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Buffett drives a GM-made Cadillac DTS sedan, so the investment could be a further sign of his preference among U.S. automakers. Berkshire is not invested in Ford Motor Co. or Chrysler, which is majority owned by Fiat SpA. www.shoesjordansforcheap.com
But the purchase of the GM stake, worth about $214 million as of Tuesday, could also have been made by one of Berkshire’s other investment managers. Berkshire’s only other known auto investment is its roughly 10 percent stake in Chinese electric car maker BYD.
Omaha-based Berkshire also revealed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it boosted its stake in Wal-Mart by almost 8 million shares to 46.7 million shares.
The first-quarter move to expand Berkshire’s stake in Wal-Mart came before The New York Times published a report detailing allegations that Wal-Mart executives used bribes to speed the retailer’s expansion in Mexico.
Buffett told Berkshire shareholders earlier this month, however, that the scandal didn’t change his view on Wal-Mart’s value or its earning power.
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The documents Berkshire filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission also don’t reveal everything Buffett and the company’s two new investment managers were buying and selling in the first quarter. That’s because regulators allow them to omit some of the company’s holdings from the report. new air jordan fusion shoes
Berkshire tweaked a number of positions in its $75.3 billion portfolio during the first three months of 2012. It also added a stake of 1.6 million Viacom shares, which was the only new holding reported besides GM.
It also boosted its investments in DirecTV, Liberty Media, DaVita Inc. and the Bank of New York Mellon.
Berkshire reduced its holdings in Intel Corp., Kraft Foods, Dollar General, Procter & Gamble and Verisk Analytics.
The IBM stake that Berkshire first reported last fall grew to 64.4 million shares by the end of March from 63.9 million in December.
Initially, the IBM investment surprised many because Buffett had long refused to invest in technology companies because it’s too hard to predict which one will prosper in the long run. But Buffett said in November that IBM had become more of a service company with long-lasting customers who are reluctant to change.
Buffett makes most of the investment decisions at Berkshire, but Tuesday’s filing didn’t differentiate between choices he made and ones made by the company’s other investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler.
Buffett has said he doesn’t typically make investments worth less than $300 million, so many of the moves reported Tuesday are likely the work of Combs or Weschler.
Buffett has praised both Combs and Weschler and said the two men are managing $2.75 billion each, while Buffett oversees the remaining roughly $150 billion.
Combs started at Berkshire last year, so he is further along in building his portfolio. Weschler started early this year.
Berkshire’s investments are closely watched in the market because of Buffett’s successful record.
Berkshire occasionally receives permission from the SEC to delay disclosing some stock purchases to prevent others who follow Buffett’s moves from driving up the price of those stocks before Berkshire completes its purchases. Berkshire then discloses the purchases or sales in a subsequent quarter and issues amended reports for previous quarters.
The SEC says it grants such confidentiality to investment managers only when they can show they would be harmed substantially by immediate disclosure.
Besides investments, Berkshire owns roughly 80 subsidiaries, including clothing, furniture and jewelry firms, but its insurance and utility businesses typically account for more than half of the company’s net income. Other major investments include Coca-Cola Co.
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Instead, China has deployed patrol vessels from its expanding fleet of paramilitary ships to Scarborough Shoal, known in Chinese as Huangyan Island. Naval experts say the intent is to minimize the risk of conflict and contain any regional backlash.
After alarming some of its neighbors in recent years with assertive behavior in the South China Sea, China has turned to “small stick” diplomacy, using unarmed or lightly armed patrol boats from fisheries, marine surveillance and other civilian agencies rather than warships.
Shen Dingli, a security expert at Shanghai’s Fudan University, said the role of these vessels was to demonstrate “soft power” and avoid the impression that China was engaged in gunboat diplomacy. www.shoesjordans23.com
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Beijing, however, has shown no sign of compromise in a standoff that began when Chinese civilian patrol vessels last month intervened to stop the Philippines from arresting Chinese fisherman working in the disputed area. More such incidents are likely unless the Philippines can provide a counterweight to the challenge, either on its own or with allies, security analysts say.
