Barring some secret record-keeping that is someday revealed, we'll never know if Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby edged out Martin Scorsese's The Aviator by 10 votes or 1, 000.

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Sullivan has an exemplary record with the Secret Service, rising up through the ranks and receiving the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award in 2005 and 2010, the website said.

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Activities include the usual get-togethers and seminars, but the secret EO ingredient is off-the-record confessionals modeled along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups.

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Since the inaugural "First Listen, " a nod from the series has become such a plum that NPR Music keeps record-label submissions in a secret computer file, accessible only to employees who have the password.

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Historians are grateful for her published diaries, which record in remarkable detail what happened in supposedly secret cabinet meetings.

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Last year liberal eyebrows were raised when Gavin Newsom, the Democratic lieutenant-governor, journeyed to deeply Republican Texas, along with several Republicans, to uncover the secret of the Lone Star state's job-creation record.

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