For estate-planning reasons, neither my wife nor I could be the initial tai-pan, so we chose our trusted financial advisor, Dave.

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Nor could I find out about the more outlandish, rock 'n' roll-style riders for bizarre dressing room requirements that the maestros and divas put into their contracts.

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Until a few days ago, the vast majority of British voters had never heard of Mali (let alone the Sahel) nor could they - or indeed I - have placed it on a map.

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Only the ones who judged me bad for reasons I could never understand, neither the reasons nor the meaning of bad.

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Finally, the day I saw Hugo, I found a shop that had located a clock that could be put on special order, but it will be neither beautiful nor, I fear, reliable in the end.

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