Last week, my colleague wrote about Judge Robert Bacharach, who was recommended to the White House by one of his Republican home state Senators, but waited 263 days for a floor vote before being confirmed 93-0.

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What makes this fine so outrageous is that the EPA itself had certified the very biofuel companies who were perpetrating the fraud, and even after having discovered the fraud, they waited 15 months to notify the refiners who were being victimized by it.

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Rauf waited a while before contacting them to make sure they were not being followed, and then met them in Faisalabad, an hour's drive from Tanweer's home town.

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Everyone waited all year for this activity and I always admired my mom for being the organizer because my friends all thanked me for her doing it.

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While we all waited patiently in long lines to see nothing, the real technology news was being made back in Silicon Valley.

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While we waited, the stories began to circulate about more and more people, just private citizens, being allowed to travel abroad to visit their relatives and friends.

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My next memory involves being at the bottom of a Costa Rican river wondering which direction was up and holding my breath while I waited for my life-preserver to sort things out which it did.

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