"We can have all kinds of fun doing things that don't cost anything, " Chris said.

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Indeed, we can all have the most wondrous fun in devising programs that would work, economically if not politically.

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So if LEGO will again be providing their fabulous co-op mode, we can have all sorts of crossover fun.

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Aloha and have fun all week as we tempt you into heading into the middle of the Pacific for island hopping ecstasy.

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While on summer break (why let the Germans have all the fun?) we got the news that a striking forbes Global cover in Asia last year was awarded first prize in an inaugural competition for specialized business press.

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As we tax advisors have charged blindly into another fun-filled filing season, little did we know that all the while the Sword of Damocles has been hanging above our beloved Internal Revenue Code.

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They helped us set up all the fun things that we're going to have to do after we get through talking.

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When the Obama team created We The People, they may not have thought too much about all the ridiculous and just-for-fun petitions that would reach the threshold and thus require a response (or maybe they did, and embraced it).

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You know, you've seen around the country that, you know, programs that are losing resources, and some of the schools are pulling out all their athletic programs and all the extracurriculars that make school fun, because we're -- you know, we don't have the resources to put in the schools, and the thing we want to make sure is that we don't lose teachers.

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