But they remain perplexed.

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"But people being slightly perplexed is maybe not a bad thing, " she adds.

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But the people who seem perplexed by the thing, or aggrieved, or even cheated somehow, are sadly typical of a widespread attitude among news consumers: News is free.

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"I think Tolstoy himself would have been perplexed by all this, but Sofya, his wife, would have been over the moon, " Mirren said.

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But with the apparent CEO flop now hovering over that coronation, the state regulators are perplexed.

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