• Standing outside his barn in shirt sleeves, McGaughey told the tale after getting beat, without being entirely sure whether that encouraging bit about another big win was meant for him or for Lukas himself.

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  • This week, separately, the Christian Democrat justice minister in the state of Brandenburg resigned after a tale of fishy property deals while he was an official in Mr Kohl's government.

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  • Call it a tale of two stocks after earnings.

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  • The interview was the All-American's first on camera since his tale of inspired play after the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend on the same day in September unraveled as a bizarre hoax in an expose by Deadspin.com on Jan. 16.

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  • Perhaps the owner of the villa ordered the making of the statues for his home after reading the tale in his favourite poet's work.

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  • So the sailors called it the "Little Golden Fish" - or "Zolotaya Rybka" in Russian - after a magical, fairy-tale fish which makes people's wishes come true.

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  • They said they bought the books, It's Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts, because they believed Armstrong's heroic tale of returning to compete drug-free after battling testicular cancer.

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  • Death Comes to Pemberley, which is due out in November, is set six years after the events of Austen's tale of romance and social advancement.

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  • Hooper paid tribute to his mother, who had drawn his attention to the story after she attended a reading of the tale when it was an unproduced play.

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  • One tells the tale of a young girl who turned into a tree after dying unhappily and brought sorrow to the Hani people.

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  • First, Sweden and Canada have chopped their public sectors after financial crises and lived to tell the tale (albeit against a much more clement global economic backdrop).

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  • Alisa Bowman estimates that only about 300 of her 50, 000 monthly visitors bought her recent memoir, Project Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairy Tale Falters.

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  • Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.

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  • Alisa Bowman, author of Project Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairy Tale Falters and the founder of a blog dedicated to improving marriages, has said that once she and her husband embarked on a project to save their marriage, which was chronicled in her book, they actually argued more.

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  • Bernal's austere tale of a young woman who goes on a healing crusade after seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary, which stars Filipino actress Nora Aunor, took the prize with 32 percent of the vote.

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  • The first being that we can piece together a little tale about who is really to blame for the mess at Autonomy after the takeover.

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  • The nine-year-old who has trouble sounding out simple words and his classmate who is reading A Tale of Two Cities for fun sit in the same classroom day after miserable day, the one so frustrated by tasks he cannot do and the other so bored that both are near tears.

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  • Fourteen-year-old Paralympian swimmer Eleanor Simmonds said she felt like she was "living in a fairy-tale" on becoming the youngest person ever honoured, made an MBE after winning two golds in the pool in Beijing.

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  • And yet at this time he recorded perhaps his greatest song, 1980's "He Stopped Loving Her Today, " the tale of a man who continued pining for his lost love many years after she left him.

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  • After being wrongfully accused of her murder, Corvo sets upon a tale of revenge and, depending on how you played, murder, through the rat-infested streets.

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  • Although the tale is almost certainly apocryphal (I figure the first sandwich was made the day after bread was invented), apparently the earl did lend his name to this gustatory delight.

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  • The play, directed by Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans, stays true to the tale of the unemployed Sheffield mates who find themselves on the scrap heap of life after their factory shuts.

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  • In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

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  • However, Wang's recent announcement has caused speculation as to whether her fairy-tale aesthetic will be affected by her own not-so-happily-ever-after ending.

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  • And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers' blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce.

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  • However, after the Senate plan is announced, the next major plot twist in the health care tale won't happen until September, when both chambers of Congress vote on their bills.

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  • But even Wolynn, who is also a certified lactation consultant, seemed skeptical when I related Kelly's tale -- usually women struggle because they haven't had enough support in the first few days after giving birth, in his experience.

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  • For those following the tale of McAfee, the man who amassed a fortune by running and then selling an antivirus software company named after him, this new twist should come as no surprise.

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  • The Vancouver-based yoga gear maker's statement comes a day after a New York Post report that was widely circulated by the media recounted one woman's tale of being asked by sales staff to bend over to prove that the yoga pants she was trying to return were sheer.

    NPR: Lululemon: Downward Dog Not Required For Returns

  • But the novel, initially a flop, was not much read or even appreciated until after World War I, long after Ryder had finished the painting, so it is almost certain, scholars agree, that the biblical tale was the artist's sole starting point.

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