But would Charles Koch really want to sink money into the troubled media business?

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And Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, who really has been continuing to negotiate with the Democrats in the Senate on this bill, emphasized repeatedly the option of cooperative for health insurance companies rather than a public option, where the government would back one option.

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"We've lulled ourselves into believing we've either won the drug war, or that somehow it really doesn't matter, " says Robert Charles, a former assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement.

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