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On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley.
Bush voters could switch to McCain considering how the primaries play out.
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Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border.
President Clinton’s law significantly improved the highway system of the US.
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Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.
The article explains that Dan Quayle has already been anointed the inevitable one.
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The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others.
The field helps determine the debate over choosing a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist.
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Based on scuttlebutt and speculation from insiders at the Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford White Houses, here are the four likeliest scenarios for presidential adultery.
We used our knowledge of the Clinton, Reagan, Bush, and Ford White House’s to come up with the most likely scenarios for adultery.
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If the wound to Eappen's skull was new, asked Scheck, why had scar tissue formed around it?
Eappen's head wound was fresh.
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Consider Ehrlichman's reference to a certain left-wing Harvard professor, [first name unknown] Pomerantz, or whatever his name is, whose generosity towards the George McGovern campaign raises Nixon's suspicions.
George McGovern is a left-wing politician.
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Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia.
It will be raining across the country.
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Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.
Carter was the matriarch of the family.
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Recently amended federal confidentiality laws have prompted such schools as the University of Delaware, Indiana University, and Penn State to notify parents when students under 21 violate campus rules concerning drugs or alcohol.
There have been no new changes to federal confidentiality laws in quite some time, and, it appears as though there never will be, for the foreseeable future.
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After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession.
The judge nor the legal professional were responsible for the book being so boring.
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It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen.
The Kennedys are plagued by tragedy in their history.
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When Sam Donaldson pointed out on This Week that two Republicans, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, had pioneered engagement in the Shanghai Communique, George Will I was for impeaching Nixon over the Shanghai Communique!
Sam Donaldson is a democrat.
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I did not plagiarize.
I copied verbatim another's work for my own benefit.
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But unlike the Manhattan Project--in fact, like no other Big Science project in history--the Genome Project has equipped itself with a research division to explore the social and ethical ramifications of genetics.
The Genome Project could change the ethics behind genetics forever.
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Deciding he'd like to make an eccentric regional comedy with universal themes, he journeyed to a village in Ireland, set himself up in the pub, and took notes on what he saw and heard.
He went to a pub in Geremny to do research.
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We look around our own solar system, and what appears to be common are planets that have no life whatsoever.
When looking across our Solar System we find it full of lifeless planets.
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It would be more true to say that Gopnik's need to see Picasso as a rascal deforms his view of Picasso's art.
Picasso was a rascal.
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The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership.
Smith is giving up his chair in the committee and on the caucus.
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Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime.
I refuse to talk to you about this topic since your argument is incorrigible.
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It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.
The band performed a blues song.
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White Sox) and showcase the sport's stars in more cities, thereby boosting attendance and merchandise sales, which, in turn, will enable owners to satisfy players' skyrocketing salary demands.
Attendance will not be increased with these new changes.
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
Older forms of association draw people away from new forms of social organization.
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Unless you can go back in time, cutting the tax rate on existing capital gains cannot possibly increase investment in productive resources.
Cutting the capital gains tax rate is the best way to increase productive resources.
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Because Accidents Happen , on Tuesday and Wednesday (8-10 p.m.) Using the fig leaf of studying survival engineering and safety pointers, PBS gives us fires, crashes, and sinking ships.
PBS hosts programs that showcase the study of survival engineering and safety every Tuesday and Wednesday between 8-10 p.m.
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a consuming addiction, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden.
Stephen Holden knows the reason behind this consuming addiction.
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As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink.
I am up-to-date on the latest slang.
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Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.
Beatty was an avid supporter of the Clintons.
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That is, we're paralyzed by the repeated idea that his election is inevitable.
The inevitability of his election paralyzes us.
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officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion.
The treaty is the best one there has ever been.
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The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.
The Republican candidate does not have a a lot of experience holding an elected position.
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All you've said when you endorse privatization is that if there were water, it should be used to make lemonade.
You should avoid making lemonade out of water.
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As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.
Oral citations are easier to gather for lexicographers, in contrast to written ones.
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Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
Developers add features.
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Perhaps people who work in group settings where some hand is always out can start a reverse Limit forced-march giving to $2.
The forced-march that people can start will only amount to $1 per person.
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Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch].
Perjury time is serious.
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We're talking about president of the United States.
We talking about the Speaker of the House of the United States.
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In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand declares that [t]here is nothing unconventional about this story.
Louis Menand thinks this is an ordinary story.
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But I'm not kidding, it's time for her to go.
She is liked by everyone and can stay another week.
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Don Michael Randel, currently provost at Cornell University, has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein, who stepped down in June.
Don Michael Randel has received five job offers in the last month.
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Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow.
CNN devotes little time to it's news coverage schedule.
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In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights.
Immigrants have brought new life to New York.
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Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
We need to try those Better Sex instructional videos which were advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
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We hate to sound like Girl Scouts, but you really must accept cookies if you're going to subscribe to
You must accept cookies to subscribe.
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Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.
While it might be easy to separate them, there would be no reason to.
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From home, I call my office three or four times a day.
I make calls from my office to home three or four times a day.
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But Will He Bring Back the Football Team?
The football team has already been brought back
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He looked at her and said, Monday morning.
She looked at him on Monday morning.
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(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)
You should pay attention to all the judges if you have many of them.
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A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January.
The Broadway musical, The Capeman, opened in January.
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And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.
The goal is to be read.
