chris vermeulen of australia won the french grand prix on sunday , beating italy 's marco melandri .

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the conference on disarmament -lrb- cd -rrb- was `` quite close '' to reaching consensus on establishing an ad hoc committee on the prohibition of production of fissile material for nuclear purposes , said the chairman of the conference here thursday .

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austria 's marlies schild won a world cup slalom race in italy on sunday .

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in the land of the free and the home of the brave , noam chomsky is a dissident .

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the dissident voice in the land of the free