• The chief is faced with murder, a menacing militia and a municipality loaded with soap-opera-like misbehavior.

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  • Our heroine concludes that there were no soap-opera-like antics that might soon have come to light to account for the man's worries.

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  • Worst yet, the highly publicized made-for-soap-opera divorce between McCourt and his wife Jamie brings uncertainty as to who even owns the team.

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  • The two most prominent, Governor Jim Gibbons and the junior senator, John Ensign, have recently had soap-opera entanglements with women other than their wives.

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  • The wildly entertaining 13-episode series about the soap-opera-like underbelly of politics in the U.S., features a performance by Kevin Spacey that critics are raving about.

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  • The tech world looks more like some catty soap-opera every day.

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  • Basketball legend "Magic" Johnson led a group that won an auction for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team Tuesday night, marking the final chapter in a soap-opera-style saga for the legendary franchise.

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  • He writes that Mr Blair may have spent the past week trying to dispel accusations of soap-opera politics - but he believes the prime minister has done much to create the current situation, and that he continues to profit from it.

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  • It gets even more soap-opera-ish.

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  • By last week, public interest in the trial had dwindled, but over the months the case did produce a number of startling allegations and soap opera-like revelations.

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  • The relationships offer a real-life soap opera with daily, if not hourly, twists for the public to feast on.

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  • But Escobar: The Boss of Evil is not your run-of-the-mill soap opera.

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  • The scandal has all the elements of an inside-the-Beltway soap opera.

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  • He was also the creator of long-running Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm.

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  • You might be tempted to say that the Big Ten is the Susan Lucci of presidential politics -- except that the soap opera actress, after years of being passed over, finally was awarded an Emmy.

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  • At once a soap opera and an anti-soap, the show was an assault on a TV-addled audience, with its heroine becoming as alarmed by the waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor as she was by the revelation that her grandfather was the notorious Fernwood flasher.

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  • "It's a way to watch your favorite soap opera today without waiting for a billion-dollar infrastructure buildout, " says Sheng.

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  • And Chancellor also found herself victim of many classic soap opera twists: conniving suitors, long-lost relatives, multiple marriages and memory lapses.

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  • Latest twist in the ongoing soap opera: Janus founder Thomas Bailey announced in mid-June he's stepping down as the fund group's leader.

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  • After the overly hyped A Suitable Boy, the lengthy four-family saga that some critics derided as a literary soap opera, Vikram Seth has come back strongly.

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  • Teen soap opera Hollyoaks produced Movin' On as well as a short-lived late night version of the series.

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  • Calls to the 101 non-emergency number included one reporting a character in an ITV soap opera as a murderer.

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  • But his poor performance in a rout at the hands of Alabama, some slow workouts, and a tabloid-ready hoax involving a fake girlfriend that became a national soap opera dropped his stock.

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  • And we've followed the soap opera that has been England from the highs of Munich and Beckham's free-kick to the more recent setbacks.

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  • In his winding-up speech to conference, Mr Hague was expected to dismiss New Labour as a soap opera: a fashion that had gone out of fashion.

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  • The big night was Friday night-I'd watch my parents play "Russian Bank, " a two-handed card game, while listening to One Man's Family, the radio soap opera.

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  • The department consulted female prisoners as to whether they would prefer to have Sky Sports News, like the men, or E4 - which is run by Channel 4 and known for reality shows like Made in Chelsea, soap opera Hollyoaks and US comedies like The Big Bang Theory.

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  • Nor, despite Mr Berlusconi's protestations, are the Italians innocent of this sort of behaviour: they recently entertained the rest of the world with the soap opera featuring attempts by the governor of the Bank of Italy to prevent foreigners from buying two mid-sized Italian banks.

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