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  • It always reduces to a "them v us" game, with Hillary representing the elite-wing and Obama troops bringingup the rear for the poor and disadvantaged.

    In Praise of Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground 2008

  • The 20-year-old Swiss will start from 16th, with Bourdais bringingup the rear for the first time - an ignominy he managed to avoid in hisdebut year last season.

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

  • But what keeps bringingup the cynic in me particularly strongly is the fact thatsome aspects of the man’s history as now presentedmake him sound likea fairly in-control scammer who also has (or has been developingover time) a medium-strength dose of something likenarcissistic personality disorder, with maybe a dash of one of the otherso-called “cluster B”/“dramatic-erratic” disorders, like borderline and histrionic personality disorders.

    ”Crockefeller”: the story just keeps unfolding | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2008

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