Players like 29-year-old captain Philipp Lahm and 28-year-old midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger had been at the heart of Germany's revival on the world stage without ever winning club soccer's highest honor.

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More recently Islamist parties have found themselves on the right side of the religious revival sweeping the Arab world.

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An ambitious revival that fuses the famous Bob Fosse choreography with the daring physical world of circus is in previews at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.

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He nearly lost his job after defeat by England in 2006 but their revival culminated in the 15-6 win over England in the World Cup final nine days ago.

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Indeed, Beaujolais became so unfashionable for a while, that it's now enjoying a kind of contrarian geek revival as if Beaujolais were the Hush Puppies of the wine world.

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And yet investors, perhaps too optimistically, have seized on the SIA's predictions and the few signs of a revival in the market to push up the prices of semiconductor stocks around the world.

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