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When Toronto FC signed Canadian defender Adam Braz prior to the 2007 Major League Soccer season, the hope was that the Montreal native would provide a stabilizing presence on defence as the expansion franchise found its feet.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The commanding 96-76 win by the Los Angeles Lakers over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday underlined their remarkable transformation over the last year, on the court and in the eyes of their supporters.
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Staff Sgt. Brian Schar got behind the wheel of a white Chevy Colorado yesterday and went for a spin. The vehicle remained snugly parked in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington, despite the large screens in front of the truck, which showed a street-level view of...
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The only player on Scolari's wish list if he was being really picky would be another striker to pep things up.
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BJP MP Somabhai Patel, who voted in favour of the UPA government in the trust motion on July 22 this year, got a fresh lease of life on Friday with Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee rejecting his erstwhile party's petition
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Starting today, Japanese company Cyberdyne will mass-produce its HAL ("Hybrid Assistive Limb") exoskeleton: The 22-pound battery-operated computer system is belted to the waist. It captures the brain signals and relays them to mechanical leg braces strapped to the thighs...
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The real world: where, precisely, is it? That is the faintly disconcerting puzzle that an encounter with Bruce Parry triggers. He is the explorer and television presenter who redefines the concept of suffering for his art.
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The home I grew up in... was a one-bedroom, ground-floor space that regularly flooded during the monsoon season in Mumbai. My brother, sister and I squeezed together on the bed and my mum and dad slept on a mattress on the floor. Aged nine, we moved to a two-bedroom flat in Hong Kong. It was like moving to a mansion.
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There is something about reproductive health that makes some Americans froth and go crazy.
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As a long-term Scottish Nationalist, albeit one who rather implausibly can't stand haggis, Stagecoach chief Brian Souter is no stranger to the political world.
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Regulators fears over sector's stability as market turmoil slashes the value of the stocks and bonds they hold to guarantee pension payments
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Search for Martina Cole in print or on the internet and you will find almost nothing about her, except that she is one of Britain's best-selling novelists.
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Rachael Mullenix, 19, expresses grudging remorse as she is sentenced for conspiring with her boyfriend to stab her mother and dump her body into Newport Harbor. Rachael Mullenix, the Huntington Beach teenager who conspired with her love-struck boyfriend to murder her mother and dump the slashed body into Newport Harbor, expressed only grudging and limited remorse Friday as a judge sentenced her to 25 years to life in prison.
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OLYMPIC silver medallist Kenny Egan and his parents were left 'shocked' and 'distraught' after intense speculation over his private life.
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AFTER a week of quite extraordinary financial events in which the word ‘unprecedented' became commonplace, it was with delight that I received a diverting email from a popular City restaurant which had noted a change in the eating habits of its customers.
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The Rays have finally escaped their ghost — the ghost of Greg Vaughn.
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Colgate’s Jordan Scott may be the leading rusher in the Football Championship Subdivision, but even his coach says he’s not that great. Still, he’s more than good enough.
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Jamie Livingston started taking one picture a day in 1979. The project ended 18 years and more than 6,000 photos later with a self-portrait on his deathbed on his 41st birthday.
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The director first dismissed 'Bees,' only to later fall in love with the book and bring it to the screen. SIX YEARS ago, when Gina Prince-Bythewood was first offered "The Secret Life of Bees" to adapt into a screenplay and direct, she blew it off without even reading the book. Never mind that Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a young white girl growing up in the civil-rights-era South was a bestseller. Prince-Bythewood had just come off directing two movies without a break and she was exhausted.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Fatmata Jalloh's body lay on a rusting metal gurney in a damp hospital ward, a scrap of paper with her name and "R.I.P." taped to her stomach. In the soft light of a single candle -- the power was out again in one of Africa's poorest cities -- Jalloh looked like a sleepi...
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With Bournemouth and Rotherham in dire financial straits Dean Court was a sobering place to be when they met.
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If you are what you cook, then a new book has given some revealing insights into the private lives of celebrities. Singer Sharon Corr's favourite is a light chicken salad, while Bertie Ahern sticks to recipes designed for a man on a tight budget when he cooks for his sisters-in-law.
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NEW YORK You expect a landmark exhibition to yield surprises, but they're not always as big as this. ¶ Digging into "Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964," now premiering at the Metropolitan Museum -- the largest-ever survey of "Italy's greatest modern painter," as Morandi has been called -- I discovered s...
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"Think globally. Act locally." Okay, so it's a mere bumper-sticker cliche for many people, but not for Dean R. Hoge, a renowned sociologist of religion and retired Catholic University professor who died of cancer Sept. 13 at age 71. Dr. Hoge -- the name rhymes with stogie -- personified the...
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THE honeymoon is over for North Queensland enforcer Carl Webb after he was arrested for drink driving the morning after he was married in Townsville.
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Ignacio Alvarado, 40, is a freelance investigative reporter and Reuters contributor in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez where he was born and now lives with his wife and two children. He has been a journalist for 20 years -- seven in Mexico City, the rest in Ciudad Juarez. In the following story, he describes life in an increasingly lawless city where it's becoming almost commonplace to see daylight drug gang shootings and walk past dumped bodies.
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The Chargers listed WR Chris Chambers as inactive for Week 6, meaning he won't play against the Patriots. He missed practice all week with a sprained left ankle.
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The director first dismissed 'Bees,' only to later fall in love with the book and bring it to the screen. SIX YEARS ago, when Gina Prince-Bythewood was first offered "The Secret Life of Bees" to adapt into a screenplay and direct, she blew it off without even reading the book. Never mind that Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a young white girl growing up in the civil-rights-era South was a bestseller. Prince-Bythewood had just come off directing two movies without a break and she was exhausted.
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The nation's top actors may be hot-footing it over the pond to Hollywood but, with a little help from 'El Mariachi' director Robert Rodriguez (right), Brit flicks can survive. The father of guerrilla film-making has launched an online movie school to inspire new British cinematic talent.
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Don't be shy Small talk – about the traffic, about the unseasonal heatwave – can be a bit cringe-making but making polite chit-chat with someone you don't know very well is a vital social glue. Even if you think it is contrived and boring, just suspend your disbelief for the common good. Saying "Don't you just hate small talk?" might be admirably honest, but it's also kind of embarrassing.
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The story line of Senator John McCain's 1999 memoir, "Faith of My Fathers," reshaped his political identity.
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