Jurors saw police photos taken hours after the pop icon's death, showing disorganized closets, cardboard boxes lining the hallway and a general mess throughout.

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Niagara Falls, New York, is by general agreement a mess.

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So when it came time to catch up with an old friend, I decided to eschew the average city break and instead set out with some windows-down playlists, a hearty appetite and a general plan to mess around with Texas on an easy riding road trip through the Lone Star State.

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General Musharraf blamed them for the mess Pakistan was in before he took over.

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Whether General Hayden can clear up this mess remains to be seen.

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Attorney General Holder could have stopped this sorry mess earlier, just as his predecessor had tried to do.

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Every one of Bernanke's appearances before Congress has focused on the general economic outlook, the subprime mortgage mess or fiscal challenges for the United States--often a combination the three issues.

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From the start, General Musharraf seemed to realise that this was a mess.

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It could be that the general market place thinks the worst is behind regarding this mess.

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General Motors, the parent of both Opel and Buick, knew better than to mess with a good thing.

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It is too early to judge whether General Musharraf's new team is tough enough and principled enough to sort out Pakistan's banking mess.

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