Injuries mean Jones will lead a squad shorn of fellow Grand Slam heroes Gavin Henson, Martyn Williams, Mike Phillips, Lee Byrne, Dwayne Peel and Huw Bennett.

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"In fact I've gone out of my way time and again to point out that he's a perfectly affable fellow, and he's not stupid and he's not mean, " she says.

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Proponents of the minimum wage such as John Schmitt, a senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, like to argue that the mean effect of the minimum wage on jobs for low-skilled workers is close to zero.

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"They were close to getting a two-thirds majority, and that will mean a stable and secure government, " said James Chin, a Malaysian political science professor and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

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Yes, my fellow citizens, even as July Fourth is upon us, whoever would've thought that globalism would mean that the United States would outsource blue ribbons and gold medals?

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