He had formed this force when he became sheriff, appointed by the old friend, Governor Jim Folsom, with whom he had grown up in the tiny town of Elba, on the Pea River in Coffee County.

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Here's what I knew - David had been living in this orphanage since he was two weeks old.

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The 76-year-old had hinted earlier this month that he might not stand if withdrawing his candidacy could help centrist and centre-right parties come together to form a "moderate" bloc.

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Gatland admits he has had no direct contact this year with the 28-year-old double Grand Slam-winner.

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Mr. HADJII NURI (Cleric): (Through Translator) Two months ago a kid who was two years old, as a result of drinking this unhealthy water, he had diarrhea and vomiting.

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He had us now, the old man: all of us were straining to hear what this soft-voiced dapper gentleman might tell us about the professor we celebrated and advertised and never really knew.

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By the time he exhibited this melancholy fragment in 1916, Epstein had suffered the death of his 23-year-old friend Gaudier-Brzeska, killed by German forces in France.

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Meanwhile, this angry, somewhat campy man described how he had worked without pay for 15 years to maintain the old movie projectors.

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I'm going to become a Marine, ' and it shocked his parents -- they had no assurance that he was going to do that, it was just something this 11-year-old boy said, but he stuck with it.

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