Never mind that she spends the first act being leered at by the villain mostly to make Tony Stark oh-so-jealous, never mind that she spends literally the entire second half of the film as a damsel-in-distress.

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Never mind that I cannot find so much as one Oklahoma case where a court attempted to actually apply Sharia law in place of existing state and federal codes and cases.

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"This time last year I didn't even expect to be part of the Ospreys squad, never mind achieve everything that I have so far this season, " he said.

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Never mind that the most forceful attempt to introduce this so far, in Georgia in 2002, ended in disaster.

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Compliment him on his planning that weekend trip (never mind that it is the second time he has done so in years) and he is more likely to plan more.

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Never mind zapping movies and sitcoms over the Web (that is so Nineties)--Semel is betting on "social media, " letting some of Yahoo's 200 million registered customers create their own content and share it with whomever they choose, linking up in rich multimedia cliques to swap pithy commentary and photos, songs, games, home videos and interactive fare that users themselves will invent.

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The untutored bastard son of a French-Haitian merchant, he saw first-hand that the nascent United States, deficient in so many ways, was rich in wilderness, hosting creatures that even the most erudite mind could never conjure.

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Young parents today have probably never seen illnesses such as whooping cough, so for them it's "out of sight, out of mind, " Shu said.

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