The Minotaur swung his legs around and sat up on the edge of the pool table.

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As Willem-Alexander was sworn in as king of the Netherlands on Tuesday, the crown sat on a table next to him, along with the other regalia that make up the crown jewels.

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Look, the kitchen table I grew up in Claymont, Delaware, no one sat around and was able to make a distinction between, if that existed at the time, between bailing out the banks, TARP, between a funding program that was designed called the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Even after the Nets had won their seventh straight game, Carlesimo sat at the table in the conference room and fretted about how he was going to divvy up playing time among five big men, including the emerging first-year forward Mirza Teletovic.

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