In Wisconsin's win over Indiana on Saturday, for example, all of Badgers guard Traevon Jackson's play calls were parroted by Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell.

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Elsewhere, though, the need to preserve social cohesion, parroted by European politicians from left and right, has become a self-defeating excuse to avoid reform.

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Why do both sides accept the framing of this question, so often parroted: In these tough economic times, should we cut more social services or raise taxes?

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The fervor with which these non-Muslim conservative activists parroted the Brotherhood line suggested that more than simple solidarity with their friend, Suhail Khan, is at work in Norquist's Islamist influence operation.

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