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President Jiang in America

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America is Back to Normal

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How Wrong We've Been, from Madison to Roosevelt

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An Embarrassing Relic of Authoritarianism

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Bedazzled and Bewildered

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It's a Nine Ring Circus and You'll Never be Bored

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The Origin of the Continental Blow Out

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The Florida re-count, 2000

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Paralysis by Analysis

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The Day of Judgement

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Suffocating in an Ocean of Advertising

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A Supreme Diarist

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The World's Tumult and the Price of a Barrel of Oil

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There He Goes Again

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A Vague Beast Called Big Oil

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Just the Facts, Ma'am

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Trouble with the English Language

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Doing What Comes Naturally

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Father, God, Undefined

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Russia: The Victim of Democracy

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Mother Nature's Wild Fires

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Running Mates and Carpet Baggers

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From Exciting Horserace to Exhibition Trot

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From Party Convention to Coronation

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Ghostly Applause for a News Blackout

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Now Read On...

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Where Have all the Answers Gone?

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Pursuing a Will-o-the-wisp

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This Great Festival of Consumerism

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A Wonderful Work or a Rat Trap?

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Polishing up his Escutcheon

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Diet, Longevity and a Custard Pie

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A Giant Step for Womankind

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Historic Turning Points

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The China Bill and other Kickshaws

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The Outrageous David Merrick

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A Sordid Struggle

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Cycle of Boom and Bust

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The Year of the Census

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Never-failing, Ever-soaring, High-flying, Hi-techs

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The Most Significant Event of Recent Times

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A National Figure of Charm and Pity

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Buying Judges and Acquiring a Patron Saint

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A Brief Joust and Tumble with Sir Galahad

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Double diplomatic turmoil

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Fuelling Inflation

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Charles Schulz: A Great and Good Man

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Fickle Crushes and Volatile Markets

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Conventional Wisdom

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A Gentleman but not a Scholar

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What are Animals put on Earth For?

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The Death of the Old Media

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A Breathtaking Global Tour and a Resignation

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On Y2K Alert

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Park Avenue's colourful Christmas

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Old Sentiment and New Honesty

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Renewed Concern Over Secondhand Smoke

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The Last Demo Circus of the Year

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The Most American of All American Festivals

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Fortress America and Beloved Symbols of Britain

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Democracy in Action

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At the Centre of Things

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That Fateful Night in Macbeth

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Wishful Thinking Overload

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A Plea to the Senate

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Greed, Liquor, Jingoism and Bad Taste

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The Arrival of the Golf Hooligan

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The Ordeal of Hurricane Floyd

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Barkers at Pleasure Beach Side Shows

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No Exempt Categories

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Re-Writing History

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Grave Concerns

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Close, but No Cigar

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No Word from Mount Olympus

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Going to Pot or to Pluto

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Loneliness, Male Companionship and the Hunt

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Tyrants and Curses Live On

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The Brewing of Racial Storms

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Air Conditioning and Changes in Society

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The First Golden Paratrooper

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Playing for Time

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Freedom in America

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Testing Times in the Advancement of Science

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Laws Doomed from the Start

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Witticisms and Crazy One-Liners

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A Course in Manners

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Two Attitudes about China

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Columbine High School shootings, 1999

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No Schadenfreude on Nato's Birthday

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What's Your Exit Strategy?

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Whatever It Takes

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The Art and Curse of Television

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In the Hot Seat

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Doves, Hawks, Owls and the People

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Wholesale Flouting of the Law

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A Natural Gentleman

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Played for a Sucker

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The Pursuit of Self-Determination

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Our Long Holiday from History is Over

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It ain't Over, Till it's Over

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Dot Dot Dash Dash, Over and Out

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The Moral Pillar and the Moral Contortionist

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Striving for a More Perfect Union

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The US Senate trial of Bill Clinton, 1999

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Illuminating Events with Unpredictable Results

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America, 1998

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Decline in US personal savings

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Operation Desert Fox begins

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Clinton impeachment hearing

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Thanksgiving 1998

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Saddam's nuclear arsenal

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Some memorable letters from America

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Hurricane Mitch devastates Honduras and Nicaragua

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Democrat victory 1998 midterms

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Congressional midterms 1998

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John Glenn returns to Space

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Separated by Language

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Presidential infidelities impeachment

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The President's economic problems

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George Gershwin (1898-1937)

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George Wallace

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Impeachment for Clinton?

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Son of Black Monday

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US cruise missile strikes

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The President will address the nation

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The threat of Y2K

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Proposition 227, immigration and English

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The evolution of the grand jury

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Clinton's high aproval rating and Monica Lewinsky

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Texas heatwave and investigating Clinton

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Roy Rogers and cinema cowboys

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Bad behaviour in tennis and chivalry in golf

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Clinton in China, June 1998

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Japan's economy, Louise Woodward and homosexuality

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El Niño making Congress restless

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Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)

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Immigrants to America and assimilation

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The Microsoft monopoly actions

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India's first nuclear tests

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Medicine, inventions and the quick-fix

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California's progressive social legislation

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US anti-smoking legislation

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US financial regulation

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Consequences of the Disability Act

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Clinton sexual assault case thrown out

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Constitutional rights

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St Patrick's Day controversies

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US power and responsibility abroad

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Bill Gates and the Senate Judiciary Committee

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Jerome Murray, inventor (1912-1998)

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Investigating President Clinton

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The problems of military action in Iraq

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Clinton's contadictory polls

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The Monica Lewinsky scandal emerges

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Cuba after the fall of the USSR

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New York society

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Failing to predict the future

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Helping the homeless

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A New York Christmas story

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Financial crisis in Asia

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American tourists

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US national Holidays

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Sir Isaiah Berlin

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Judge Zobel and the Louise Woodward verdict

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The Wall Street crash

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The Kennedy Missile Tapes of 1962

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El Niño

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Clinton's veto

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Dr George Gallup (1901 - 1984)

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American stereotypes on film

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Rudolph Valentino

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Megan's Law

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Princess Diana of Wales (1961-1997)

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The 1997 United Parcel Service strike

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Bottled water

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Integration in San Francisco schools

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Clinton: Prosperity and popularity

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The end of civilisation

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James Stewart

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The Clinton re-election campaign

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The sovereignty of Hong Kong.

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Roswell UFO incident

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Watergate - 25 years on

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Health scares

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William Clayton (1880-1966)

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The Kelly Flinn case

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Spending the nation's money

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Sir Lionel Sackville-West (1827 - 1908)

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Franklin D Roosevelt monument

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Tiger Woods' ethnicity

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Nicotine addiction

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Jackie Robinson (1919 – 1972)

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The Augusta National Golf Club

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Al Gore's Chinese aeroplane deal

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Alan Greenspan

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Internet pornography

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Clinton's campaign money scandal

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Protecting the freedom of speech

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Astronaut John Glenn

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American Airlines pilots' strike

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OJ Simpson's damages

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OJ Simpson guilty

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Pope John Paul II (1920 – 2005)

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A history of Washington DC

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Presidential Inauguration

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The Speaker of the House

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The Boston Massacre