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  • There's delicious irony in the thought of a prominent politician being caught in the convoluted web of the tax disaster that he and his like have foisted on the American people.

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  • So when the French and the British carved up the region, they basically carved large sections that most of the people in the region thought of as Syria and gave it to this little entity that had been Mount Lebanon.

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  • In the 1950s, fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico thought the whitetip was scarce because it was never seen in open waters.

    NPR: Study: Whitetip Shark Numbers Rapidly Dwindled

  • But because champions of American interests too often ignore rather than challenge their assertions, otherwise legally insupportable, politically charged policy declarations are coming to define the parameters of legal thought in the minds of America's citizens.

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  • The drawing of his coat-of-arms, held at the College of Arms in London, is thought to be the first depiction of the bird in Europe.

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  • In Serbia, the thought of Slobodan Milosevic with eight more years in power makes the eyebrows twitch.

    ECONOMIST: Weathering the storm

  • In recent years, Amazon has shown support for a more streamlined sales tax system on the federal level even as those of us in the tax world cringe at the thought of Congress trying to streamline anything tax-related.

    FORBES: Amazon Sees Silver Lining With Sales Tax Collections

  • In recent years there has been growing interest on both sides of the Atlantic and in Japan in the astonishing outburst of innovative thought in 18th-century Scotland.

    ECONOMIST: Sir Walter Scott

  • One is to step up the personal attacks in the hope of pushing voters into the position the campaign thought they were at in the first place, of wanting change.

    ECONOMIST: The rat-race

  • "We fully understand that one of the biggest worries facing homeowners in financial difficulty is the thought of losing their home, and this is especially true given the current economic climate, " RBS managing director of retail banking, Craig Donaldson, said in a statement.

    BBC: RBS offers to delay repossessions

  • Christianity influenced and shaped the moral foundation of the modern world even as it retrenched and conceded space to secular thought in the realm of politics.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: barzun

  • The general's position as loyal ally in the fight against global terror was further cemented this week with the arrest in Pakistan of Abu Zubaydah, thought to be the third-ranking member of the al-Qaeda group.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan

  • In the 1990s, the economists thought they were in the realm of precision economics: now they find themselves back in the realm of intuitive economics again.

    FORBES: Can Knowledge Be Collected? Lessons From The Health Sector

  • Contra Ross, the takeaway here is that the economic value of Facebook is a little less than people thought in the beginning of the week, but still an awful lot.

    FORBES: What the Facebook IPO Debacle Doesn't Tell Us

  • Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram has said the UK government's investment in the project will be recovered by the time fast jet work finishes in 2007 - even thought the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is pulling out earlier than planned.

    BBC: Five hundred jobs are being cut at the jet repair centre

  • When I heard the news of what happened in Newtown, I thought of the routine of sending a child off to school.

    FORBES: How To Talk To Children About What Happened In Newtown

  • Any observer will attest to the fact that I made those decisions on the basis of what I thought was in the best interests of the American citizen.

    NPR: Is McCain's Reputation at Issue?

  • Steven Levy from Wired Magazine and the author of a new book on Google called In The Plex said he thought the full embrace of this brave new world was 10 years away.

    BBC: Google Chromebook: Will it be a computing revolution?

  • Are we so hard-wired to identify gender, in others and in ourselves, that the thought of any ambiguity is a subject to be handled at a distance--or in the impersonal arena of public humiliation?

    FORBES: Views on News

  • Angela Sarkis is to lead an inquiry into victims' experience of the justice system in what is thought to be the first role of its kind.

    BBC: Northamptonshire victims' commissioner cost concern

  • In an episode in the history of thought that can still make the heart beat faster, he noticed that, night after night, they were waltzing back and forth near the big planet: first left, then right, never quite clearing its path, as though the planet were sticky and they wanted to stay near it.

    NEWYORKER: Moon Man

  • The reader in search of literary criticism, or even the origins of absurdist thought, will not find it in the three new biographies.

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  • If someone described to you an ancient civilization in which, every four years, at great expense, citizens convened to watch a carefully selected group perform a series of meticulously preset routines, and in which the watching was thought of not as a duty but as a hugely anticipated and unambiguously pleasurable experience, you would guess that, socially, this ritual was doing a lot of work.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • It also recommended that follow-up research takes place on children born using the new techniques, and that the donor should be thought of in the same way as a tissue donor, meaning they would have no rights over the child.

    FORBES: UK May Be Close To Approving Nuclear Transfer Technique for IVF

  • It makes the inclusion of a Mac in the equation even more seamless, and the thought of owning multiple iOS devices even more reasonable.

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  • Output in the construction industry grew by more than initially thought in the last three months of 2012.

    BBC: Cranes in London

  • The British bomb in Koblenz, now covered by just 16 inches of water, is thought to have been dropped in the night of Nov. 6, 1944, when Royal Air Force planes blanketed Koblenz with bombs and destroyed much of the inner city.

    WSJ: German City to Evacuate as 2-Ton Bomb Is Defused

  • Indeed, when Domestic Asset Protection Trusts were first introduced, probably a majority of the (relatively few) asset protection planners thought they were in the nature of a bad joke.

    FORBES: Zukerkorn -- Possible Bad News For Domestic Asset Protection Trusts In Conflict-Of-Laws Dispute

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