His life is slowly transformed into a duel with the illusions emanating from the set, whose superficial images seem to hypnotise him, even to imprison him in a virtual reality.
Mr Kabila will not meet him, and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe will not even talk to him.
"It's been an absolute honour and a privilege to play with him and even more so to call him a mate, " said McGrath.
My parents and all of us kids began to chase him but never even came close to catching him.
Osvaldo Franklin, who gave Rebello and her twin their first communions, on Saturday night told The Associated Press their mother, Nella, couldn't even speak to him earlier in the day.
But instead of fessing up that he had obeyed only the letter of the law, he insisted yesterday that, gee whiz, the earlier tax dodge didn't even occur to him -- an excuse that came off as legalistic and implausible.
If they chose to, they could even limit him to one start in each round of the playoffs if they got to the World Series, which a Washington team has not won since 1924, its only victory in the Fall Classic 88 years ago.
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Sonny just will not shut his mouth about his love for the teachings of the Bible, to the point that his beleaguered wife (Farrah Fawcett, doing a far better job than she did the last time she was on Letterman) won't even talk to him anymore.
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They did not even bring him to the FICA max even though there was apparently no real independent business there.
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Mr. Kurzweil's frank efforts to outwit death have earned him an exaggerated reputation for solemnity, even caused some to portray him as a humorless obsessive.
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In the interview that led to his punishment, Barry admonished Villa for not trying hard enough to keep him - even though O'Neill insisted they want him to stay.
Sollecito condemns his treatment by Perugia police who, he says, would not give him food or access to a lawyer during the questioning, even though it was clear to him that they were treating him as a suspect and not just a person informed of the facts of the case.
Recently it was revealed that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak had his name woven into the pinstripes of his immaculate suits, a sartorial touch that has probably endeared him even less to the people who have stripped him of power and put him on trial.
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They even require him to appear in a few TV ads at no extra pay.
Mr Maslyukov, who is something of a free thinker, even wants him to be president.
The fact is few people, even those closest to him, knew much about Picower.
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For a few years she even persuaded him to stop eating meat, an experiment he has since resolutely abandoned.
Mourinho even went to watch him play, disguised in scarf, cap and glasses.
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"I even tried to keep him interested by having him catch so he'd be involved in every play, " Coleman said.
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Instead, Musharraf may find himself saddled with a parliament that could challenge his decade-long rule or even try to impeach him.
Has either of them even asked him to account for his claims?
Even more worrying to him is the fact that the Oregon initiative, if widely copied, may take the steam out of present efforts to aid dying patients.
Those Lib Dems who feel marginalised in the coalition, and who regard Mr Clegg as a drag on their poll ratings, might even try to remove him.
We were even able to take him on our Doggymoon (we ditched a traditional honeymoon) where he ran on the beach with his sister and played the entire time.
While he can be justifiably proud of becoming United's most enduring manager, of even greater interest to him this weekend will be celebrating it with the right result at Chelsea.
But the alternative is even less palatable to him.
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