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Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.
Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.
Some of their predecessors — Renoir, van Gogh, and Gauguin — once lived and worked just north of place du Tertre in rue Cortot, rue de l’Abreuvoir, and rue St-Rustique.
The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz also praises the film, saying "it will strike a chord with audiences for the same reason that its predecessors did: It is earnest, well-meaning, and delightfully free of irony.
It's more conservative than its predecessors (especially on race and crime), but most of its major decisions (on abortion, gay rights, Internet free speech) have been moderate or liberal.