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"sent": "Because you could be trying to shake off a legal bill."
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "The filings are on top of dozens more her's held for years."
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"sent": "The filings were reported by Vox, citing the legal database, Justia."
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"sent": "David Beckham David Beckham will spearhead England's presentation of the country's official bid document for the 2018"
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"sent": "Beckham, who will miss this year's tournament in South Africa due to injury, will lead the English Football Association delegation to world governing body FIFA's Swiss headquarters on Friday."
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"sent": "Beckham will be able to play a more active role in England's bid due to the ruptured Achilles Beckham suffered while on loan at Italian club AC Milan, which has also ruled Beckham out of the Los Angeles Galaxy's Major League Soccer season."
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"sent": "Beckham has already contributed to the campaign, taking part in an expo for bidding nations last December."
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"sent": "It's fantastic news that David's schedule has enabled Beckham to present and head our bid in Zurich,\" Football Association and bid"
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"sent": "David Beckham will head England's presentation bid for the the 2018 World Cup .\n"
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"sent": "Soccer superstar will lead delegation to FIFA's Zurich headquarters on Friday .\n"
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"sent": "David Beckham is ruled out of this year's World Cup in South Africa due to injury ."
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"sent": "this year's World Cup in South Africa hosting rights."
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"sent": "FIFA will make a decision on December 2 as to which country will be the 2018 host and also for the 2022 event."
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"ord": 4,
"sent": "England, who have also asked to be considered for 2022 if unsuccessful for 2018, will be up against the United States, Russia, Australia and joint bids from Belgium and the Netherlands, and Portugal and Spain."
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"sent": "With Europe likely to win the 2018 event, Japan, Qatar and South Korea are bidding for only 2022 hosting rights."
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"sent": "chairman David Triesman told the FA Web site on Monday."
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"sent": "It is entirely appropriate that chairman David Triesman does so as our bid is about football and the passion for it in our country."
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"sent": "England's bid book will feature proposals for stadiums, training venues, base camps and fan parks."
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"sent": "FA said about 16 stadiums are required with minimum capacities of between 40,000 for group matches and 80,000 for the opening match and final."
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"sent": "FIFA has strict requirements for accommodation, transport, IT, medical services, broadcasting, safety and security, ticketing, hospitality and commercial rights."
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"sent": "Nobody represents that better than David."
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"sent": "David is a fantastic footballer and a global role model."
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"sent": "What began as an experiment in making a public space into a shared space has become a global art project, with more than 400 \""
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"sent": "Our public spaces are as profound as Our allow Our public spaces to be,\" Chang, an artist, designer and urban planner, said in an e-mail."
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"sent": "Our public spaces are Our shared spaces, and Our public spaces have a lot of potential to offer Our a more valuable and meaningful kind of life."
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"sent": "The \"Before I Die\" global art project invites people to share hopes, dreams on public walls .\n"
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"sent": "Creator Candy Chang decided to invite others to share those thoughts by painting a chalkboard on the side of an abandoned house in New Orleans stenciled with the sentence"
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"sent": "\"Before I die I want to _"
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"sent": "In honor of the release of the first book celebrating"
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"sent": "Before I die's global footprint, Our asked Chang to reflect upon the most common themes expressed in the walls."
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"sent": "Before I die's global footprint\" came out of Chang's grief and depression, and the responses \"have reassured me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of Chang,\" Chang said."
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"sent": "In New Orleans, someone wrote, 'Before I die I want to eat a salad with an alien,' and someone else drew an arrow and wrote 'Before I die I want to marry this person,' \""
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"sent": "More than 400 \"Before I Die\" have been created in 60 countries and in 25 languages .\n"
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"sent": "Before I Die\" walls are celebrated in a new book out this month .\n"
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"sent": "After losing a close friend to liver failure, Creator Candy Chang spent a lot of time thinking about how Creator Candy Chang wanted to live out Creator Candy Chang days."
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"sent": "Contemplating death brought clarity to Creator Candy Chang life, but Creator Candy Chang struggled to maintain perspective amid the daily grind."
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"sent": "It's been quite the journey for Chang, who did not launch a global art project with plans to expand beyond New Orleans."
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"sent": "Many of the walls disappear a few months after they're \"born,\" just like Chang's did, after someone bought the building and renovated the building."
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"sent": "Love and be loved\" is one of the most common responses on walls around the world, Chang said."
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"sent": "But it resonated among pockets of passionate people around the globe."
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"sent": "Carl Jung said it's easier to go to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being."
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"sent": "Mental health takes as much exertion as physical health,\" Chang said."
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"sent": "Keep getting better every day\" (Chung-Li, Taiwan)"
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"ord": 35,
"sent": "\"Learn how to enjoy Chung-Li and let go"
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"sent": "\"Accompany this person forever\" (Chung-Li, Taiwan)"
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"sent": "But putting others ahead of us can be a tall order for some, especially in an era of instant gratification."
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"sent": "But, it's never too late, said Chang, and even the smallest gesture can last a lifetime."
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"sent": "Compassion lasts much longer than the moment."
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"sent": "I think about why Our came together in the first place."
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"sent": "Some of the earliest gathering places were graves and sacred groves."
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"sent": "Our gathered so Our could grieve together and worship together and console one another and be alone together."
