And so it was that I had only to walk around the corner from my room to begin my first interview of the trip with the West Coast rappers The Saurus and Dirtbag Dan.

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Then comes the "Walk it Out, " where the students, one at a time, walk diagonally from one corner of the room to the other.

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You keep your head low and you walk around the corner 300 yards to what is quite called with accuracy exquisite the Local Bar with a Guardian crossword puzzle curled under your arm.

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Indeed, we cut such a swathe through Wales that if you wished to do so - and why not, for it is a lovely country - you could walk from the south-east corner to the north-western most point and find yourself on Conservative territory all the way.

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My brother and I could walk to school, there was a pizza joint down the street with a cigarette-scarred Asteroids machine, and the corner Optimo sold comic books.

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The market is certainly hearing from the euro exports corner, but what can ECB chief Mario Draghi do or say, if anything, to walk the currency value lower?

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