Then he's told by a Hollywood producer who wants to buy the screenplay that it will never be made unless he changes the gender of the dying character.

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Until that changes - and it may never - he will never earn the cult hero status that Tim had.

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Dogma will always appear to be archaic, as it never makes allowances for individual cases, or rapid changes in social attitudes.

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But it has never been more important to underscore this central reality behind the changes you will be announcing Wednesday.

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So while I think Gabe is right that some sort of grand bargain in which Russia exchanges support for Syria for guarantees about American behavior in the post-Soviet space would be win-win, it will simply never happen unless the domestic political situation in the US changes beyond all recognition.

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Voting for changes may never be the same on Facebook, but it sure seems as if the company is taking your privacy more seriously than perhaps it has in the past.

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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.

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When the neighborhood changes so do property values, and the problem in areas hit hard with foreclosures is that it may never change back.

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