Loeb took over at the front when he and Solberg dead-heated on the eighth stage and then stretched his lead by winning the penultimate stage of the day.

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The look is not unlike that of the amoeba like figures projected over the stage during a 1960s Grateful Dead light show.

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" Greece said one of its citizens was among the dead, and that his captors "at no stage either communicated or expressed demands for the release of the hostages.

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Characters on stage include Baron Samedi, Voodoo divinity of the dead, and the zombie, a living-dead slave.

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And usually when they send a bill back to a committee at this stage in a Congress it means that bill is dead.

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His many stage plays include The Real Thing, Arcadia and the Hamlet-inspired Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

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