The Australian has been in stunning form this season - finishing third in the Tour of Flanders - and insists he is in the best shape he has ever been.

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Mr Sarkozy threatened to legislate to enforce these, but he has since accepted a form of self-regulation in the shape of a code of good governance for companies.

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He has secured a more business-friendly finance minister, in the shape of Hans Eichel.

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The Swede, who has joined hometown club Helsingborg, often came off the bench to change the shape of a game - as he did so spectacularly in the Champions League final over Arsenal in May.

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Watson was steeped in music as a child, from the time his mother held him in her arms at the Mount Paton Church and he listened to the harmony and shape-note singing of such songs as "The Lone Pilgrim" and "There is a Fountain, " according to a 1998 article in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by Dan Miller.

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When Rover, the German-owned remnant of Britain's car industry, was in trouble this summer, he told it to shape up, not look to him for a rescue.

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