As their clients jetted off to ski chalets and beachfront properties, lawyers left to do the paperwork felt like Cinderella.

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"I feel like Cinderella, " Madonna said amid the roar of the crowd.

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"This is almost like Cinderella, " he says.

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But the twist here is that when you analyze the game tapes, Butler starts to look less like Cinderella and more like a gang of evil stepsisters assuming those stepsisters had spent some time in the gym working out with the heavy bag.

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Only 9 schools have done that, and none of them smell like a Cinderella.

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Picking a 16 seed plays to your Cinderella fantasies, yes, but it also borders on insanity like betting on Cinderella not only to win the Prince's heart but also to seize the mixed martial-arts championship.

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Cinderella teams like Florida Gulf Coast University and LaSalle have danced their way onto the main stage.

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She bade everyone good night and went, Cinderella-like, into the night.

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Yes, it would be fun to see Ms. Mueller and Ms. Murphy play Cinderella and the Witch on Broadway but not like this.

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Perhaps it's because men are squeamish, or don't like to talk about their health or visit the doctor, but prostate cancer has long been dubbed "the Cinderella cancer".

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