Promoters, leagues, sponsors, advertisers and a miscellany of other interested parties dangle incentives.

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And a miscellany of other tricky issues are yet to be finalised.

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The town of Fallujah, which American marines failed to wrest back in bitter fighting last April, has become a no-go area: from it, a miscellany of insurgents, ranging from secular local nationalists to foreign jihadis, mount increasingly horrific suicide bombings and kidnap raids on other cities, including Baghdad.

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We were driving around western Tlajomulco, a sunbaked miscellany of ranches, factories, subdivisions, and rough hills.

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Out of this miscellany emerges a larger story about the evolution of a British national identity, independent of the papacy, with its own history and imperial ambitions.

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The document is divided into five sections - a record of published fiction, money earned by writing, published miscellany (including movies), the earnings of wife Zelda and a year-by-year account of his life.

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Meanwhile, Ben Schott's Miscellany series, which started out as a way of enlivening the author's Christmas cards, became a trivia phenomenon to rival the Guinness Book Of Records.

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