Having retained a large part of their squad, and added new faces in Adam Green, Richard Graham and John Wallace, Burman is targeting a higher placing this year.

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His own attention to detail and pain-staking approach to making his films has gained him plaudits from contemporaries like Pixar's John Lasseter and "Wallace and Gromit" animator Nick Park.

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CNN's Jim Acosta, John Helton, Gabriella Schwarz and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report.

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Their path was blocked by then Alabama Governor George Wallace and his state troopers until President John F Kennedy intervened.

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Downing Street said Mr Straw was aware of the "strength of feeling in certain quarters", and had consulted Jim Wallace, and the Scottish Secretary, John Reid, before taking his decision.

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John McCain or Gov. Sarah Palin to George Wallace.

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They were joined by SNP leader John Swinney, Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace and Scottish Conservative Leader David McLetchie.

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Munster's pack, which includes the likes of Paul O'Connell, Jerry Flannery, John Hayes, Denis Leamy, Donncha O'Callaghan and David Wallace, is regarded as one of the most attritional in Europe.

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And when Vice President John Nance Garner challenged Roosevelt for his third term in 1940, Garner was off the ticket and Henry Wallace was named to the ticket.

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