Mr. ALMOND: I think Halloween is this fabulous ritual in which you kind of get what I call freak amnesty.

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That's what Scientology would call a kind of noisy investigation.

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That kind of talk was common during what Iraqis call the "dark years" when the sectarian warfare was at its worst and al Qaeda and other extremists controlled swaths of the country.

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People do not care what kind of technology they are using when they are making a phone call or downloading a ringtone, says Julian Horn-Smith, Vodafone's chief operating officer.

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They would love a bit of what you might call proper inflation - not the kind we have had recently, in which living standards have been squeezed by jumps in energy or food prices that cuts consumers' spending power, but the sort we haven't seen for years, pay rises.

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In addition to posting the kind of commentary you usually see in this space, I write and perform what I call songitorials, about everything from pop politics to scary culture.

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This kind of call is odd, as there is rarely a need to tell clients to "hold" what you have never told them to buy.

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