Could we communicate with them?

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We did the best we could to communicate a message of calm and hope, as we stood on the pavement watching a cloud come through the cavernous streets of lower Manhattan.

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"When Hafwen's LSA left no-one could communicate with her, so we withdrew her from the school, " said Mr Clarke, 45.

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Washington and New York have never understood each other, and we could be heading for yet another of their periodic failures to communicate.

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What more could we do if the folks in our apartment block could easily connect and communicate?

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If Facebook with its 1 billion users can replicate that kind of success, it could mark not only a step forward for Facebook but a shift in the way we all communicate.

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