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And the best way to make sure that Twenty20 - is this Dravid's bete noire?
BBC: Rahul Dravid's recipe for reforming cricket
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Japan also makes an appearance in L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, the latest work from French film-maker Barbet Schroeder.
BBC: Venice gala starts awards season
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Not to mention that the crusader against climate change is taking petrodollars from an empire built on oil, the bete noire of environmentalists.
CNN: Why Al Gore's Al Jazeera deal doesn't seem right
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Other strong contenders include US director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, and French film-maker Barbet Schroeder's thriller L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, or The Beast in the Shadows.
BBC: Pitt and Clooney at Venice debut
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Stieglitz probably had no idea of its origin or tribal meaning, but it is now known to have been made by the Bete or We people living in what is now the Ivory Coast.
WSJ: Americans' African Inspiration | African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Michael FitzGerald
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The people at the British Potato Council, for whom the low-carb diet is something of a bete noir, are also somewhat put out to discover that a key Atkins foodstuff is jostling for the limelight.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Eggs v potatoes: The Atkins diet stand-off
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On Cuba, he has lifted restrictions on travel and remittances for Cuban-Americans, but his handshake with Washington's bete noire, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, prompted critics to say the president had to avoid turning engagement into pandering.
BBC: Obama's first 100 days: Foreign policy
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If they feel let down by the future Scottish resident of Downing Street, the Northern Ireland parties may conclude there is nothing to be lost by working closely together with Gordon Brown's bete noir, Mr Salmond.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | When neighbours become good friends?