They photographed a Scottish tartan ribbon three times, once with a red filter, once with green, and once with blue.

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And though he has not held a ribbon-cutting ceremony recently, he plans to open three copies of successful Philadelphia restaurants in Atlantic City in May 2012.

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While the media and the professorate pilloried their reports, the group's charges caused the Council for Higher Education to form a blue ribbon committee last November comprised of seven political scientists - three from Israel and four from abroad -- to conduct a study of all of the political science departments in Israeli universities.

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