He believed in the essential goodness of the American people, and that we had a special duty to promote peace and freedom for the rest of the world.

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TiVo and Windows Media Center users that rely on CableCARDs to get 'em HD goodness have had a unique reason to prefer Verizon FiOS TV over the competition, which is apparently at its last stop.

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"Oh my goodness, I mean, we had a ton of momentum...then the power goes out for what felt like an hour, " Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta said.

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Mr Drace-Francis said in his telegram that the crumpled Mr Ashcroft had threatened over breakfast to stir up trouble for Britain in the Turks and Caicos Islands (thank goodness this foreign-policy calamity was averted) unless he was helped to break into the islands' banking business.

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