"Being basketball players and representing Boston, we definitely want to go out there and give the people something to cheer about, " guard Courtney Lee said.

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The public schools that are stuck only with players who come from a specific district are merely hopeful that they have enough students with the athletic ability and love of representing their school to stick around and do well, even when the best players are being picked off by private schools.

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Gowdy said he was committed to certain principles and was representing the voters who elected him, not being an obstructionist.

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The duties of Miss Alderney, in representing the island, include being part of the Alderney Week Calvacade and Jersey's Battle of Flowers.

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One Republican state senator, Drew Nixon, is currently representing his constituents from behind bars after being arrested for soliciting sex and for gun offences.

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Brad Seligman, the lawyer with the Impact Fund representing Dukes, says no new ground is being broken with this case and the Supreme Court should allow it to proceed.

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Christopher Jacobs, representing the couple, said there were being penalised because of an "irrational and unreasonable" refusal by the home secretary to allow exceptions to the rule in cases where marriages plainly were not forced marriages.

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Flanker Richard Parks, still smarting after being omitted from Wales' World Cup plans, starts on the bench, but Jon Bryant and Gareth Wyatt play after representing Wales against Romania.

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