Though geography is offered as a sobering up after the intoxications of end-of-history ideology, it soon reveals itself as another brandy bottle, with intoxications of its own.

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His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.

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He bought a bottle of brandy en route to the office.

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That is when they will open the bottle of brandy.

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It is believed the cyclist, a white man in his 30s or 40s, went to the nearby shops and bought Mr Locke a bottle of brandy to apologise for knocking him off his bike near the shops in Rose Avenue, police said.

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