In honor of the 25th anniversary, the film has been re-released on Blu Ray, Hill's longtime girlfriend Lisa Caserta has assisted in the publication of a new book by the late gangster and Flavorwire writer Jason Bailey attempted to track down the elusive Pesci, who has retired from acting and all but disappeared.

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Obama was accompanied on the Hill on Tuesday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former moderate GOP House member from the president's home state of Illinois.

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What may unify and solve these puzzles is a theory that was first proposed in 1993 by Robert Duncan of the University of Texas at Austin, and Christopher Thompson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to explain the then newly discovered gamma-ray repeaters.

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