After nagging one of his fellow patrons to borrow a diamond-encrusted snuff box, the owner succumbed, but not before scribbling in its lid the Greek letters phi and rho, or "Fie, Rowe!"

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The hosts were relentless in their pursuit of goals and it looked as though Aberdeen were on their way to another heavy defeat when Steven Whittaker was brought down in the box by Zander Diamond.

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"I saw a diamond in the rough, " Box says.

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The company's had a knack for thinking outside the rectangular box and coming up with cleverly built handsets -- the Sensation series and Touch Diamond come to mind -- but it seems to have cranked the focus up another notch this year.

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The UK justice system apparently didn't buy Wiese's explanation that the money came from diamond deals in South Africa in the 80s and 90s, and had been kept in a safety deposit box in the Ritz hotel because of foreign exchange restrictions in his homeland.

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