As Sharon was prepared for his sad journey home, Netanyahu was sitting with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in New York, trying desperately to salvage the peace talks and the Israel-US relationship.

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One resident said she was very sad to find the home closing.

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They will be glad he has returned home, but sad that this giant of the anti-apartheid struggle is finally retiring from public life.

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The Glasgow-born woman's mother Mattie McCulloch said she was very sad at not getting her home, but more worried about her plans to go on hunger strike.

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But the most irking thing imaginable is, as Meer points out, the purgatory that is the overflow server, where sad saps who no longer fit in their home servers are placed to adventure in a much more lonely space until a spot opens up and you can be whisked off to more crowded environs.

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Back home in New York, Smith received sad news early in the day about Curran, the longtime coaching great at Archbishop Molloy High School, who died Thursday at 82.

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Back home in New York, Smith received sad news early in the day about Jack Curran, the longtime coaching great at Archbishop Molloy High School, who died Thursday at 82.

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It was sad to think of this guy's wife at home wondering where he was -- having no idea that he was talking with CNN about being gay.

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If Thanksgiving left you sad you may want to consider leaving your credit cards at home before you hit the stores for Black Friday.

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But for some reason, when I first came home and felt confused, isolated, angry and sad, I forgot that there was a good chance that there were others out there, just like me, who felt exactly the same way.

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She described what her dad does at home, in clear detail, and it was heartbreakingly sad.

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The thought of his mother returning to their home village in search of her children makes Bodner both sad and proud.

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