This is a pity, because that may prove to be what Britain's voters want.

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Which is a pity because there were a lot of positive aspects about the building and what's inside it.

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What a pity, thinks the student, that the professor, risen from a fatherless childhood in New York's Hell's Kitchen to become a seemingly permanent star of the Senate, should be intent on retiring in 2000.

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