His trip to a poor estate in Glasgow in 2002 for a by election turned out to be more than the usual hand shaking, envelope stuffing, door knocking political trip for the then Conservative leader.

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By 1987 he was bringing clothing and medicine to Baan Borang and then hand-packing a few silk items on each trip to sell door-to-door back in Singapore.

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Going to Wick is a 100 mile round trip from their front door.

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Gates, who is black, had returned home from an overseas trip to find the front door to his home jammed, so he and another man tried to force open the door.

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And one of the examples that people cite is that when President Obama has talked about race directly, as in the case of Harvard history professor Henry Louis Gates, who was arrested in his own home after coming back from a trip and had difficulty getting into the house because his door was stuck.

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The trip from downtown Kuala Lumpur to my Silicon Valley home took 24 hours door to door.

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