He rendered his father as a prophet, and gave Christ the face of an old classmate.

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"This could mean buying a virtual gift for a potential love interest, buying a power-up to defeat your old classmate in a friendly competition, or buying a nice accessory for your virtual home, " Smith said.

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Packard had also hooked up with an old classmate, Bill Hewlett, and during their free hours the two men would knock around in the garage trying to come up with product ideas for their own company.

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When it comes to marketing, Ogbogu, an old Maryland classmate of Plank's, has also helped the company do a lot with very little.

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The portfolio was not, as claimed, monitored by a team of more than 20 analysts, but by the sole shareholder himself and his chief financial officer, an old college classmate.

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The 58-year-old billionaire, along with high-school classmate Bill Gates, wrote the programming language that led to the founding of Microsoft.

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But her classmate, 21-year-old Mirae, says she will take a look.

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The gun safety issue has intensified after a 6-year-old girl was recently shot and killed by a classmate in Michigan.

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The nine-year-old who has trouble sounding out simple words and his classmate who is reading A Tale of Two Cities for fun sit in the same classroom day after miserable day, the one so frustrated by tasks he cannot do and the other so bored that both are near tears.

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