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Al Gore, the Democrat presidential candidate defeated by George W. Bush in 2000, gave a speech on the U.S. economy Wednesday in Washington, D.C. in which he cannot be accused of sniping at Bush. The attack was more that of a primitive shotgun dispersing p
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- King Canute of England a thousand years ago placed his throne on the seashore and told the incoming sea tide to turn back. It didn't listen to him.
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