On this score John Kerry failed, and the rest is history.

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However, their cause was not helped when Burrow, who passed a late fitness test on a back injury before the game, was laid out by a tackle from Watmough and was forced off and he failed to reappear for the rest of the game.

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And the worrying thing, for both Russians and the rest of the world, is that this attempt has largely failed.

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People who really want to pirate content will find a way, and the rest of us have to live with poorly crafted laws that failed to stop it.

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When a model failed to show, Walters asked to take her place on air, and the rest is television history.

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