But he's been back at his regular level since sitting out a pair of games last month to get treatment on his ankles.

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He played about 14 minutes in each of the final two regular-season games after sitting out the previous four, and even if he does suit up, he sounded like he will be limited.

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And when (she) gives you a regular song, that's going to be as shocking as the meat dress, with her sitting there at the piano with no crazy hat on.

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Separately and together, he and his sometime lover and regular companion, Giancarlo Giammetti, made sure to greet and double-cheek kiss friends and supporters sitting at all the tables in their area, ranging from the young (the former reality-television star Olivia Palermo, the Brant brothers, the model Jessica Hart and her shipping-heir boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos) to the established (the interior designer Mica Ertegun, Barbara Walters, the Texan philanthropist Lynn Wyatt, the Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki).

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Based on a study of more than 220, 000 residents in New South Wales, researchers found that the longer you spend sitting down every day, the higher the risk of dying prematurely, even if you engage in regular daily exercise.

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The late sitting was needed in order to have the new law in place before the European Central Bank completed its regular board meeting on Thursday.

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