That is why Tavares, who had 28 goals and a team-best 47 points while playing in all 48 games, and the rest of his teammates were given such a fond farewell from the fans Saturday night.
Since former President Jimmy Carter, each president has delivered his farewell address from that room, using the office of the presidency to say goodbye to the American public.
"I leave sad because of the pain of our people but with my head held high, " a teary-eyed Bachelet said in a brief farewell address from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile's capital.
It was not to be but, Instead of following the example of Andre Agassi, who made emotional farewell speeches after bowing out from Wimbledon and the U.S. Open last year, Clijsters was practical as ever.
Mr. Petrakis collected his hunting rifle from home and wrote farewell notes over four pages of an old calendar.
Later, senior Vatican officials and a detachment of the Swiss Guards, who by tradition protect the pope, will gather to bid him farewell as his helicopter takes off from Vatican City bound for the summer papal residence, Castel Gandolfo.
Speaking from the podium after his farewell triumph, Armstrong paid tribute to his closest rivals and his team.
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It was a much more sober affair when Cape Farewell's Youth Expedition wound its way from Iceland, around the southern tip of Greenland, across the Davis Strait and down the coast of Canada earlier this month.
His departure from Yemen last week followed the passage of a law giving him immunity from prosecution, and a televised "farewell speech".
England suffered no further scares and took the applause from the Wembley crowd as they said farewell with a lap on honour in their last appearance on home turf before the big kick-off in South Africa.
The farewell may bring closure to a tumultuous and stunning fall from grace for DSK, that reverberated on the morale of the 2500-strong staff at the IMF.
As Endeavour bid farewell to Kennedy Space Center, it elicited strong emotions from people -- such as CNN iReporter Randy Lathrop of Cocoa, Florida -- who have lived with the shuttle program nearby for decades.
In the Lords (from 3pm) peers bid a less than fond farewell to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill - the measure which had Conservative and Lib Dem ministers voting in opposing lobbies for the first time, last week.
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) The actors who play Pam, Jim, Dwight and other beloved characters from the popular NBC show "The Office" bade farewell on Saturday to the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Scranton that served as the TV setting for their fictional paper company.
The movie follows a pair of male Beijing Opera performers, Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi), from their school days, in the nineteen-twenties and early thirties, to their farewell performance together, in 1977.
Art exhibitions inspired by all the Cape Farewell visits so far are planned for next year, including one at the National History Museum, London from May until August 2006.
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Christian Dieckmann, a taxi driver from Freiburg, Germany, had taken a last-minute flight to Rome for Benedict XVI's farewell.
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Before you say farewell to Sin City, pick up a piece of Vegas history to bring home -- say, an ashtray from the legendary Sands Hotel -- from downtown's Main Street Antiques.
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