One man who is not surprised by the apparent lack of enthusiasm by the authorities here to get to the bottom of this scam is John Bear, the San Francisco based publisher of a guide to higher education.

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John is not the only Bear out there.

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Guys who are long never want to see a bear case get built for their holdings, but John Ayling, an analyst at Morningstar, has a painful two star rating on the stock.

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Regardless, Papa John's is telling you that people who order its pizza will now bear the cost of its employees' health insurance.

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The rest of the lineup is an eclectic mix of then and now featuring the new folksy heroes The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men, indie favorites Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective and a soul superjam featuring Jim James with John Oates and the Preservation Jazz Hall Band.

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John Lewis, which also owns Waitrose, a posh grocery chain, seems to bear this out.

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For Scotland, the can't-bear-to-watch element was the 3-0 defeat against John Toshack's Wales.

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The death, at the weekend, of John DeLorean, the controversial American tycoon, will do nothing to detract from the buzz about the cars that bear his name.

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His list of black successes includes John Street, the former mayor of Philadelphia, and Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, whose speeches sometimes bear an uncanny resemblance to Mr Obama's.

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