For Woodward, the journey began with a Saturday in the office, when he and Bernstein are put on a story that seemed unremarkable at the time, a June 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at Washington's Watergate Hotel.

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After all, the former UC Santa Cruz music professor's name has, over the past several decades, become closely tied to the world of computer-generated music -- it figures that the journey that began with punch cards would have eventually led to tablets and smartphones.

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The journey to McDonogh 15 began with a phone call.

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As she told the BBC, this would be next stage of a journey for Jamaica which began with slavery at the hands of the British and which will end, if Simpson Miller gets her way, with full independence and a home grown head of state.

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For the work and pensions secretary, getting Universal Credit right amounts to the culmination of a ten year political journey, that began with what was dubbed his "Easterhouse epiphany".

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The bells began their journey back to Chile in April, first being lifted out of the seaside church's porch with the aid of some "small fork lift trucks and some strong men".

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Felton came to the job after a long and difficult journey that began like so many with hunger.

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Shapinga's football journey began some two decades ago, playing with the boys of her neighborhood despite the disapproval of her family and community.

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The journey Capello is taking England on has its most defining moments ahead but it began with the 63-year-old self-admittedly getting things moving by rebuilding the shattered confidence of the players.

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