Ms Bruni worked for several years as a super-model, earning accolades from British clothes designer John Galliano who described her in the film as being "like a silent movie actress with her body language - the dress is her script".

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So why have I continued to use my Super Stocks-based model?

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New to the Cyber-shot line, the TX30 model features a Magnifying Glass Plus mode that zooms in for a fascinating super-size, magnification (up to 15x) of close objects such as fish, plants, insects and more.

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The new Cyber-shot TF1 model has a 16.1 MP Super HAD CCD sensor with a 4x optical Sony zoom lens.

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When super model Linda Evangelista, 46, and billionaire Francois Henri-Pinault, 49, entered the small family courtroom Monday afternoon for the third day of the much-hyped hearings to establish child support payments, they were all smiles.

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Earlier this week, French journalist Anne Sinclair, wife of troubled former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, made a withering attack on Mr Sarkozy and his wife, former super model Carla Bruni.

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My test model was running on the T-Mobile network and even indicated that it was using super-fast LTE, which T-Mobile is still building out, in some areas.

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Cendant's Super 8 budget entry knows that it, too, needs local know-how in China and figures its franchising model is the way to get it.

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