However, the court was told the whole story was false as the girl did not exist.

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As the problem was being fixed, Jobs told the audience a funny story of a prank that his boyhood pal and co-founder, Steve Wozniak, would play when Jobs was still in high school.

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In all of this, there were the ingredients of a good news story but it was badly told, and as a consequence the deal aimed at restoring power-sharing after November elections in Northern Ireland went on hold.

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As his son (also Mario) drove us over winding roads through nestled mountainside towns, the former economist with the Nicaraguan government told us a story that was to culminate as we reached our destination.

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Mr. Liu, the city comptroller, launched his campaign by saying that he worked in a city sweat shop as a child, a story that backfired in the 2009 race when his mother told a newspaper that it was untrue.

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