"If nothing else is possible, you have to vote in a democracy, " Professor Carl Devos at Ghent University told Reuters news agency.

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With such obstacles in the way, nothing grand is likely to be possible until next year.

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Leon Wieseltier, as best I can gather, has said nothing about Bahrain, though it is possible that he addressed the topic in an off the record lecture he gave in December.

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Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

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Even if GE had had nothing to do with the unfolding nuclear calamity in Japan, the ad is in the worst possible taste.

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The high-level discussions going on in and around the White House are characterized as a debate between lawyers, who are trained to publicly disclose as little as possible, and political operatives, who want to prove their insistence there is nothing incriminating or embarrassing in the notes.

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