Whether the means involve Federal Election Commission disclosure requirements, Securities and Exchange Commission rules on shareholder resolutions, or simply tagging those with opposing views as "hate groups, " the object is clear: to limit debate by forcing one side off the playing field.

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The crew were given the all clear to return to work minutes after the object passed by at 1208 GMT.

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The data will be pored over by scientists for years, but it was immediately clear from the information at hand that the object had experienced significant change since the Deep Impact observations.

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Sergeant MARIA(ph): We got the security team that - they do their job and they clear the area, but there always, you know, there might be that one object on the road that they just bypass and miss, and we might be the one that hit it.

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Milan police said Berlusconi's attacker hit him with a small metal souvenir replica of the Doumo di Milano, the city's central cathedral, but it was not immediately clear whether the man swung at the prime minister with the object in his hand or threw it at him.

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Many EU leaders object to America's planned National Missile Defence project and the U.S. has made clear its worries that the EU's new rapid reaction force could undermine NATO.

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