He had a string of hits during the swinging London days of the '60s, and his story began when he left school in his native Glasgow, Scotland, to bum across Europe with a friend.

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He left school without qualifications when he was expelled for attacking a teacher with a chair.

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"It's such a big place, anything could happen, " said Liu Wenbing, a 19-year-old worker who left school when he was 13 to take up jobs fixing cars around the country.

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A. course who'd left school when he was 16.

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He became a teacher in high school when his longtime instructor left and recommended that he replace her even though Klein had no experience on the other side of choreography.

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"Because Tregib is in a rural area we feel very strongly that we have got to give the pupils a taste of the enterprise world if we are to get them to continue living in the area when they have left school, " he added.

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He left for the U.S. when still in high school, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with an economics degree and, upon his return to Japan, insisted on using his Korean surname, Son, instead of Yasumoto, the Japanese name his parents had taken.

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School of American Ballet alum Nick Smirnov had just left his first job when he auditioned for a small dance company in Florida and was offered a job on the spot.

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Police say they visited Castro's house twice in the past - once in 2000 when Mr Castro reported a fight in the street and again in 2004, after he left a child unattended on a school bus - but had never entered the residence.

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