Yet the fact that Britain has recently been involved in two troop-heavy counter-insurgency campaigns does not mean that all or even most future conflicts will be similar.

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But others have noted that his legacy of public service was counter-balanced by heavy drinking in his early years - and the death of a female companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, in 1969 when he drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts and fled the scene.

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However, in the case of Damian Green, you have failed to give a full and frank account of your own state of knowledge, and refused to give a view on whether the police raid on 27 November, involving counter-terrorism police, was heavy-handed.

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Brazil's 2006 team, top heavy with strikers and over-dependent on the counter attack, is far from typical of his work.

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But the game soon descended into an ugly medley of high balls and heavy touches, with Nigel Reo-Coker wasting some decent counter-attacking work from his team-mates with a loose final ball.

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It's doubtful that the heavy-duty psychiatric drugs are better than over-the-counter Benadryl for treating insomnia, says George Simpson, a psychiatrist at the University of Southern California.

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The medicine, called tranexamic acid, is sold over the counter under the brand names Cyklo-F and Femstrual to help women affected by heavy periods.

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