The great conductor himself appeared on screen, at one point shaking hands with Mickey Mouse.

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Then instead of immediately asking for time, Reyes flashed a lot of movement with his arm and hand, reducing contact with the base to just the fingers at one point, as he tried to readjust himself and move his foot to the base.

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At bottom, Lord Duveen was vain, greedy and mightily pleased with himself, the sort of man one is rather glad to have met only in the pages of a book.

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At one point, Mr Obama expected to meet his Chinese opposite number one-on-one but instead found himself with the leaders of South Africa, Brazil and India as well.

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But Davydenko, who also won the Malaysian Open at the beginning of October, has put himself in a great position to take one of the three other available places with his fourth title of the season.

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