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And this means that capital is not playing its necessary disciplining role.
No discipline is ever meted out.
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The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.
TCM played all features back to back.
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But bizarrely, 1.7 million of those votes were for Kemal Ataterk.
Kemal Ataterk got the most votes out of all the candidates.
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Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
conservative believe that the law is different for everyone and some men are above it.
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USA Today described the models as struggling actresses, reported that they were unaware of the health risks of donating eggs, and quoted one as saying, I'd rather do this than do Playboy or Penthouse . Harris' sole verified bidder told the paper that selling eggs was better than prostitution.
The models are unaware of the health risks of donating eggs.
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Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime.
Your position is definitely debatable.
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Landsburg notes, What if he [the president] keeps us out of war through policies that make the world more dangerous for our children?
Landsburg feels the president is doing a great service for our children in the future.
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I think Michael Jordan is beginning to get a bit frustrated with his new cohorts in the Washington Wizards front office.
It appears Michael Jordan is getting very fed up with his cohorts in the front office of the Washington Wizards.
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He was a very spiritual man, seeor . Some of the birds, however, would just fly straight up and dive down into the ground, embedding their beaks like the Daffy Duck of the gringo cartoon features.
The birds would dive down feet first to gracefully land.
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How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities?
Students take the SAT to get accepted into colleges
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How does one tell foresight from fear?
Fear and foresight are unable to be differentiated.
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And they look so cool.
The author wants to buy the thing that's cool.
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Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.
The mantra was forcefully stopped by Sidney.
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Second, the Newsweek online story stated that the tapes offer no clear evidence to support or undermine Tripp's allegations.
The tape was taken without Tripp's consent
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He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.
The film's dullest scene involves the guardian angel saving the protagonist from being hit by cars.
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Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous.
Starr can be mean.
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Simply have their bouquets be identical and perhaps have them walk together.
The bouquets shouldn't differ from each other.
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But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia.
The overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia is hard to watch.
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Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and of the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines.
Wilson is well versed in all things history.
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These lawyers might make the case that even tobacco companies have rights, and that the public interest actually was served by getting these companies a better bargain.
Lawyers from big tobacco will admit that their clients have no rights and should fined for the greater good of society.
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A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.
A Klein bottle is a crazy illusion that the outside and inside look the same.
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The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive.
The Dispatches and Dialogues include many diverse articles.
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Impeachment is twisting the presidential race, too.
The impeachment is not swaying the results one way or another.
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In Congress, where people think of themselves as underpaid, there's hostility toward Bill Gates based on the fact that he's got a lot of dough and doesn't share it with people like them.
The rich business owner was generous with his money.
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On the rare occasions the service is queried, it invokes the Dead President.
The service is queried about the dead President.
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Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
You should not be involved in things that don't concern you.
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I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.
However his name is pronounced, I like the way the letters are arranged.
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Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif.
Oakland got a new mayor, Jerry Brown.
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And if he gets this balancing act wrong, he must pander even more furiously to make it up.
A gesture of reconciliation would make his position worse
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When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.
Stewart is reaching less people than the 3rd US President.
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Or the ad when the Wagnerian soprano (G.W.)
Wagnerian soprano was in an ad before.
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Other IOC members have resigned or are still being investigated.
They are being investigated for charges of bribery.
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5) Dueling spins : The New York Times says the scandal will dog and impede Clinton's foreign policy.
There was never a scandal that would interfere with Clinton's foreign policy.
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Now it stands to monopolize it, thanks to its ad dollars and its friends in the media.
The product was so bad it failed.
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Success in Ireland just proves that the World's Only Superpower must intervene more frequently, say Kristol, Steve Roberts, and George Will ( This Week ). A few pundits stress potential pitfalls along the road to peace.
The World's Only Superpower needs to be more active and vigilant.
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Well, his proof does leave one loophole.
The loophole shows his proof is perfect.
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As the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies the century, says Time .
Despite being the century's greatest thinker, being born into royalty made him a political snob.
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The news that I am laying waste to an entire generation of men exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard.
It has been said that I have enriched the lives of many men within this generation.
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What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
The exhibition was believed to be completely dreary.
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A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
Dentists a generation ago only pulled teeth, they didn't fill teeth or cast dentures.
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Moreover, typical viewers aren't apt to stumble upon these sites.
A typical viewer would really have to search to find these sites.
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The following letter contains perhaps the funniest story the Shopping Avenger has heard about U-Haul, and by now the Shopping Avenger has received upward of 6.7 million complaints about U-Haul.
This letter contains what may be the funniest story among the 6.7 million complaints the Shopping Avenger has received about U-Haul.
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He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump.
He's a drone, you can't say he's daring or inspiring.
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Let me enlighten Almost every time I need to use the disabled stall (I am in a wheelchair), I have to wait for an AB to leave, and they all apologize meekly when they leave.
The author uses the regular stalls.
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Even liberal economists who are opposing the CPI adjustment understand how good the status quo is for the GOP.
Republicans oppose the tax change.
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But none of these revelations improves the case that Hollywood Communism was a significant threat to democracy.
Democracy was never really threatened by Communism in Hollywood.
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The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains We stayed home.
Kathie Lee told USA Today that she went out often.
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Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.
Financial crisis shouldn't be considered as divine justice
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Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
Microsoft has made it known far and wide how it has affected Washington.
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