The city has agreed to turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into a four-day party to mark Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in the nearby Meadowlands.

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For a significant stretch of Sunday's game, Brady played his position better than any Super Bowl quarterback before him.

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Prime Minister David Cameron last year instructed officials to examine plans for the proposed barrage, which would stretch about 18km (11 miles) between the Vale of Glamorgan and Weston-super-Mare.

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Well-funded super PACs took on some ground game efforts for the Romney campaign, and polls conducted in the home stretch found voters in the most hotly contested battlegrounds felt they'd been only slightly more likely to hear from Obama's campaign than Romney's.

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