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They’d encountered coaches throughout the recruiting process who fawned over Stewart and his potential.

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It could be ‘financial fawning’ — here’s how to stop.

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These groups deserve shame, scorn and diplomatic rebuke — not fawning sympathy and United Nations red carpets.

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On Comedy Central, Stewart took a similar satirical approach, becoming a fawning and "patriotically obediant host" of an "all-new government approved Daily Show".

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Either way, the coyotes found a ready food source in the fawn of mule deer, which themselves have a controversial history on the island.

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