Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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