Who would doubt that modern languages would be better taught by slumming around Europe for four years than by a few hours a week of instruction in an otherwise unilingual environment?

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The economic slowdown impacts even the absurdly wealthy, and if given truth serum I doubt that you would find too many owners who care more about winning trophies than their own personal fortune.

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Even those who doubt the wisdom of fighting a war about it would not argue that Mr Hussein has yet done what was asked of him.

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At the same time, he must convince those who doubt his liberalising instincts that he will press ahead, as he promised this week he would, with deregulation.

ECONOMIST: President Prodi

Many thousands of publicly funded part-time hours have gone into the campaign, and I doubt that even Ms. Williams would suggest that of the 400 or so delegates who attended February's "Toward a Mine-Free Southern Africa" conference in Maputo, Mozambique, there were many who paid their own airfares and hotel bills.

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