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  • Mr Srba will have to explain how he came by the wads of cash found by the police and how he renovated two farms outside Prague on his paltry state salary.

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  • Floodgate said he had received documents from the court which he believed showed he was divorced by the time he flew to Vegas.

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  • He fasted twice a week and, each morning after dawn prayers, studied the Koran, which he had memorized by the time he finished sixth grade.

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  • By the time he was acquired by the Yankees from the Kansas City Athletics on December 11, 1959, Maris was a fine ball player who was on the verge of blossoming into a perennial all-star and a prolific power hitter defined by the common standards of the day.

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  • It's King's first season playing in the Premier League but he is not daunted by the company he will be keeping in the semi-finals.

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  • Peter's tomb, where he prayed accompanied by the patriarchs of Catholic Oriental Churches, he proceeded through the Basilica, followed by senior clergy, back toward the square.

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  • Mohammed Hayef, a former opposition MP, wrote on Twitter afterwards that the emir had told them that he would accept a ruling by the Constitutional Court on the amendments he made by decree.

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  • Cramer was fascinated as much by the machinery that produced power and hero worship as he was by the people at their center.

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  • Meanwhile, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson told the BBC's The Politics Show that he denied any suggestion by the union that he had orchestrated the Royal Mail's handling of the dispute.

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  • When one of his customers wouldn't pick up the phone, he dropped by the guy's warehouse.

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  • Karl McCartney, Conservative MP for Lincoln, said he was disappointed by the redundancies but added he hoped the move would "ensure the long-term viability of the site".

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  • By contrast, he is astounded by the kind of liberalism he sees in his adopted state of California and his native New York, where a mayor who jets down to his mansion in Bermuda on weekends tells working- and middle-class New Yorkers that they really shouldn't be driving to work or living in single-family homes.

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  • Ohman said he stood by the cartoon and listed many reasons he believes Perry's policies deserve scrutiny.

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