However, the expected intermediate-term correction has been taking on an increasingly more serious appearance.

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Now that "red carpet" events aren't defined as exclusively awards shows and movie premieres, celebrities are donning serious eye candy for virtually every public appearance.

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Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa ruled that Ms Mtetwa should remain in custody until her next court appearance on 3 April because she faced a serious charge.

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He had signaled his intention to deny the charges at an earlier appearance in a magistrates court in March where a more serious assault charge against him was dropped.

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Celtic's chances appeared to take a further blow after 40 minutes, when Kennedy - not long back from serious injury - was stretchered off, with Steven Pressley making his first appearance of the season following back surgery.

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The deputy chief of defence intelligence, Martin Howard, sent him a minute on July 18th, four days before his committee appearance, warning him that two Defence Intelligence Staff members had expressed, in writing, serious concern that the dossier had exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq.

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While I'm delighted that Mary Beard is comfortable in her body, to conclude from that that battles around female objectification and sexual commodification have been won betrays a serious ignorance of the ongoing issues of ageist and sexist discrimination faced by women in relation to their appearance.

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