Later on when I was studying art theory, first in San Francisco and then at Yale, this sort of postcolonial postmodern condition of shattered identities and fractured selves, I didn't have to look very far.

WSJ: Kehinde Wiley

It is almost impossible for some of them to get health care because they've already had maybe a heart attack, maybe they've had an incident of cancer, maybe they've had some sort of other preexisting condition that makes insurers want to shy away from them.

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This seems such a catastrophic injury it's hard to imagine that there wasn't some sort of a pre-existing condition or - it just seems extraordinary that an animal could destroy itself in such a way if it was a healthy animal.

NPR: Heartbreak at the Preakness Stakes

The condition is that Spain should sort out its banks, draw up a credible budget to 2014 and, above all, impose the same discipline on its regions.

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One of the most intriguing ideas about theory of mind comes from another sort of lesion study, an examination of the puzzling condition known as autism.

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Barring the sort of policy error that would likely also trigger a double-dip recession, that condition should be met as well.

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So why look to Mr Chirac for a lead when most people now think that Lionel Jospin, their Socialist prime minister, is a sensible, honest sort of person, who can take much of the credit for France's currently rather perky condition?

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