Purely as an old-fashioned biography of a somewhat sainted individual, 42 is absolutely entertaining from start-to-finish.

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Faced with a similar problem, one of Mr Schwarzenegger's Republican predecessors, the now-sainted Ronald Reagan, raised taxes in his first year.

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The sainted David and Lucille Packard must be rolling in their graves.

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The sainted David and Lucile Packard must be rolling in their graves.

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For himself, as my sainted mother used to say, he was smart.

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Under Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, who took over from the sainted Jack Welch in 2001, the place continues to be extraordinarily well managed.

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That might sound straight out of President Barack Obama "Buffett Tax" playbook -- which conservatives routinely attack as "class warfare" -- but in fact it is the sainted Reagan speaking in 1985.

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And yet that is a strange choice of word unless you believe that the very act of talking to an enemy is tantamount to appeasement, a view that would have astonished the sainted Reagan during his long chats with Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.

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As for the Penn State debacle, it's hard to deny that the worship of college football blinded the media to the notion that the sainted Joe Paterno might do anything wrong -- such as looking the other way after allegations that his assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was sexually abusing children.

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