Sheen showed up for work and did his job, which makes diagnosing him an addict in a strict clinical sense an iffy proposition.

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So there is a bit of a mystery that surrounds Youssef Nada, which makes him such an interesting figure to get very great access to, which we did.

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But he is also a visionary, which makes him something of an oddity.

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That makes him an outsider which surely puts him at a disadvantage with the FCC and the DOJ.

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His handicap is still his past, which many Italians feel makes him an unsuitable candidate for leadership.

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More important, the economy is strong and Lula remains likely to win re-election in 2006, which makes him more attractive as a friend than as an enemy.

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He is considered centre-left and an opponent of conglomerate power, which makes him a more natural bedfellow of the DUP.

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Taking a short position in puts, which means the investor agrees to have stock dumped on him at an inopportune time, makes some people downright queasy.

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"Tim Bradley, in almost every respect is a B-plus fighter but he has A-plus determination that makes him special, " said Max Kellerman, a CNN contributor and an analyst for HBO, which like CNN is owned by Time Warner.

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