It is too easy just to say that he lost, when in doing so he still changed everything.

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"Once he took over everything changed for the better, " Khalid Yafai, who won silver in Moscow, told BBC Sport.

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The diagnosis changed everything he'd ever understood about himself.

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"It changed everything, " he says of that autumn and winter.

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"The penalty changed everything, " he said.

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Suddenly he was for real, and this changed everything.

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Somehow it is soothing to know he is still around when everything else has changed.

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By contrast, Mitt Romney had favored a cap-and-trade system while he was governor of Massachusetts but he has since changed his mind and has done everything possible to curry favor with coal constituencies.

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On the anniversary of the crash, what he would like to remember, he said, are the happy moments before the crash changed everything.

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Everything changed in the spring of his junior year, when on a lark he took a class about clay.

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But Ping Ke, a former radio DJ who quit because he was bored playing the same songs over and over again, says that the Internet has changed everything.

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