He is wearing his wedding band and a class ring.

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In 1991, the year that Glen Hansard started The Frames, he also played Outspan, the baby-faced Dublin guitar player in "The Commitments, " a feature that has gained a global following. (It's one of my favorite films ever.) What makes "The Commitments" so widely loved is, among other pleasures, its use of a working-class rock band's rise and fall as an armature for individual drama.

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Fixated to the extent that I wrote a term paper for my music class on the band.

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The potential outcome of the dispute, the inability for investors to band together to participate in class action lawsuits, could be a disaster for small investors across the country.

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Products and services were designed and sold to segments in the large band of people we called a middle class market.

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Investors under these circumstances could have joined a class action where they would band together with thousands of other investors to pool their resources to bring one big case to bring Schwab to justice.

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At the core of the experience is the band, a group of my friends who are all world-class, Juilliard-trained musicians in their 20s.

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Shrugging aside his disappointment, Contador showed his class by winning both the Tour of Spain and Giro d'Italia, joining a select band of riders to win all three major stage races.

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