Also, they could check to make sure that all of the lines of the play were said correctly, because you want to see and hear the play you are paying for, rather than some variation created by incorrectly remembered dialogue.

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He cited three reasons for what will be a nearly year-long effort to convert 25 million lines of code to play on the new Mac OS. His customers demanded it, he wants Apple users as his customers and he likes OS X.

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They have story lines that play up the foibles of all people, whether they happen to be gay, straight, or transgender.

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The United Nations must play a leading role in this effort, filling in the fault lines of the new global era.

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There's a Noguchi coffee table and a collection of chairs with modern lines designed by architects, including Frank Gehry's Power Play chair, which looks like it's made out of wood shavings.

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Today's primary school children tend to learn songs and lines for a play, as well as useful tools like times tables, says Mark Brown, head teacher of St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Axminster, Devon, but rarely whole poems, as their grandparents would have done.

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"Three years ago - before we did a straight swap - I had actually agreed to play Margaret Thatcher, " he said, securing a bigger laugh than any of MacFarlane's lines.

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