Then there was Vanity Fair, which occupies its own niche in the great American circus.

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If capitalism means lots of private ownership and fair, transparent markets, then its future remains bright.

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If the pork is there, he argues, then his duty is to ensure that South Carolina gets its fair share.

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But the decision to "pause" the bill and then to re-write it to appease its critics, owed a fair bit to in house critics in both coalition parties in the Commons, to a stream of detailed comment and criticism from Stephen Dorrell's Health Select Committee, and still more to the promise of ambush with overwhelming force in the House of Lords.

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Fair enough, but then Baptist Health went further, telling one of its gynecological surgeons that she was no longer welcome to work there because her husband, a neurosurgeon, had invested in one of the surgical hospitals.

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