So if we want to panic, there is something real to panic about.

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In the years before, we were living in debt-driven times, so there's no real benchmark on how or why something was successful.

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Ultimately, we will need politicians who are willing to take huge risks in tackling some of the underlying problems with government -- or a scandal so severe that it creates real political pressure for incumbents to do something -- if we are to strengthen our processes and reduce the risks of the kinds of stories we saw this past week.

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Her main idea so far seems to be that plays can describe the everyday in something approximating the real time it takes for ordinary citizens to make up their minds about anything.

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The fact that so many gamers do know something about Da Vinci from the games, which incorporated real history and historical figures into its fiction, is a plus for Starz moving forward if they chose to go the Spartacus route with the second season and unleash interactive entertainment.

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Jeff Buckley's fans are haunted by something he sang, something prophetic, almost as if he wrote his own epitaph in the song, "So Real".

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Specialists say out of 30 or so areas in the visual cortex, only one shows any grid-like relationship to something in the real world.

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So a messenger strolls in from the summer sunshine, finds a 20-something reporter on her first real job and hits her with an eviction notice.

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