But there was nothing much to cheer about growing up in the Petrero Hill Housing Project in San Francisco, nothing much but the gym.

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Sacking Mr Primakov might cheer him up, but there is no obvious alternative acceptable to both president and Duma, parliament's lower house, which must approve the nomination.

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But not everyone is lining up to cheer the Philharmonic's visit.

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These shifts all push government-bond yields up, but they are a cause for cheer rather than gloom.

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The screenplay, by Seth Bass and Jonathan Tolins, based on a novel by David Gerrold, offers heartwarming, tearjerking, stand-up-and-cheer moments that only a golem could resist, but Meyjes never conjures a world, inner or outer, so the result is just a string of effective scenes, an illustrated script rather than an experience.

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