John XXIII got away with it because he said it was in deference to his parish saint, John the Baptist, Melloni said.

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She felt even more dismayed and said not a thing when, with the crops in, John arranged to sell away his dozen prime field hands.

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It might seem unimaginable that Bush Administration officials, such as Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and State Department Legal Advisor John Bellinger, could get away with dissembling beforea Senate committee led by a Democrat who wants to be considered a serious contender for the presidency.

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Poignantly, it also joins him on a September 2007 weekend away in Borth, Ceredigion, with close friends John Hefin and his wife Elin, when he expresses his optimism about the future, just weeks before his death.

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"This is not a business where you can get away with bullying a counter-party, " says John Hattenberger, Gazprom's point man in the U.S., from his one-man office in downtown Houston, set up in preparation for building more permanent Gazprom digs there.

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"If Fender gets away with this, it will be catastrophic, " says John Suhr , founder of Suhr Guitars in Lake Elsinore, Calif.

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"You feel like when he gets the puck, no one's going to take it away from him, " said John Tavares, whom the Islanders took with the top pick in the 2009 draft.

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But John says he would rather put up with a two-hour commute than give his house away.

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