Character witnesses are for when you're guilty and are looking for lenient sentencing.

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The potential that violent contingencies could have been offered for trade in the [Pentagon]-backed PAM completely eclipsed the true intent and merit of that research project. To include such contingencies again would undermine the effort to demonstrate the technology because we would never get to the merits.

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When you talk about racism what do you look for? You look for a pattern, ... The black justices that have come before him for confirmation, there were 27. He voted for 26 -- voted, yes, for 26. I see a pattern there, but the pattern is what we're all proud of.

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It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the region. It's a way of going directly to individuals in the region or outside who have knowledge or interest in the political and economic events in the area.

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