He is at least 5 inches taller than Federer, but when he reached the net after losing the match, he plunged his head into Federer's shoulder, like a little brother conquered on the playground.

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"You can see it for yourself, " Weaver moaned to a reporter, staring Friday at all the vacant lots, overrun with weeds that are taller than he is, at all the abandoned shells of former homes, many of them still marked with the spray-painted "X" that became the grim symbol of a great American city nearly wiped off the map.

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Mr. Samson is sorry that he is slightly less than an inch taller than Napoleon was.

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Is he shorter than us or taller than us?

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He's already taller than his parents, and his mother says that when he is in a rage he has the power of 10 men.

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But at the halfway stage of his first season back in top-flight racing in nine years, Neil Hodgson admits it is proving a much taller order than he expected.

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He's been very good previously at reinventing himself but is this a taller order than most?

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