As a general rule, he tells owners of long-haired dogs to grab the clippers when they see fur growing between the pads of the animal's feet.

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He has long fought brilliantly as a field general in America's cultural wars, from hisDartmouth Reviewdays in the 1980s to his prescient early 1990s critiques of affirmative action.

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Despite Bauer's success, Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers said he has no plans to press his young pitchers into throwing long.

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In that case, he was snagging an asset that had long been thought to be headed for General Electric 's NBC Universal unit.

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Mr Annan, a former UN secretary general who has acted as a diplomatic troubleshooter in several long-running conflicts, said he hoped to "help bring an end to the violence and human rights abuses, and promote a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis".

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General Pervez Musharraf would be doing his people a terrible disservice if he allowed Kargil to join the long list of military mysteries on the LOC.

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General Petraeus, the source says, wants to take advantage of the high troop numbers as long as he can.

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But, Yves Galarneau, the deputy director general of Correctional Services Western Quebec, he'd never seen anything like this escape in his three-decade-long career.

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Aznar, 50, was not on Sunday's ballots, and he had announced long before the war that he would not run for a third term in next year's general elections.

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