But the NBA's best bargain played for the other team in town: Clippers point guard Jeff McInnis, who scored 32.8 yet made the league minimum for fifth-year players.

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As if it couldn't get better, as "Linsanity" exploded in Manhattan last week, the news emerged that the point guard, new in town and unsettled at his job, was suffering through that humbling but familiar metropolitan ritual: He was sleeping on other people's couches.

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Tribal leaders in Samarra are making similar demands as a precondition for turning that town over to the Iraqi police and national guard.

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The home guard are back on duty at the town's Garrison chapel, where there are plans to establish a military heritage centre.

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Members of the Nasa indigenous guard formed a circle around the three soldiers in the town of Caldono, in south-western Colombia, where they held them for a night and a day.

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Crown Princess Mette-Marit, for instance, moved freely among mourners at a gathering in the home town of her step-brother, Trond Berntsen, who was on guard at the Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island and one of the first to be killed.

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But he said the blame lay with a core of "old guard" members who more interested in keeping their jobs than in serving the people of the town.

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