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"sent": "Hopefully, they inspire you to reconsider your hopes, dreams and aspirations."
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"sent": "My family had a big white van that us drove all over the place when I was a kid,\" Chang said."
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"sent": "Those experiences deeply shaped who I am today."
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"sent": "It's made me more open-minded, reflective, compassionate, and grateful."
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"sent": "I'll never forget a middle school art teacher who encouraged me when I was full of self-doubt, a neighbor who fixed my bike pedal or a stranger who went out of his way to return my lost bag."
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"sent": "Making this project made me realize how much more I want to know my parents,\" Chang said."
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"ord": 78,
"sent": "I'm glad we're at a stage where we're good friends now, and I ask my parents fifty questions for every photograph from my parents childhood."
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"ord": 79,
"sent": "Each week, my dad sends me endearing stories that only enhance the inspiring mythology of our lives."
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"sent": "\"Come to terms with who I am\" (Washington)"
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"sent": "\"Stop being afraid\" (Jerusalem)"
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"sent": "\"Feel comfortable in my skin\" (Burning Man festival)"
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"sent": "Right all my wrongs\" (Brooklyn)"
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"sent": "\"Love recklessly again\" (New Orleans)"
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"sent": "\"Straddle the International Date Line\" (New Orleans)"
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"sent": "\"Bring peace of mind to my mom\" (Brooklyn)"
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"sent": "\"Find serenity\" (Vicenza, Italy)"
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"sent": "\"Find what I'm looking for (San Francisco)"
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"sent": "\"Reach my constant happiness\" (Berlin)"
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"sent": "Love Chang until the end of the world\" (Cordoba, Argentina)"
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"sent": "\"Sleep with a harp player\" (Lisbon, Portugal)"
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"sent": "\"Get married for the 10th time\" (Dublin)"
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"sent": "\"Find and kiss Chang one last time\" (Chicago)"
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"sent": "\"Find my true love\" (Beijing)"
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"sent": "\"Find my other half\" (Madrid)"
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"sent": "\"Be loved unconditionally\" (Jersey City, New Jersey) 3."
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"sent": "\"Take my wife to Liverpool\" (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)"
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"sent": "\"Visit Venice with the love of my life\" (Auckland, New Zealand)"
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"sent": "Fix Nick's car\" (Cape Town, South Africa) \"Make someone's day\" (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)"
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"sent": "\"See a just society\" (Madrid)"
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"sent": "\"See my youngest fly\" (Minneapolis)"
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"sent": "\"Be back in my kid's life\" (Reno, Nevada)"
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"sent": "\"Enjoy a pleasant cruise\" (Pohang City, South Korea) 4. Helping others ."
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"sent": "Who doesn't have a long list of places they'd like to visit?"
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"sent": "Travel can be the hardest thing to find the time and money to invest in, but that doesn't stop us from dreaming and plotting adventures."
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"sent": "Ever since, traveling has been my school and my therapy."
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"sent": "I've taken many road trips across America, and I worked in Nairobi, Helsinki, Medan, Johannesburg and beyond."
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"sent": "A U.S. airstrike in Syria happened overnight Wednesday near Idlib, according to the official, who has access to the latest information about the strikes."
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"sent": "five U.S. airstrikes hit terrorists and destroyed or severely damaged several Khorasan Group vehicles and buildings, the U.S. military's Central Command said in a news release."
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"sent": "Which is why a week like the one just past is such a sobering reminder that we are always just an unanticipated disaster away from a trip into the primitive America that existed before."
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"sent": "But that situation was, for most of America's history, so commonplace as to be unremarkable."
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"sent": "our don't even question the marvelous advances that once seemed out of reach."
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"sent": "As delightful as his telling of the story was back then, I thought of the story again last week, in a much more serious context."
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"ord": 47,
"sent": "And then, darkness falls."
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"sent": "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
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"ord": 38,
"sent": "How do the essential things in which we place we confidence really get done?"
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"sent": "the Bin Laden raid occurred in a span of 38 minutes, after CIA reports of repeated sightings of a tall man doing \"prison yard walks\" around the yard of the housing compound in Abbottabad, which was under constant surveillance, an official said on condition of anonymity a few days after the Bin Laden raid."
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"sent": "that a tall man doing \"prison yard walks\" around the yard of the housing compound in Abbottabad, which was under constant surveillance , but U.S. authorities eventually concluded that there was enough evidence to go through with the operation."
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"sent": "The first man killed in the mission -- which an official said was code-named Operation Neptune Spear -- was the Kuwaiti courier who had worked for bin Laden."
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"sent": "The first man killed in the mission -- which the U.S. official said was code-named Operation Neptune Spear -- was shot dead after a brief gunfight in a guest house."
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"sent": "The troops then moved into the compound's three-story main building, where The troops shot and killed the courier's brother."
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"sent": "As The troops went upstairs and around barricades, one of bin Laden sons rushed at bin Laden's sons and was killed."
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"sent": "After DNA tests and further confirmations of bin Laden identity, bin Laden was buried at the North Arabian Sea within 12 hours of bin Laden killing \"in conformance with Islamic precepts and practices,\" White House press secretary Jay Carney said."
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"sent": "Zero Dark Thirty\" is about the decade-long hunt for bin Laden."
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