And if he is gone, when he is gone, there's bound to be some reconsideration.

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Now he's not gone, but he had to step aside as the House majority leader when he was indicted in Texas on charges of violating state campaign finance laws.

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But the Swans and Hull took time to thrash a deal, and Duffy revealed he feared his chance to return to south Wales had gone when he joined the rest of the Tigers squad on the club's pre-season tour to Italy.

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At such times, there's no longer anything to reconcile him to his certitudes of days gone by, when he would raise his eyes to the horizon only to lay claim to it.

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Kadyrbayev told investigators that he'd gotten to know Tsarnaev's family and had repeatedly gone to his home when the family lived in Cambridge.

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The woman's father complained that police initially failed to react when he reported her disappearance, suggesting instead that she had gone off with someone.

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In 2004, he refused to recuse himself from a case involving Dick Cheney, even though he'd gone duck hunting with the vice president when the court was considering an appeal involving Cheney's energy task force.

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