"Obviously this is not the situation we wanted and we are truly sad to be ending such an historic and established festival, " it said.

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Caron Butler is one of the better perimeter players in the game, and it was a shame to see him suffer a season-ending knee injury last year, but in an extremely thin market, such a history will not prevent him from signing at least a semi-lucrative contract.

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If in the past, both American and Israeli policy-makers interested in engaging Damascus have made ending Syria's alliance with Iran a central goal of their proposed engagement, Kerry dismissed such an aim as unrealistic.

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