The government says that it will announce its transitional proposals in a white paper, but they will include the establishment of an independent commission to nominate and vet new life peers.

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We see the emotional-zeitgeist logic in the special interest that Sam has taken in the physical rehabilitation of an Army veteran and amputee, authentically played by real-life Army vet and amputee Gregory D.

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As Foulkrod shifts from one vet to another, some of them maimed for life, there are moving bits of testimony, but we may balk at the abrupt editing, which leaves anecdotes and emotions hanging.

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Euros Jones, defending, said O'Leary loved horses, they were her life and that of her family and her own vet considered she was fit to keep them.

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In the 1950s young Chouinard, an army vet and former private dick for Howard Hughes, tired of suburban life in Burbank, Calif. and literally took to the hills.

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Efron, best known for playing Troy in the High School Musical movies, played an Iraq war vet looking for a woman whose photo he believed helped save his life.

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