But in a surprise move, party insiders selected Islip Town Clerk Joan Johnson to carry the GOP banner.

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There is a gigantic 'Welcome to Moscow' banner at the airport, there are Champions League adverts all over town and Red Square has been transformed into a Uefa Champions Festival, with all manner of activities planned leading up to the game.

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In fact, the first of the major northern towns to fall to Iraqi Kurdish fighters under the banner of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a new face in this town called Khanaqin, about 80 miles north of Baghdad.

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Indeed, keeping Internet governance out of the hands of national governments under the banner of the ITU has proven to be the most bi-partisan issue to hit this town in years, with Republicans and Democrats, the Administration and the FCC in complete agreement on the dangers of a revised ITR that said anything about the Internet.

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