One afternoon the head wrangler Dave and I huddled under a couple of pine trees while hail beat down on our hats -- his more weather-beaten than mine -- and our horses' manes.

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The children went mad on our arrival and their football team happily beat us at a game of barefoot five-a-side on their stone-ridden playground.

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But its graduates beat Stanford for second place on our list, with an M.

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No to putting more teachers back in our classrooms, more cops back on the beat, more firefighters back to work.

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So we are working with Congress to find ways to keep our teachers in the classrooms, the police officers on the beat, and firefighters on call.

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In an attempt to beat the front, our plan was to get on the track as early as possible in the morning.

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"Our nation's financial regulators were supposed to be the cops on the beat, protecting hard-working Americans from unscrupulous financial actors, " he said.

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The recent pledge of Securities and Exchange Commission Chair nominee Mary Schapiro to be a "robust cop on the beat" is a good beginning to fix what has gone wrong in our financial markets.

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Australia beat us convincingly on Monday and there was a lot of talk about our decision to rest Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan, and the psychological impact the defeat would have on us for the rest of the tournament.

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