They read and report far outside the bounds of a beat journalist and bring their findings together in novel ways.

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Then again, they may read the McKinsey report and decide not to.

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Mainstream analysts may not want to research such an uncertain event when they can get more eyeballs to read a report on Microsoft ( MSFT), for instance.

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And we will ask after that what happened in their investigation, because we must continue to see what happened to our report, because we make a report and we need to know if they read it and what their answer for it.

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Senators read quotes from that report in which the military guards said they were told to "soften up" the prisoners before their interrogations.

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Therefore, I was interested to read a recent report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that they sent along to get my thoughts.

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