Chickens scratch around under huts that sit on stilts to guard against flooding when the river bursts its banks.

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But the era of debt and the far-out marketing gimmicks does not sit well with some of the league's old guard.

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"I don't know how you can sit outside for a basketball game for that long, " Miami guard Durand Scott said.

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On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.

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