The rope is wrapped around something like a pole, leaving two equal lengths.

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Trying to make life fair through federal taxation is like asking Ernie to eat all the extra licorice until they are equal lengths.

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If there's something irritatingly cocky about a Geat who strips naked to fight a supernatural being on equal terms (Zemeckis goes to "Austin Powers" lengths to hide Beowulf's manhood), his adversary is a curiously sympathetic figure resembling a refugee from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition.

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Other e-mails outline the lengths to which Goldman's minions went to ensure that the firm got equal credit as an adviser to buyer and seller in the all-important rankings of investment banking firms tracked by Thomson Financial.

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