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  • The centre-half made an early impression in his first campaign on the south coast, racking up a string of appearances, but finished the season on loan at MK Dons.

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    FORBES: Harassment by Twitter and Blog

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  • Its members were gearing up for a string of U.S. club dates, followed by a European tour.

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  • For the second day running, the Labour leadership had to put up with a string of attacks on its economic policies and "control freak" tendencies.

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  • Hunting for an e-bike, I ended up at a string of shops near the Tsinghua campus, where each storefront offered a competing range of prices and styles to a clientele dominated by students and young families.

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  • With his new thriller, "Stay Close, " a story about a washed-up photographer, an ex-stripper and detective who team up to unravel a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, Mr. Coben isn't leaving anything to chance.

    WSJ: Harlan Coben Floods the Zone

  • Still, nothing could dampen the thrilling views on the west and north sides of the building (especially from the 2, 000-plus-square-foot Kohinoor Suite), which take in the entirety of the Queen's Necklace, the stretch of Marine Drive running along the city's Back Bay that, when lit up, truly resembles a vast string of pearls--one of the urban wonders of the world.

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  • By early 2008, Germany will be in a period of permanent campaigning: a string of important state elections will lead up to a federal election due by September 2009.

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  • On Lastovo island, Croatia, conservationists and local government have set up the first in a string of marine protection areas that will form a "blue corridor" along the Dalmation coast, an area expected to be one of the hottest new holiday destinations over the next 15 years.

    BBC: Med threat from 'concrete coasts'

  • Byron Bay is one of a great string of headlands with white-sand bays stretching up the New South Wales coast into Queensland.

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  • Silicon Valley pundits see this as a test case that may open floodgates for a long string of follow-up indictments.

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  • The left-hander followed up his opening round of 70 with a string of birdies -- nine in all -- and an eagle with the only bogey coming six holes from home.

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  • As a string of cars pulled up to drop off the sport stars, Omari and Sukhpeet quickly learned that a sudden burst of flashbulbs from the waiting photographers was a sign to start preparing for the next big name.

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  • If the dot.com crash, the collapse of Enron and the string of bankruptcies in the telecoms business did not sober up the business world, Kirch certainly will.

    BBC: Q&A: Kirch's insolvency

  • Up to half-a-million fans are expected to visit for the tournament and a string of sparkling new stadiums and hotels have sprung up to accommodate them.

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  • On his Twitter feed, Mr Dodge encourages fans of Stephen Soderbergh's latest film Contagion, one of a string of recent Hollywood pictures about deadly pandemics, to sign up to the site.

    BBC: Can crowdsourcing beat the flu?

  • Among the five candidates seeking to unseat Duncan is Dawson, who has presided over of a string of GOP successes in South Carolina, from the statehouse on up to last year's pivotal Republican presidential primary.

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  • Nelson now trains a string of established fighters and up-and-coming stars, including featherweight John Simpson, super-featherweight Michael Roberts, middleweight David Brophy and lightweight Santino Caruana.

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  • As I waited I watched engineers unpack computers and string clumps of bright blue cables up between the trees.

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  • To block such a measure, Daschle and the Democrats are sharpening their partisan shivs, threatening a string of amendments that would tie up the Senate chamber indefinitely.

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