Durbin is not only perfectly placed to do the deed stealthily.

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But the signs are that Keane's football career is lurching out of control - and Ferguson was finally left with no option other than to do the deed that dare not speak its name inside Old Trafford.

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He said he has lost cell phones and saw this as an opportunity to do a good deed.

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Morgan Chase to do a good deed by taking over an institution which, I believe, the bank would never have sought to acquire absent that urging.

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But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.

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If you want a good deed done right, you might need to do it yourself.

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The document urges him to grant King Henry VIII an annulment of his first marriage. (When the pope wouldn't do so, Henry founded the Church of England, which did.) The 1654 deed of abdication of Sweden's Queen Christina, who left her Protestant nation's throne to join the church of Rome, is tied to over 300 round containers, many today empty of wax.

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