<span>while they create the illusion of listening they mostly do what they think is required to be re-elected.
Note the current republicans who are silent on tweets etc. Teh don't want to get involved so their action/speech can be used against them in future elections</span>
Tactical victory for the British,
<span>Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov originated the study of classical conditioning while studying the salivation of dogs and finding that they would begin salivating even when they were not supposed to. Pavlov's classic experiment consisted of his paring of the ticking sound of a metronome with the presentation of food to see if the dogs would eventually salivate to just the sound of the ticking metronome.
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The one who camped out for the tickets.
Suspense
You can see this by the the setting of the excerpt.