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Like criminal or civil juries, citizen assemblies rely on the capacity of ordinary people to deliberate seriously and build bonds of trust, in ways that are often mistakenly assumed to be beyond them.

Yet once he assumed the presidency, JFK continued “to keep an unmistakably Catholic spiritual routine.”

When it comes to serial killers it is generally assumed that they are psychopaths, but I wasn’t convinced that applied to Tony.

“It was assumed that there was an understanding that she is a non-political person, hence she will not be a threat,” she told the AFP news agency.

When a turtle’s path crossed over itself multiple times in the same spot, the scientists assumed there was a seagrass meadow at that location.