"He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind, " he told the Register-Guard.

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Mr. Portman, a leading contender to be the 2012 GOP vice-presidential nominee, said he changed his mind after his son Will told him he was gay two years ago.

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After hiring John Sculley as CEO in 1983, Jobs changed his mind about the former Pepsi President and conspired to have him removed.

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In later years, when he and his colleagues had pushed climate change, and in particular greenhouse warming, on to the agenda, people keen to ensure a lack of action made much of his about-face over cooling, preferring to accuse him of modish inconsistency than to see him as someone who had worked to improve his models, and as a result had changed his mind.

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Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir then gave India a flying start, rattling up 73 in barely nine overs before Sehwag changed his mind about a second run while Gambhir was in mid-pitch, leading to him being run-out.

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