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Some were really good and some were really bad; this was definitely the biggest mixed-bag day for me.
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After Utah's so-called "solution," Georgia's copycat anti-immigrant law, Florida's not-so-sunny proposals, and the mixed-bag of other laws introduced in twenty-two other states, I am very concerned that a statute of intolerance and callousness is being inscribed in the American psyche.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Arizona's SB1070: A Year After Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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After Utah's so-called "solution," Georgia's copycat anti-immigrant law, Florida's not-so-sunny proposals, and the mixed-bag of other laws introduced in twenty-two other states, I am very concerned that a statute of intolerance and callousness is being inscribed in the American psyche.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Arizona's SB1070: A Year After Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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It's all incoherent, from the huge, elaborate sets to the mixed-bag costumes—Mime is decked out like a music-hall comedian with a curly yellow wig; Wotan gets top hat, tuxedo and opera cape; and German tenor Torsten Kerl, as Siegfried, should have refused the tight, belted overalls that make him look like an overgrown, rotund schoolboy— surely contender for the most unflattering costume of the year.
Misjudged Siegfried Is No Laughing Matter Judy Fayard 2011
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State of Play is a much better investment of your time than the latest in TNT's mixed-bag of "Mystery Movie Night" features.
The Guide to Wednesday TV: A Middle Christmas, State of Play Returns, and More! 2011
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After Utah's so-called "solution," Georgia's copycat anti-immigrant law, Florida's not-so-sunny proposals, and the mixed-bag of other laws introduced in twenty-two other states, I am very concerned that a statute of intolerance and callousness is being inscribed in the American psyche.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: Arizona's SB1070: A Year After Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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It's the latest in a recent rash of mixed-bag rulings on the public use of crosses.
Utah Memorial Crosses Struck Down By Court Of Appeals In Denver 2010
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A mixed-bag June U.S. payrolls report left financial markets in a cautious mood and unable to put the heavy losses of previous days behind them.
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Right now I'm vainly attempting to cross-reference Hanna Rosin's fascinating mixed-bag article from the Atlantic that ran under the delightfully obnoxious headline "The End of Men: How Women are Taking Control of Everything," and mixing it with all the feverish stories about California's landmark political races, Carly and Meg and Pelosi, too, influenced by everyone's favorite winkin 'ditzball from hell, Sarah Palin.
Mark Morford: The "Rise of the Woman" and Other Bellwethers of Change 2010
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The museum shouldn't present a mixed-bag assemblage of the great and not-so-great.
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