If a player tries to take a short cut it won't be anything that he hasn't seen in the past.

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Threats from judges and jail sentences that are invariably cut short because of overcrowding haven't helped Lohan, Heller said.

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With a big stimulus plan and plenty of social programmes on the agenda, the last thing they need is to have their post-election honeymoon cut short by the perception that they can't even keep their own house or, more accurately, their own Senate in order.

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