In this sense cancer acts like the ultimate terrorist, planting its nightmarish idea in all of us, even those it chooses to spare its terrible biology.

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Mr. Obama chooses not to be president of all of us, seeking an affordable, livable solution to our long-term fiscal challenges.

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Instead, he says the US wants permission to act when it chooses.

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Now Ohio State, along with the rest of us, must sit back and await whether the NCAA chooses to impose further sanctions.

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"The odds are so heavily stacked against a defendant who chooses to plead not guilty and then is subsequently found guilty that the vast majority of people facing trial in the US opt to take a plea agreement, " she said.

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