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They unite to survive, they constantly bicker, they share clothes and food and chores, they dance and sing and dress up just to give themselves reasons to smile.

An Orange County jury deadlocked Monday on a charge of second-degree murder against a 74-year-old Superior Court judge who shot and killed his wife after hours of bickering and hard drinking.

Jana said they “bickered a bit, but I gave in. I saw his point. He came here as an immigrant. The American dream is a house.”

The outgoing government here was weakened and distracted by vicious internal bickering.

The film became a flashpoint for partisan bickering when critics of the Obama administration claimed that the film’s planned October release was timed to boost his reelection campaign — it was later moved to December.