Mr. Malouf, 53 years old, is no stranger to Petersham Nurseries, having cooked master classes there in the past when launching his acclaimed cooking-cum-travel books on Middle Eastern cuisine, which he co-authored with his former wife, Lucy Malouf.

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But it seems like most of rock-and-roll and even hip-hop have built on the Kerouac-cum-James Dean-via-Nirvana mythos of the troubled teen struggling against the world.

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You can play mini-golf at the bar-cum-games hall H Street Country Club, grab a pastrami on rye and a Guinness at the kosher deli-cum-Irish pub Star and Shamrock, or take in a show at the burlesque-cum-punk rock venue Red Palace.

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When construction faltered and funds went missing in 2009, the president-cum-prime-minister took on a supervising role to assure that this renovation only took twice as long as the one back in 1853, when the theater suffered from the second of two fires (and then a 1941 firebombing, during World War II).

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Christiansen is what passes for the chief marketing officer at SPIN-Farming, a website-cum-online community that distributes methods for farming on plots of less than an acre and making money doing it.

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Other grants have been given to St Mary's in Cleobury Mortimer, St Michael's in Stanton Long, St Milburga in Stoke St Milborough, St Peter's in Pipe cum Lyde and St Mary the Virgin in Middleton on the Hill.

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