What he did enjoy was having a discussion with a reporter who did their homework and asked thoughtful, relevant and probing questions.

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"It raises questions about whether the Obama team did their homework, " said David Gergen, an adviser to several former presidents and a CNN contributor.

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Wing-Kovarik and his partner did their homework and were eventually able to adopt two sibling boys after relocating to Seattle for Conrad's new job.

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Later, after their parents divorced and remarried, it was the Forna girls' heroic new African stepmother who watched over them, raising money (from Tiny Rowland, among others) and making sure they did their homework.

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It looks like they did their homework.

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Today's Golden Age tends to be the 1950s, recalled as a high point for families before television, divorce and career women spoiled everything: when good children did their homework, Mummy cooked supper, and afterwards they all played Monopoly.

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So some interpret calls for greater disclosure as whimpering by investors who did not do their homework.

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They did not do their homework on massive defaults.

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