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" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "

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" Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. "

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" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

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" There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. "

" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "

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" Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter. "

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