Now they don't, either because they burn themselves out - it's so much more work at the top than it used to be - or they get offers they can't refuse, because Washington is full of advocacy and law firms and other things that they're attracted to.

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The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.

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The war is raging, right now, and it may take years to burn out.

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But those very characteristics could render it vulnerable to a fast burn-out.

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Is it any surprise, then, that so many good teachers burn out or become disenchanted?

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The vocal coaches will help him, and he'll either figure it out in the near future or he'll crash and burn like the fire Eben Franckewitz never quite set to the rain.

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It points out that obesity is caused by consuming more calories than we burn, and that calories come from many sources, including Coca-Cola.

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It then accepted a bail-out from the EU and IMF on the understanding that it would not try to burn the senior bondholders of Ireland's bust banks.

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