The figures also include one nine-year-old listed for possessing a firearm or imitation firearm.

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It is not known if it was a real or imitation firearm.

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The school is using them to teach phonics and play cards or memory and imitation games with children aged from five to 10.

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Or surimi, that imitation crab food product found in the freezer section of your local supermarket and in California rolls.

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But we get an even better and funnier dose of Paul Giamatti, who plays an alternative Harvey, and who is framed, or sometimes drawn, in fond imitation of a comic book the implication being that even the cruddiest lives can, in sympathetic hands, acquire shape and grace.

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We all know that this month, former well respect GE CEO Jack Welch did his best Alex Jones or Glenn Beck (remember him?) imitation to tell Americans that Obama was cooking the books on the all-important job numbers.

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For many consumers, that imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery, or winning any real friends.

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Vindication has also come in the form of imitation, as one leading Japanese corporation after another sold all or part of their main offices.

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