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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said internal controls are usually enough to prevent banks from engaging in illegal "tying," a practice in which low-cost loans are offered to borrowers who agree to buy other high-fee services.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 2 -- Venezuela's business establishment often warns that if President Hugo Chávez wins reelection Sunday, it won't take long before the populist firebrand transforms Venezuela into a communist state, dooming its oil-rich economy. Alejandro Uscátegui, an industrialist here, couldn't disagr...
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Reuters - IBACH, Switzerland (Reuters) -- It was the flip-open tool of the 20th century, but the Swiss Army Knife fell out of favor as mobile phones and MP3 players vied for pocket space.
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The company behind the automaker Fiat will pay $563 million for 67.5 percent of Cushman & Wakefield in a move to further diversify from the automotive industry.
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Reuters - The dollar held near overnight levels on Wednesday but stayed under selling pressure ahead of U.S. trade data that could swing the market's focus back to the problem of huge deficits in the United States.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice orders increased oversight of private security firms in Iraq.
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AP - In what the Taliban claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide bomber attacked the main gate of a U.S. military base Tuesday within earshot of Vice President Dick Cheney. The explosion killed 23 people, including two Americans, and delivered a propaganda blow that undercut the U.S. military and the weak Afgha...
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Once-dominant Manchester United no longer inspire fear in their opponents, according to club captain Roy Keane. United, English champions eight times in the last dozen seasons, already
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The head of the Asian Development Bank warns of a widening poverty gap in Asia's fast growing economies.
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Nokia said Monday it will buy the U.S.-based mobile advertising company in a bid to expand its role in Internet services.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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The magnitude of the tsunami that remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.
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Outlook: This has the potential to be the most lopsided of the four showdowns today. Tennessee has lost the last four games to the Bulldogs and is 10th in the 12-team SEC in total defense, and have a turnover margin of minus-three. David Greene, the Bulldogs' senior, is a much more effective passer when he is aided by...
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Research In Motion settles a trademark lawsuit with Samsung over its Blackberry handheld e-mail device.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gilbert Arenas knows the Washington Wizards porous defense needs to get better this season and the high-scoring guard plans to lead by example.
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Mike Conley Jr. scores a career-high 23 points and Greg Oden creates havoc at the defensive end to lead No. 3 Ohio State past Michigan, 76-63, on Tuesday night.
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President Jacques Chirac was considering bringing forward the date of France's national referendum on the EU constitution yesterday after a resounding victory for the "yes" camp
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Reuters - The world's two most populous nations promised on Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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Things can always get worse.
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AP - Josh Duncan's first shot was a dead-center 3-pointer. For his next shot, the junior center darted inside to get a three-point play.
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KABUL - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election officially started on Thursday, five days after the vote. The tally has been delayed because of an investigation into alleged irregularities on election day.
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AP - President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao tackled contentious issues on Thursday, from climate change and Iran and North Korea to recalls of tainted Chinese food and individual freedoms in China.
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Apple announced second quarter financial results, with revenue of $5.26 billion and a net profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.36 billion and a net profit of $410 million, or $.47 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 35.1%, up from 29.8% a yea...
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Vice President Cheney's press officer, Cathie Martin, approached his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Air Force Two on July 12, 2003, to ask how she should respond to journalists' questions about Joseph C. Wilson IV. Libby looked over the reporter's questions and told Martin: "Well, let me go talk to the bo...
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SATELLITE TV giant BSkyB impressed the market with an immediate upturn in subscriber growth yesterday, a boost that helped the firm’s annual general meeting pass without controversy.
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Reuters - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will discuss Sudan's Darfur conflict with Libyan officials and consult South African President Thabo Mbeki about Zimbabwe during a trip to Africa this week, an aide said on Tuesday.
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By Dan Higgins, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Dec. 15--GILBOA -- The scaffolding is gone. The construction companies are down to skeleton crews. And following a tense year on the edge of unprecedented disaster, people who live in the shadow of the Gilboa Dam can relax.
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In this photo released by NASA, the X-43A "scramjet" is seen attached to a modified Pegasus rocket under the wing of a B-52 aircraft before its release off the Southern California coast Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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The generational divide becomes apparent as families start to think about gift-giving holidays. Advice for shoppers of all ages.
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French peacekeepers in Ivory Coast use tear gas to calm protests over an alleged bank heist by French troops.
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Seventh seed Gaston Gaudio crashed out in the second round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday, losing 7-5 3-6 6-1 to Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.
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Manchester United chairman Sir Roy Gardner could be on his way out if Malcolm Glazer's takeover bid is successful. The Observer says Glazer he is likely to oust Gardner and install his son Joel as chairman at Old Trafford.
