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The former minister said that the Dyson prototype ultimately "did not get through testing" and "whenever confronted with brute facts about safety or otherwise, I would always accept them."

The more I talked money — and the more I reaped — the better I felt about all of us confronting a pandemic.

“That wasn’t a basketball player confronting me. That was a parent,” Smith said.

He’s no stranger to being held back from confronting referees either.

“That was LeBron James coming up to me, unexpectedly I might add, to confront me about making sure I mind what I say about his son,” Smith said.