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CNN 2012-07-20

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CNN 2012-07-18

Thanks for joining us. Let's talk first about this controversy over when you left Bain Capital. I'll put one of the documents in question up on screen, their SEC filing stating that you were CEO at Bain Capital past 1999. When you say you left Bain t

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Judge Sonia Sotomayor appears headed for confirmation to the United States Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings this week to consider her nomination by President Obama. Judge Sotomay

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