Four Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted against reporting the treaty, and the three Republicans who supported it did so only after expressing serious concerns and caveats.

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The back story: A Title 9 employee who was also a serious runner found these shoes so comfortable that she lobbied her bosses to sell them.

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So now to Joe the Plumber, who undoubtedly was under serious consideration to get his own CBS sitcom in the slot after Two and a Half Men and The King of Queens.

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It does not give unsecured loans, because to do so would expose its owners - who are the taxpayers in eurozone countries - to serious risk of losses.

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And so the answer is we will eagerly work with those members of Congress who demonstrate how serious they are about this issue.

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Kabban, who helps run many of the practices, tries to keep the atmosphere serious but fun so that time on the field is a much-needed escape.

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Some took issue with Gaga for that tweet because she has always been such an outspoken advocate of her Little Monsters loving themselves for who they are and not giving in to the pressure to be thin that so often results in serious eating disorders.

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The new Woody Allen film stars Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff, an irate New Yorker who once had a beautiful wife and a serious reputation as a physicist. (Or so he tells us, talking straight to the camera.) Now he has a lousy apartment, no job unless you count chess tutoring and nobody to share his life except for a few cronies.

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Along the way he has said very clearly that he supports the efforts of the so-called Gang of Six and others who are addressing these obstacles, these challenges, in a very serious way and in a bipartisan way.

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So Paul James continues alongside Lions tight-head Adam Jones and recalled hooker Rees, who has recovered from a serious groin injury, in the Wales front row.

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That they need to know that they have to get serious, because so far they have been under the illusion that the Bush administration and the Republicans who have more of the same will be there indefinitely.

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