For the past two years, Girvan and four friends all professionals in their 30s have been getting together every Thursday to play D and D sitting around a table with inch-high plastic figures, rolling odd dice and saying things in the odd, imagined voices of their characters.

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In all, Inrix figures that the average driver spent about 13 fewer hours sitting in traffic in 2008 than they did in 2007.

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Somebody must have been sitting here that afternoon, using a piece of chalk from the cliffs to draw those figures onto the flints.

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Now, if someone was seen as an acceptable figure by business, political and education figures, many of whom support both Democrats and Republicans, should Obama be faulted for sitting on a board with the guy?

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