"There was a 16-year-old boy who didn't fit into the working world of Switzerland, " he says.

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As for the vice-presidential debate, Mr Cheney may fit the stereotype of good ol' boy capitalism, but Mr Edwards can also be caricatured as the slick trial lawyer hardly a popular stereotype with business.

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Oberon said she was spoiling him, that she had ruined him and that he had no hope of ever becoming a functional changeling, and in a fit of enthusiastic discipline he scolded the boy and ordered him to pick up some toys he had left scattered in the hall, and threatened to feed him to a bear if he did not.

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That might have frustrated a boy, but a 6-footer will find it a natural fit, especially when compared with the tiny controllers of the Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube.

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The fit and finish of the TL just doesn't live up to the big boy breeches of its high-end ilk.

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If JFK won't be budged, Mr. Kessler thinks Lincoln could fit in well between the arch of triumph and a fountain adorned by Neptune, Tritons, and a boy grasping a cornucopia.

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