He changed the subject, to politics.

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So he deftly changed the subject, only to be hit between the eyes by Chao, who was steaming about preferences in California, and by Rodriguez, who said he did not want to be a quota-system beneficiary.

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He said he had changed his views on the subject in the "last couple of years" and now thought it was "right in principle".

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Manish, whose name we have changed, suspects he may have been the subject of such enquiries.

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