Boies and Olson were on opposite sides for one of the court's most historic cases, when Boies represented Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and Olson represented Republican George W. Bush in a dispute over the Florida vote count in 2000.

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But despite the supposed anxiety on both sides, especially the Republican one, about America's long-term solvency, there was no mention of any future efforts to trim America's deficit, which was 8.9% of GDP in the last fiscal year.

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And on Wednesday night it's likely to break the hearts of fans following one of the sides in the season's most important football game.

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However, standing in one of the country's 30 solar plants -- overlooked by sand dunes on all sides, Dawoud tells CNN that he hopes that solar technology may eventually offer a viable alternative energy source to power the UAE's huge desalination needs.

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One of the war's worst aspects is that many of these locally recruited fighters, on both sides, are children.

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As a young man, he was a page in the U.S. Capitol, and worked alongside and observed a master of mutual respect and bipartisan cooperation -- so much so that the man's colleagues on both sides of the aisle rallied behind him to be president of the United States in one of the nation's darkest, most divisive political hours: Gerald Ford.

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