Murray took the first set in the final against Federer, and for a moment, it appeared history was on the verge.

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Of course, books can be written to explain all the intricate details of the law, its administration, its history, and the various arguments for and against its constitutionality.

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On gun control: When Bradley reached into the history books and chastised his opponent for voting against several gun control measures as a congressman, Gore proudly reminded the audience that, as vice president, he had voted to break a Senate tie and enact the ban on assault weapons.

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But we have analysed the potential killer virus against the history of the 2009 Swine Flu and where a drugs cure for a future avian human-to-human killer virus will come far too late.

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The biggest problem, though, is that any ideas for coping with sprawl have always run up against local politics, racial tensions, history and, not least, geography.

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Ndlovu's hat-trick was only the second in the eight-year history of the tournament and the first for Zimbabwe since Vitalis Takawira scored three against Cameroon in 1995.

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The four not-dead plaintiffs argue that there is no state-law authority for the purge and that because Texas has a history of voting-rights violations (not against the undead, but still), it was required by the federal Voting Rights Act to get pre-approval for the relevant rule change.

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