• Vasella says Jimenez got the job because he has an unusual ability to inspire the troops and give them a clear sense of direction.

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  • But it would be wrong to characterise Dr Soghoian simply as an academic or an activist, because he has an unusual gift for working outside conventional institutional strictures.

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  • Smith insists his decision to draft Cousin into his starting line-up was for the sake of the player's match fitness - not because he has an idea of what Fifa's ruling might be.

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  • Prosecutors suggested the lighter sentence because Mr Ponder has no prior convictions and also because he still has an opportunity to change his ways.

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  • But I almost went for Aston Villa's Ashley Young in the end because he has had an outstanding few months.

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  • The lapsed Senator is really working those long, NBA-tested legs, partly because he feels good--his kickoff speech went well, close to 100 media types are covering him, and the latest polls put him just a few points behind Gore in New Hampshire--and partly because he has only half an hour before sunset, and he wants to lead us to the banks of the Mississippi before then.

    CNN: Bradley's twilight cruise

  • Aides to the Missouri Congressman were surprised to see Susman's name on Bradley's website, not only because Susman raised a big chunk of Gephardt's campaign war chest in 1988 but also because he has been touted as an important benefactor in any White House bid.

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  • It is believed he is considering an admission because he wants to resume his athletic career, and has shown an interest in competing in triathlons.

    BBC: US cyclist Lance Armstrong apologises to Livestrong staff

  • "In the past he has been lost, just because he had such an amazing talent".

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  • Virginia Dejani, the Academy's executive director, said he was made an honorary member because "what he has accomplished defies categorisation".

    BBC: Bob Dylan made honorary member of US Arts Academy

  • Graham's influence has lasted because he was an excellent teacher, at Columbia University, and also a writer.

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  • Although, as Mingo said in his interview with Forbes.com, he has an advantage because he was acclimated to the scrutiny of the media based on being in the Southeastern Conference.

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  • On that he basically has an incomplete because the early record here in Europe has been mixed.

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  • As we neared our deadline Sunday, we heard different views on whether Mr. Strauss-Kahn has diplomatic immunity because he works for an international organization headquartered in Washington.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Strauss-Kahn Charges

  • Tom DeLay is unchallenged as majority whip both because he, too, has powers of patronage and because no one else fancies such an arm-twisting job when the Republican majority is a mere six votes.

    ECONOMIST: There is still life. Harmony is another matter

  • Perhaps the saddest aspect of Mr Khatami's dilemma is that he is being solicited not because he has new ideas or new methods of advancing old ones, but because he is an elder statesman whom the Council of Guardians, a vetting body, would not dare bar from running.

    ECONOMIST: Iran

  • The arrest report stated that Craig claimed his foot had touched that of an undercover officer in an adjacent cubicle "because he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom".

    BBC: The 10 most scandalous euphemisms

  • Partly because he never finished university and partly because of his career as an action star, Estrada has never been accepted -- or, at least, taken seriously -- by his social peers.

    CNN: IS ESTRADA UNSTOPPABLE?

  • And the reason why it has not shown such huge revenue and profit numbers up to now, is primarily just because Zuckerburg has always taken an attitude that he wanted to delay, what is called monetization, until the farthest possible moment, putting an emphasis instead on user growth.

    BBC: Facebook's potential 'unlimited'

  • In Cal Ripken-fashion he has missed just 15 of 2, 600 shows--and those only because he suffered an airplane crash and an aneurysm.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of an event because he refuses to share a platform with Tony Blair.

    BBC: Archbishop Tutu refuses platform with Tony Blair over Iraq

  • Speaking through an intermediary because he is autistic and has learning difficulties, he said he had been adopted at the age of seven.

    BBC: Chilford Hall barn arson: Accused admits drink problem

  • Secretary Gates does not appear to fully grasp this fact, perhaps because he has spent his entire tenure at the Pentagon fighting an enemy that has no air force.

    FORBES: Inside Pentagon, Growing Alarm Over China's Military Prowess

  • Affleck and Garner worked out a system in which they would take turns making a film, which mostly ends up with her being home with the kids, because they've had an infant every time he has directed.

    CNN: From actor to auteur: Ben Affleck's career trajectory

  • He has stepped up this precisely because there's an urgent need to take action on the economy and jobs, and broadly, on some of these issues that is made all the more urgent by Congress's refusal to act -- by Republicans' in Congress refusal to act.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Dr. COHEN: He would say - he would rationalize it by saying that only by head of the army can he be an effective leader of Pakistan because the army has become, by default, one of the strongest, most coherent organizations in the country.

    NPR: Who Might Follow Musharraf?

  • Interestingly, while Argentina faces an energy crisis, experts think that fuel-oil imported from Venezuela cannot resolve the Argentinean energy problem in the long run and scarcely in the short run.16 It seems Kirchner has become an ally of Hugo Chavez because he feels that he represents a new spirit in Latin America.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The meaning of Kirchner's recent defeat

  • "We're pretty excited about it because this has been an unusual winter for us, " he said.

    WSJ: Northeast Braces for Major Blizzard

  • Shivers' attorney has described him as an "unlikely terrorist" because he had cystic fibrosis and a doctor had told him he only had a few years to live.

    CNN: Man acquitted in killing of British soldiers

  • If he agrees to help Frank (Greg Kinnear), it's only because he promises to hold the rest back -- and because Frank has an attractive widow, Gwen (Tea Leoni).

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