In fact, Fosca is so much of a harpy and so conniving that it's hard to believe her hellish persistence could ever turn Giorgio into her admiring lover.

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Also not so hard to believe is that some of these people actually are able to become billionaires and to help others become wealthy as well.

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It is hard to believe that they did so entirely spontaneously.

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David Catania, a District council member, says it is hard to believe that a businessman would invest so much in a shadow campaign and not tell the beneficiary.

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What I find hard to believe is not that Ciavarella would say something so ridiculous, but that his defense attorney actually thought that saying something this stupid would actually help the case.

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