Plus he will be praised by alumni, players, and recruits for turning down the pros in favor of the Nittany Lions.

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Mr Ali's bid was praised by city homelessness charity Streetwork, which will also be running its own Christmas Day meals at its crisis centre in Holyrood.

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Derek Briggs, a palaeontologist at Yale University and an expert in exceptionally preserved fossils, praised the work, saying that the important step was elucidating the mechanism by which such fossils could be preserved.

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When the court boldly thrust itself into the 20th century by allowing those newfangled audiotapes of Friday's session to be released the same day, it was praised as a step forward.

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Storrie, who praised the "terrific job" done by manager Paul Hart under difficult circumstances, also confirmed he would be staying at Fratton Park despite failing with a takeover bid of his own, with Alexandre Gaydamak preferring to finally sell to Al Fahim at the end of August.

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