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Here are some rantings from the world of professional golf. Sort of. Vijay Singh has won eight times on the PGA Tour in 2004. He has set the
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DECEMBER 07, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - IMlogic Inc. and several partners today unveiled a new instant messaging "threat center" clearinghouse aimed at fighting IM viruses, malicious software code and spam before they occur.
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By Ben Spencer A VIDEO of a teenage thug shooting at the windows of a house has been posted on internet site YouTube. The 32-second clip shows the youngster, goaded by pals, firing a rifle as shocked bystanders look on. He then hurls the weapon at a window, smashing it.
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Free-agent outfielder Mike Cameron and the Milwaukee Brewers reached a preliminary agreement on a $7 million, one-year contract that includes a club option for 2009.
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Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it will delay the release of its Office 2007 business productivity software, citing a desire to implement improvements from customer feedback received during testing.
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Early openings, deep discounts and resurgent department stores appeared to give merchants at the mall an edge over discount retailers.
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Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an anti-war libertarian who has clashed with his rivals over Iraq, raised a record $4.5 million in a one-day Internet fund-raising event on Sunday, his campaign said in a statement.
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Same old, same old Virus writers have run out of fresh ideas for the creation of malware, according to a study by Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab.

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AFP - More than 20 people have died in massive flooding around the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, according to a government statement Wednesday, which warned of further possible deaths.
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With the Giants having already handed their future to Eli Manning, Kurt Warner will have to look elsewhere for a starting job.
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The inquiry into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister is in a “sensitive and complicated phase,” the head of the investigation said.
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A new study of violent Jovian storms suggests that Jupiter's jets are driven by internal heat and wind and not solar radiation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials said on Friday they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck & Co Inc and Schering-Plough's cholesterol medicine Vytorin following the drug's failure to work better than a generic drug in a study of plaque build-up in neck arteries.
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AFP - The glitz of the film industry comes to London on Sunday for the BAFTAs, Britain's showpiece movie awards, which have taken on extra significance this year.
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Gasoline prices are heading up, ending an unusual period in which gasoline prices were falling even as oil prices rose.
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The US is disappointed that Myanmar extended the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, their opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner.
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Network Appliance has announced what it terms a key milestone in its Storage Grid vision with the release of its Data ONTAP 7G enterprise storage software, which the company is touting as bringing newer functionality and lower costs to the concept of
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MEN (after short program): 3. Stephen Carriere (Wakefield, Mass.); 6. Scott Smith (SC Boston); 10. Parker Pennington (Windsor, Conn.).
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He is Sports Illustrated's major league player of the year -- a "self-appointed ghostbuster" who became "the ultimate closer," the magazine raved -- but Curt Schilling has prepared himself since September for the prospect of falling short in the race for his first Cy Young Award.
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Ashburn, VA (Sports Network) - Washington Redskins star linebacker LaVar Arrington will miss his fourth straight game after having right knee surgery last month.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Apple chief Steve Jobs will make a rare joint appearance to wax lyrical about their visions of future technologies at the D: All Things Digital conference, which is to be held in Carlsbad, California.
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Nagpur: Barely a few minutes after stumps were drawn on the opening day, John Buchanan and Adam Gilchrist walked up to have a first-hand look at the wicket.
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The U.S. intends to seek Jacob Alexander’s extradition to face charges stemming from a scheme to backdate stock option grants.
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AP - Six explosions ripped apart pipelines for Mexico's state oil monopoly early Monday, the company said. The blasts were believed to be sabotage and 12,000 people were evacuated afterward.
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Rarely do people work so hard to drum up votes for no one in particular.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Javier Valentin's bases-loaded single in the 12th inning lifted the Cincinnati Reds to a 2-1 home victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday, after Aaron Harang had pitched 10 masterful innings for the hosts.
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Seven go on trial over the deaths of more than 100 children from the human form of mad cow disease.
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LONDON, July 3 -- Last Wednesday, Gordon Brown stepped up to a microphone outside the fabled black door of 10 Downing Street to address his nation for the first time after becoming prime minister about an hour earlier. Without a smile, he promised to "try my utmost" and soon signed off somberly,...
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Fitness experts from the International Sports Sciences Association say that "exertainment" such as Wii Sports combines fun and fitness in a way that could provide a lifetime of benefits. In Game|Life.
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Reuters - Boeing Co. prepared to unveil the first carbon-composite 787 Dreamliner on Sunday amid a flurry of 55 new orders for the lightweight, fuel efficient plane.
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JEJU, South Korea - Grace Park won the CJ Nine Bridges Classic on Sunday, shooting a 7-under-par 65 for a five-stroke victory and giving her game a big boost after a collapse in the final round two weeks ago.
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Does Geico's trademark lawsuit against Google have merit? How will the case be argued? What's the likely outcome of the trial? A mock court of trademark experts weighs in with their verdict.
