded coal in order to fuel the train that passed through Omeros.
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But apparently no definitive number ...
Something is unknown.
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The lead essay bemoans the replacement of objective, authoritative, Walter Cronkite-style news by opinionated, entertaining talk.
The lead essay is delighted about the replacement of the objective, authoritative, news style, entertaining talk.
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His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
Julie had many friends.
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Some people insist they don't know what they think until they hear what they say.
The author does not personally believe that people do not know what they are truly thinking until they hear themselves saying it.
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But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.
The earth will not be safe for future generations if we continue trashing it.
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To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.
Mushy curricula, ironically, has a mushy definition.
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And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.
His name alone wasn't enough to lend credibility to enhance funding - he needed to edit the anthologies himself to do that.
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It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.
AOL was the leader in dial-up service.
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Upon him All ultimatelyrests.
It is all upon him.
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The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot.
The nanny rarely spends any time around the children.
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I can imagine a channel devoted to such productions.
The productions would be well received by the public.
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Trent Lott recently called the agency intrusive, abusive, and out of control.
Strong words from Trent Lott were used to describe the agency.
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If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted.
He already lied under oath about parking illegally.
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Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me.
The cost to Ross was apparent.
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All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt.
Gigot is in the lead.
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On the radio, they are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit.
Not even the radio dared to discuss the art exhibit.
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Chrysler's elaborate system of dealerships might, in theory, help Mercedes crack the U.S. market, where its share is now less than 1 percent.
Chrysler's system of dealerships in the best in the US market.
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They think Gates is stepping down-contrary to Ballmer's insistence that Gates is stepping up to his new job-in hopes of appeasing Justice Department warriors who want Gates' head.
Ballmer is telling bold-faced lies in order to aid Gates' chances at avoiding prosecution.
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He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
He did not reached lightness and agility needed.
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Now, to commemorate our first anniversary, in an act of incredible corporate generosity that is every bit as good as providing health insurance (I'm sure that Mr. Gates will make this sort of thing more available should Microsoft prove profitable), Slate
The company has been around for 1 year.
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The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.
The leap from national to supranational regulation can't be compared to anything that happened previously.
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I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated.
Any concerns I have are purely selfless and are about the well-being of others.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital.
Solzhenitsyn was in a Russian hospital.
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Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.
The Globe is trying to get more information on a dead person.
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The company, which is now traded publicly, was started in 1980 by a psychologist named Stephen Gordon, who was restoring a Queen Anne-style house in Eureka, Calif., and found it maddeningly difficult to locate the period-style fixtures he needed.
Gordon started the company with his wife.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write,
I faint all the time when I write about people.
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I do not know what it means to say that the market form of organization itself disables a certain form of freedom.
The author agrees with the claim that freedom is limited in certain types of market form organizations.
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The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment.
Nobody is trying to get people to be interested in the field of art.
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Instead, you're still leading with Jacob Weisberg on Clinton's African apology (Sorry Excuse) and Cullen Murphy's discourse on lying (The Lie of the Land).
Cullen Murphy runs a discourse on lying.
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sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father).
Paul Lynde sang a song in Bye Bye Birdie.
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Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.
sellers tend to hide their secrets from one another due to competition.
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The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The trade organization didn't exist in 1993.
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During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.
Paxon's re-election tour showed how enthusiastic he was in raising Suby.
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For example, the idea of putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom is attractive but, in the long run, federally funded stone tablets will only breed dependency on the nanny state.
The author strongly agrees with the separation of church and state.
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The Korbels and Simova continued to correspond after the war, and Simova met Albright briefly in Prague just after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Albright and Simova fell in love.
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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.
Prior to this, he had been using a more circular paint stroke.
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A basic tenet of biology used to be that the energy requirements of all living things are met ultimately by the sun--mainly through plants converting sunlight into more easily digestible forms of energy.
The basic tenet has changed recently.
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Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life.
The ways in which government employees can be fired was sufficient enough for the unions.
