One of the things I love about the end of one year and the beginning of the next is the opportunity to clean out my files.

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So, for example, the U.S. Postal Service, everybody would love to have that high-end part of the business that FedEx and UPS are already in, business to business you make a lot of money.

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Ever since Soft Spot, and starting with the title track to 2005's End of Love, he's taken to occasionally needling those for whom expressions of love run counter to a painstakingly maintained ironic distance.

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"We would love to celebrate the Native history of the area, and hopefully help put an end to our ongoing drought of snow, " the email read.

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"I love Malawi, I am committed to help end poverty here, " the pop star said as school children, joined by hundreds of villagers, danced around her at the school.

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