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JBoss on Monday plans to flesh out details of its open source middleware stack consisting largely of existing software technologies, with the company intending to fill out the stack over time.
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Sony's new digital still cameras aren't due to be announced until next week, but details of the devices have appeared on numerous Web sites.
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AP - Charlie Sifford only wanted a chance to play. Despite a warning from Jackie Robinson that he would face taunts and threats, Sifford fought the PGA Tour over its Caucasian-only clause until he became its first black member in 1960. Full privileges didn't come for another five years. He couldn't stay in hotels at so...
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Rep. James T. Walsh (R-N.Y.) spent last year aggressively fundraising and campaigning for what promised to be a very close election in his toss-up district in Syracuse. A 10-term House veteran and senior member on the coveted House Appropriations Committee, Walsh raised more than $780,000, almost...
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Worth watching Time Warner Cable is experimenting with a high-speed internet service that would bill customers based on the amount of bandwidth they consume rather than by flat fee.

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AFP - Li Na of China produced one of the best performances of her career to blast past Mary Pierce into the fourth round of the US Open.
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New credit terms help boost the stock, but accounting issues linger.
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AFP - The first two direct flights from China to Taiwan since the end of a civil war 55 years ago landed in Taipei, carrying Taiwanese businesspeople home for the Lunar New Year holidays.
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Colts.com. HEAD COACH: Jeff Fisher, 11th season as Titans head coach, 11th season as NFL head coach (92-69, 97-73 including playoffs).
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Come inside the value camp and cozy up to long-term results with a cushion of safety.
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LONDON Bill Nicholson, who managed Tottenham Hotspur in its glory days of the 1960s and 70s, died on Saturday after a long illness, family members said.
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( InfoWorld ) - An unpatched flaw in a Symantec anti-virus management console resulted in the compromise of a server containing the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 45,000 students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The students, enrolled at the university from 2002 to present, are presently being not...
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Reuters - Houston Rockets guard Steve Francis is to have a knee operation that will end his season, the NBA team said on Thursday.
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China hoped to become a highly competitive producer of crocodile meat, hides and shoes, but that dream has been difficult to realize.
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said. ``It was just due diligence. We had to get a second opinion on some. standard part of the physical exam. The Brewers hadn't expected any problems.
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Barack Obama's White House campaign receives a boost with the backing of Senator Edward Kennedy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said on Thursday that quarterly earnings fell 11 percent, hurt by writedowns in bond trading.
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Rudi Johnson and Chad Johnson led the Cincinnati Bengals to a 23-10 win over Denver Monday. Rudi Johnson ran for 119 yards and a 36-yard touchdown.
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( InfoWorld ) - Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday. It also has formed an alliance of software vendors aimed at making BPEL a more m...
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Early in 2002, this website published an excellent article which documented the activity among the various ice shelves on the perimeter of the Antarctic. At that time, there had recently been several significant calving events, rendering vast, floating islands of ice. Also discussed was the complete collapse, in 19...
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4.8TB in one array - but are these drives getting too big? IP-based storage is thoroughly enterprise-ready, claimed iSCSI specialist EqualLogic as it doubled the capacity of its high-end SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) storage box with almost no change in price.

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By Staff Reports Adults users should protect their personal and financial information from 'phishing.' Many older users may be leery about safety when using MySpace.
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AP - St. Louis defensive lineman Tyoka Jackson is doubtful for the Monday night game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for whom he played for five seasons, because of a pulled left hamstring. By his count he'd missed only one practice in his career before getting hurt.
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Australian building group James Hardie Industries misled the public when it said it had set aside enough money to meet asbestos compensation claims.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World number one Roger Federer will begin the defense of his Australian Open title against Argentine Diego Hartfield after the draw was made at Melbourne Park on Friday.
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CHERRY HILL, NJ -- Commerce Bancorp Inc., the parent of Commerce Bank, said Tuesday its profit jumped 42 percent in the third quarter, boosted by strong deposit growth.
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Chauncey Billups hits the game-winning jumper over Gilbert Arenas to rally the Pistons to a 107-105 victory over the Wizards.
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More thoughts on the ups and downs of this retirement-savings option.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko's victory in last month's presidential election re-run, clearing the way for his inauguration.
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In the past three years, injuries have been as much a part of tennis as grunts and ground strokes.
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Blog: Start-up will use series B funding to build out 20-megawatt solar-cell manufacturing plant.
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WASHINGTON, NOV 20 : After a bitter 18-month battle Oracle Corporation has succeeded in taking control of more than 60% of outstanding shares of rival business software group PeopleSoft, but obstacles to the hostile takeover remain.
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BRITISH football has come a long way since the early Eighties, when racism was rife among fans, especially in England where chanting mobs got away with flinging bunches of bananas at Liverpool player John Barnes - who was then one of only a handful of
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Do you have to be undead to get rich?
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