He knew music, classical to serial, and the history of mathematics, and a hundred other things.

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Buffeted by the building boom, the increasingly generic glass boxes-- the sort that dominate certain sweeps of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan--came to seem ubiquitous, even inescapable, guaranteeing their place in history and serial rejection by factions all the way from the Supreme Soviet to the postmodernists.

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He had a serial killer in his family history which is the reason for this scan.

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Xstrata, whose history is one of serial dealmaking, would doubtless have liked to hang on to the mine.

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All too often in history countries have been allowed to become serial defaulters without suffering that much in the way of penalty.

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The truth is that Germany is a rehabilitated serial offender itself, having defaulted eight times in its relatively short history, according to Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff.

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He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.

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