The name she had been born with, Kazuko, was changed to Kiharu, which means happy spring.

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But at this point, people in the Rockies and Midwest would have been happy if it felt like spring when the season officially began -- on Wednesday -- as winter won't go quietly.

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The family of a motorcyclist killed in a crash on Spring Bank Holiday Monday have paid tribute to a "happy person who was fun loving and full of life".

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Mr Karzai said he was "very happy" to hear that Afghan forces would take over responsibility for providing security by this spring.

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He wasn't happy that the deal didn't happen, so he assembled a proxy board in the spring to unseat the Web portal's current directors and hash out a deal with Microsoft.

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