And after decades of having to put up with politicians in studios and at outside broadcasts all across the land, why isn't he?

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Why isn't he doing any of that this year?

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Mr. Salbu spoke with The Wall Street Journal about maintaining a focus on technology while joining the top tier of business schools, why he isn't rushing to offer an online degree and why he wouldn't recommend students follow his lead in announcing his sexual orientation during job interviews.

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He didn't perform and that's why he isn't here any more.

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He was going to explain why there isn't much, he feels, he can do about it.

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Mr. Koch had said he was delighted that the bridge would take his name, but exactly why he loved it isn't clear.

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If Romney really is the electoral dead duck that his Republican rivals claim he is, why isn't Obama beating him by double digits?

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Mr. Ramsey admits he isn't sure why those workers left.

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Ernie Pyle didn't see the war that way, which is why he is read a half century later, and Hemingway isn't.

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