• Was that a product of a sort of wrenching debate within the White House with a lot of disagreement, or was there sort of a fair amount of consensus that this was the right thing to do, given all of the factors?

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  • But, but it's sort of, it's a sort of no-win situation isn't it, because there are, there are editorials from time to time in the papers saying the younger Royals should jolly well earn their own living and not be on the Civil List, they should go out and get a job and like the rest of us have to.

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  • He said -- he talked about this issue of the bonuses, that they were looking at it from a legal term, but that Treasury wasn't looking at it from a moral or ethical sort of -- sort of through a moral or ethical -- didn't get the exact quote -- from a moral and ethical aspect.

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  • Provoleta, a round slab of fried cheese, makes for a savory sort of pancake, and a salad of papaya, pineapple, and mango, tossed with toasted coconut flakes and creamy goat-milk caramel, is a ticket to the tropics.

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  • But in a strange sort of way a lot of it was like looking though a keyhole at a very small piece of the war.

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