Mr. Kozodoy identified another source of the left's strident animus for Mr. Podhoretz.

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The same kind of animus has been directed at CNN's Piers Morgan, an outspoken advocate of gun control.

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Tuesday's showdown is the perfect storm of personal animus and political reality.

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In an investigative report on Obama published last week by the American Thinker Web site, Ed Lasky documented multiple examples of Wright's anti-Jewish and anti-white animus.

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Carson's shooting came after other attacks fueled by anti-gay animus in recent weeks, authorities said.

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The U.S. companies approved Tuesday include Affinity Hosting, Alabanza, Animus Communications, Concentric Network, Domain Registration Services, EnetRegistry.com, InterAccess, PSINet and TierraNet.

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Her animus was given expression this month with the Council for Higher Education of Judea and Samaria's decision to upgrade Ariel College to the status of university center.

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Of course, the conceit of the AC series has always been that you're a modern man named Desmond Miles, a member of the ancient Assassin's Guild, and that you're experiencing your assassin lineage through a machine called the "Animus" in order to save the world.

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