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Like Willy Mays, once-great reporter hung around too long.
Richard Valeriani: April 11, 2011, News Update Richard Valeriani 2011
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Like Willy Mays, once-great reporter hung around too long.
Richard Valeriani: April 11, 2011, News Update Richard Valeriani 2011
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Unfortunately that desirable result has come at the price of devastating a once-great American institution: the Republican Party.
Nancy L. Cohen: Why the GOP Circus Has Mattered Nancy L. Cohen 2011
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Today's last Americanism is "land of the free and home of the brave", which is how we say "a once-great nation now so imprisoned by its own cowardice, it thinks 'obscured camel toe' is a national security threat".
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Years of war and decades of mistrust do not pass easily into history, but they must if once-great and diverse cities like my hometown of Sarajevo are once again to flourish.
Diana Jenkins: It's Time for Justice to Take New Forms in the Balkans Diana Jenkins 2011
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House, a once-great show that has devolved into a ludicrous and unconvincing soap opera, may be the season's biggest disappointment, and Lie is kind of a time-slot throwaway.
To watch or to DVR? Let TV critic Robert Bianco help out 2009
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So -- a once-great newspaper falls into disrepute and millions of voters grow less informed on important matters, thanks to the rightward push of parent company News Corporation.
Anne Butterfield: The Republican Clown Car Circus Anne Butterfield 2012
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So -- a once-great newspaper falls into disrepute and millions of voters grow less informed on important matters, thanks to the rightward push of parent company News Corporation.
Anne Butterfield: The Republican Clown Car Circus Anne Butterfield 2012
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So -- a once-great newspaper falls into disrepute and millions of voters grow less informed on important matters, thanks to the rightward push of parent company News Corporation.
Anne Butterfield: The Republican Clown Car Circus Anne Butterfield 2012
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Years of war and decades of mistrust do not pass easily into history, but they must if once-great and diverse cities like my hometown of Sarajevo are once again to flourish.
Diana Jenkins: It's Time for Justice to Take New Forms in the Balkans Diana Jenkins 2011
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