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Finlay (The Prodigal Troll) provides enough well-researched minutiae of daily life in colonial America to make this a fine historical novel, while offering a magic-tinged view of the happenings at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill that impressively restores suspense and uncertainty to long-settled events.
March 2nd, 2009 2009
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But some Palestinians are allowing themselves to be provoked when Netanyahu raises a long-settled issue as something new that is quite likely to be an internal Israeli maneuver.
Reza Aslan: The Middle East Peace Process: Opposing Views Reza Aslan 2010
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"The Academy loves true stories, but they lean toward long-settled history."
Danny Groner: Oscar Nominated Films: Does the Truth Matter? Danny Groner 2011
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"The Academy loves true stories, but they lean toward long-settled history."
Danny Groner: Oscar Nominated Films: Does the Truth Matter? Danny Groner 2011
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But some Palestinians are allowing themselves to be provoked when Netanyahu raises a long-settled issue as something new that is quite likely to be an internal Israeli maneuver.
Reza Aslan: The Middle East Peace Process: Opposing Views Reza Aslan 2010
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"The Academy loves true stories, but they lean toward long-settled history."
Danny Groner: Oscar Nominated Films: Does the Truth Matter? Danny Groner 2011
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CONAN: We should probably go with that, yeah, but you do get, you know, Paris and Paris, that's a long-settled argument, I assume?
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Impressively, the Cookes had lived in Chester Castle since 1773; no doubt, like many of Jamaica's long-settled English, they had been impervious to, and contemptuous of, the slave culture in which they found themselves.
My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica Ian Thomson 2010
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West joins a growing chorus of elite opinion makers and policy analysts who are grounding calls for immigration reform on U.S. global competitiveness — and not just more secure borders and workplaces or legalization for long-settled, contributing illegal immigrants.
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Unfortunately, America is getting the opposite of certainty - even in places where issues related to climate and clean energy were thought long-settled.
Van Jones: No on California Prop 23: Reversing Course on Climate Policy Is the Real Job Killer 2010
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