And what for so many years had seemed to point to the arbitrariness of life was soon evidence of the opposite -- my broken neck the almost inevitable consequence not of a divine plan, but of a reckless driver, a truck loaded with four tons of tiles, a backseat with no headrest, and a dangerous road.

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Liverpool are breathing down the neck of Tottenham who are currently in the fourth and final Champions League spot one point ahead and with one game in hand.

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Brown, who speaks constantly about this bill in his neck-and-neck race for re-election against consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, said the whole point of passing the law was to demonstrate that members of Congress weren't held to a different standard.

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According to the Times of India, Home Minister L.K. Advani declared that the arrests point to Islamabad's "neck-deep involvement" in the eight-day hijacking, in which three jailed Muslim militants were exchanged for the plane's 154 hostages.

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At one point I stopped for a swig of water, and when I slapped at the whining mosquitoes that danced on my neck and hands, I slipped and slid over some tumbled pieces of rock, grabbed at branches to stop my fall, and landed just in front of a bas-relief of warriors, maidens and fish alive in stone.

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