On a small beach outside Hoi On, near the port of Danang, two backpackers play out a familiar scene.

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Schreier describes a scene familiar to many inheritors of projects: Although TimeGate was responsible for development, the company had no executive power.

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When Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes sang about pushing surfboards through turnstiles in Misfits, or Midnight Oil's Peter Garret howled "catch the bus to Bondi, sit on the beach and wonder", they were not only conjuring a scene familiar to their '80s pub rock audience but more importantly, they captured a uniquely sunlit Australian branch of angst.

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It's a scene so familiar in Switzerland, where the Alps are stitched with old and new infrastructure.

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The scene is familiar.

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It's a scene all too familiar to baseball fans: one of the game's greats accused of taking steroids.

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The fertile and fractious U.S. scene in the genre known as black metal can be understood through a familiar moment in rock history.

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The three weapons found at the scene of the shooting were legally purchased by his mother, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN.

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The first U.S. soldiers who arrived on the scene also told investigators they found no evidence the guards were fired upon, sources familiar with the investigation previously told CNN.

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