Because for all intents and purposes, this is like a birthday present she anticipated for months and just arrived: Microsoft announced that HBO GO is launching on XBox Live today.

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At a childish level, this is badmouthing a classmate and refusing to acknowledge his birthday.

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Then there is the vanity factor: A popular request this year is to have a baby on a once-in-a-century birthday, 11-11-11.

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This is not the roadside dive some of us dream of finding, this is the place to take a date or celebrate a birthday.

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There is a certain irony as the nation celebrates this week the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

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Making things worse, Schultz coupled this birthday party with a recent press tour that suggest he is surprised Starbucks made it to 40 at all.

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That is, of every 365 readers of this article, roughly one will have a birthday on January 1.

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Our aim is to allow as many people to wish him a happy birthday this way letting him know he has a back-up of so many.

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Never before have I been able to wrap my mind around what it meant to be a classical composer in the 20th century until I began working on a book about Samuel Barber (whose 100th birthday it is this year).

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Japan has been making whiskey for over a century, and its most famous brand, the Yamazaki, is celebrating its 90th birthday this year.

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