If convicted on all charges, Hatch faced up to 47 years in prison.

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And Mr Hatch, for all his conservative bona fides (he has introduced bills in the Senate to amend the constitution to require balanced budgets four times over the years), worked happily with no less a leftie than Edward Kennedy to bring in children's health insurance and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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It is full of turtle nests now that are going to hatch, and they're all going to die.

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Perhaps Mr Hatch is on to something after all.

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First Bus suspended buses services in Bath and Wells while Taunton firm Hatch Green Coaches said it had withdrawn all of its services.

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When was a sport hatch slower to 60 than 9 seconds, after all?

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The Rizk absorbs all the aggregation of modern componentry and still manages to have soul at speeds a modern hot-hatch would laugh at.

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