The odd couple even play on the same doubles team in cutthroat company ping-pong tournaments.

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But it's unfair to expect him to play 40-odd games for us.

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Besides the Buck-Pierre play, there were other odd moments.

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With the unemployment rate at its lowest level since December 2008 and the economy adding more jobs than any major analyst estimated in February, it may strike some as odd that the White House chose to play down the number.

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Halloween in the United States is an increasingly odd holiday, no longer child's play, but on this evening I was thinking about another holiday, this one official, that is coming up this week: Veterans Day.

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Marc Andreessen has an odd blog post out today, denying that he or Jeff Jordan will play a Chair or CEO role with Yahoo!

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It's odd, but not surprising, since regulators and lawyers lurk, waiting to play gotcha.

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"We were doing things in Glasgow like odd gigs in pubs that we'd book and just invite friends along too and play some songs to see how they were going, " says Hardy.

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