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Slate 's chief political correspondent, looked around him a few months ago and saw nothing but squalor.
The political correspondent saw neglect a few months ago.
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Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent.
Shepard states we are not growing in productivity at all.
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He was 65 at the time.
He is a young man.
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Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.
The fans favor the talk show host less after becoming a Vogue cover model.
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The Washington Post reported that for $5,000, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is offering donors a chance to give Trent Lott and other senators advice at a forum next month.
For a fee, people could advise Trent Lott.
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Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks.
Internet telephony requires use of a rotary dial telephone.
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The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .
The article was published on a saturday.
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Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes.
The reviews for the first one were better than the reviews for the latest one.
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Of course the little things matter.
The author argues we should believe in the finer details.
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It sketches out a pattern of Clinton aides attempting to convince multiple Clinton alleged paramours (Dolly Kyle Browning, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey) to keep silent.
Clinton's aides tried to keep several women - including Monica Lewinsky - silent.
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Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.
Johnson had a hand in the assassination of JFK.
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A story on the JonBenet Ramsey case says her parents are not the only suspects.
Her parents did the crime.
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Dole gave 12 hours of formal interviews and lots more time informally, in part because, as his press secretary Nelson Warfield told me last week, he likes Woodward personally.
Nelson Warfield is not Dole's press secretary.
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TV demos capture neither the exhilaration nor the fear, conveying instead the smug fatuity of some second-unit director who believes social change is for saps; DGA cards are for winners.
TV demos are excellent works of genius.
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(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)
Clinton's popularity can be seen as legitimate if the governor's is.
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And a number of large firms have downsized successfully, most obviously General Electric, which cut an astounding 170,000 jobs worldwide in 12 years while simultaneously tripling its sales.
General Electric will continue to trim their labor force.
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In the age of the divine entrepreneur, no one cares how badly you treat your kid.
People love to gravitate towards the accomplishments of a "divine" entrepeneur.
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I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs.
The author believes that he has ability to influence the prices of artwork.
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But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair.
Some people desire to buy large reclining chairs.
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However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.
There needs to be representation for popular music.
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Do begin again, and Prudie predicts 1999 will be your year.
Prudie is a fortune teller in New York City.
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Birch pointed out that conservatives defend serial and childless heterosexual marriages, but the whole topic was a loser for her.
Conservatives sometimes forget to vote.
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A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that.
Modern women hate being seen as being strong like the hulk.
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According to Helen Lawrenson, a former Vanity Fair editor and Johnson's self-proclaimed ex-lover, this is a romantic view of him.
Helen Lawrenson claimed she had a sexual relationship with Johnson.
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It works terrifically, and the New York Observer 's John Heilpern says it has us ...
It's barely functional and just doesn't get the job done.
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There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.
The artist's works are all similar.
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America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.
In the 1950s, the United States had no middle class.
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Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com.
Morris believes that voters are informed.
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The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The trade organization was formed to protect against rising trade deficits in developing nations.
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Yankees, Cubs vs.
The Yankees and Cubs will never play each other.
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Politicians get away with advertising bogus family bliss
The ads focus on happy parents and children.
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Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.
Several other mafia bosses listen to Sinatra when contemplating life and death.
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Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.
the IRS nabs every bit of tax fraud that occurs.
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(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
The line between fiction and nonfiction is thin.
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Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.
The author enjoys typing.
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George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash .
George Mitchell is well respected.
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the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ...
The guy is from Taiwan.
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Unfortunately, mine were no less vocal in their objections to being kicked out of our bed at those ages than when they were infants.
The parents had to punish the kids.
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He became a devoted editor of George , which seems likely to founder in his absence.
George was a prominent writer.
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The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.
The media was never critical of Bush.
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That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.
teachers have an easy job and are simply making a mountain from a molehill.
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Who can I report disaster fraud to?
There are many ways to defraud as result of a disaster.
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We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?
Martha is a successful entrepreneur who employees hundreds of people.
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