"It's a major loss to what we're trying to do, " said coach Mike Woodson, adding that he felt bad personally for Stoudemire, who altered a number of things, including switching to a vegan diet, to try to stay healthy the rest of the year.

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"You can't do a background check if a guy doesn't have a gun to buy, " said Mike Fotia, manager at Duke's Sport Shop in New Castle, Pa.

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He said that the Ulster Unionist Party has a lot to do and "it didn't take Mike Nesbitt to come in and tell us that".

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Mike Blair and Ronan O'Gara do look like a possible Test half-back partnership though.

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In the world of comedy, if you are absolutely determined to stand on a stage for five minutes with a mike in your hand, someone in London will let you do it, if only once.

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Mr. MIKE HUCKABEE (Republican, Former Arkansas Governor): We do have a responsibility to protect life from the point of conception.

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"It's a major loss for what we're trying to do, " said coach Mike Woodson, adding that he hoped Stoudemire would rehab quickly enough to be back for the team's playoff march.

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In a recent article on MarketWatch, Mike Piper of Oblivious Investor fame shared with us four excellent reasons not to do a rollover.

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This is something, by the way -- going back to my involvement -- two or three days after this happened, we had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.

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