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The book is ostensibly “authored” by McCartney even though it is an oral history that has been edited by Ted Widmer, an estimable historian and a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton.

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"While we've been away, all the team have been working away regenerating our beloved festival and poring over your extensive feedback - and finding so many great suggestions," the former member of Genesis added.

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Likewise, the president’s tariffs on Brazil over its own Supreme Court ruling against his buddy, former president Jair Bolsonaro, might strike some of them as a bit unseemly.

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Wigan half-back Harry Smith has been recalled after sitting out the first Test, with Canberra's former Warriors forward Morgan Smithies also brought in.

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The former holiday resort was visited by the UN special rapporteur for extreme poverty as part of a fact-finding mission in 2018.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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