He won the Oscar in 1979 for his role in Kramer vs Kramer and again in 1988 for Rain Man.

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Go away howling winds and lashing rain and lord bring in the pot hole man.

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We rowed through the rain to a jetty, where an older woman waited beside a man in a suit wearing a wreath of roses on his head.

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India, who suffered a 66-run defeat to Pakistan on Saturday, made a single chage, with pace man Ashish Nehra replacing the injured Ajit Agarkar in a side reduced to 32 overs each after a rain-hit morning.

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His debut novel, The Gift of Rain - also about the Japanese occupation of Malaya - was longlisted for the Man Booker in 2007.

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