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After the uprisings, Qatar’s emir abdicated, replaced by his younger, less experienced son.

He had been fond of apple pie all his life, and it certainly seemed like an innocent enough addiction.

We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister’s benediction.

It would appear to contradict earlier evidence suggesting a much more ancient origin for many key frog groups.

There are many versions of this paradox but they are essentially equivalent: one would get contradictions if one were free to change the past.

Maryland law dictates that car windows should be no more than 65% opaque.

The starkest difference between dictatorships and democracies is that democracies are ruled by laws, and dictatorships are ruled by dictators.

“This is a democracy. It’s not a dictatorship and it never will be.”

Bergquist was friendly and talkative, with an above-normal interest in Norway, where he had roots, and pronounced every Norwegian place name with careful diction.

They consulted dictionaries to look up correct information about word meanings and grammatical constructions.

You have probably often heard this business dictum: “Time is money!”