California Rep. Mike Thompson told CNN on Tuesday that a ban on high-capacity magazines could garner Republican support, but a full-scale assault weapon ban would be hard to get passed in the GOP-controlled House.

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Obama could demand that agencies provide data for background checks that are supposed to accompany gun sales, ensuring that information included in the checks is as "comprehensive and complete as possible, " Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson of California told CNN.

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Britain's Mike Golding and Brian Thompson sailing Ecover were leading by 14 miles at 1300 GMT on Wednesday.

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Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tommy Thompson, all favor a path to citizenship for at least some illegal immigrants.

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And if it does, this will vindicate Packers brass such as GM Ted Thompson and Coach Mike McCarthy for sticking to their guns and insisting upon a change in direction at the start of the 2009 season in order to give young Rodgers a chance to perform and grow into the QB he has become.

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Lewsey is the ninth member of England's 2003 World Cup-winning team to retire from national duty, although only Phil Vickery remains actively involved with Jonny Wilkinson injured and Mike Tindall, Ben Cohen, Steve Thompson and Ben Kay out of favour.

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And if he fails, Mr Thompson is still waiting to pounce, as are Senator John McCain and Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and impeccably pro-life Baptist minister who mixes appealingly corny one-liners with worryingly populist views on economics.

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It shuttles breezily between the present day, in which an L.A. detective named Mike Church (Branagh) is trying to discover the identity of an attractive amnesiac (Emma Thompson), and the late forties, in which a European composer and conductor (also Branagh) may or may not have murdered his pianist wife (also Thompson).

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