In fact, Fosca is so much of a harpy and so conniving that it's hard to believe her hellish persistence could ever turn Giorgio into her admiring lover.

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Is it so hard to believe that we are living next door to a country that is more or less third world and that in order to survive their perception of their neighbors we must take unusually strong and safe precautions in avoiding their intent ?

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Also not so hard to believe is that some of these people actually are able to become billionaires and to help others become wealthy as well.

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It is hard to believe that they did so entirely spontaneously.

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From his conduct as president so far, it is hard to believe that Mr Bush's own deepest values are those of an imperialist plantation owner.

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David Catania, a District council member, says it is hard to believe that a businessman would invest so much in a shadow campaign and not tell the beneficiary.

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What I find hard to believe is not that Ciavarella would say something so ridiculous, but that his defense attorney actually thought that saying something this stupid would actually help the case.

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Following on that, there is frustration now I believe with the efforts by some to roll back the protections the President fought so hard to put into place through the Wall Street reform act that was passed and signed into law.

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