China’s tough stance comes at a time of spectacular political scandal and swirling rumors of high-level infighting over the sacking of the once high-flying Chongqing Party boss, Bo Xilai.
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Senior leaders vying for top positions will also be keen to shore up their nationalist credentials with the politically powerful military.
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Both nations claim sovereignty over the group of rocks, reefs and small islands about 220 km (132 miles) from the Philippines with patrol vessels and fishing boats from each side deployed to the area in an increasingly acrimonious confrontation.
China’s defense ministry last week took the unusual step of denying reports it was preparing for war, but the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the military’s mouthpiece, warned the Philippines was making “serious mistakes” in maintaining its claim.
“We want to say that anyone’s attempt to take away China’s sovereignty over Huangyan Island will not be allowed by the Chinese government, people and armed forces,” it said.
Manila has called for the United Nation’s International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) to rule on the dispute in the strategically important and resource-rich sea. Half the world’s merchant fleet tonnage sails across the sea and around these islets each year, carrying $5 trillion worth of trade.
While Beijing has thus far kept its navy at a distance, the Philippines, like most regional nations, is well aware it would be overwhelmingly outgunned by China’s powerful military if it came to a fight.
After more than two decades of double digit increases in defense spending, China has an expanding fleet of advanced warships, submarines — now the largest in Asia — and long-range strike aircraft. Kids Jordan Shoes sale
However, if Beijing resorts to force, it would almost certainly drive other claimants to territory in the South China Sea — including Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia — closer together. Those three countries, along with the Philippines, are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which is creating an EU style-community that also envisions joint security.
Regional nations also have begun to cement closer military ties with the United States. Starting with a trip late last year, U.S. President Barack Obama has touted a “pivot” toward the economically dynamic Asia-Pacific region in an effort to reassure nervous allies of the U.S. commitment as China flexes its economic and military muscle.
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That means China will likely continue to send a strong message with its civilian patrol boats while keeping its real firepower in reserve, according to security experts.
“It is much easier for paramilitary vessels to assert sovereignty claims with less probability of escalation to armed violence,” said Christian Le Miere, a maritime security researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
“It allows for more containable events and incidents.”
Other Asian nations have also been expanding their paramilitary fleets in recent years, particularly Japan which has a powerful coastguard. China’s use of these vessels, however, is drawing the most attention.
An early indication of the effectiveness of this strategy was China’s sustained harassment in early 2009 of the U.S. spy ship Impeccable in the South China Sea off Hainan Island.
Chinese patrol boats and surveillance ships buzzed and tormented the Impeccable for days, at one point even attempting to grapple its underwater sonar array used to identify and track submarines.
“If China had deployed naval ships, the response of the U.S. might have been more aggressive,” says Le Miere who has studied the use of paramilitary ships in Asia.
For China, devoting more resources to these forces fills an important gap in its maritime power between its massive merchant fleet and its expanding, blue water navy.
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Chinese maritime specialists have called on Beijing to devote more attention to the civilian agencies responsible for enforcing domestic law and maintaining order in its territorial waters
The main Chinese government agencies that deploy patrol vessels in the South China Sea and other coastal waters are the Maritime Safety Administration, the Maritime Police of the Border Control Department, the Fisheries Law Enforcement Command, the General Administration of Customs and the State Oceanographic Administration
Other, smaller agencies including provincial governments and local police and customs also send patrol boats and surveillance vessels to sea.
The paramilitaries that China has sent to Scarborough Shoals include the 1,300-tonne Haijian 75 and 1,740-tonne Haijian 84, advanced surveillance vessels from the State Oceanographic Administration.
Beijing also stationed the 2,580-tonne Yuzheng-310, it’s most advanced fisheries law enforcement vessel, off the disputed shoal.
Some Chinese and foreign experts have criticized the disjointed coordination of these forces.
Outspoken People’s Liberation Army Strategist, Major General Luo Yuan, in March called for China to establish a unified coast guard, similar to those of Japan, the United States and Russia.
In interviews with state-controlled media, Luo said up to nine agencies were now responsible for enforcing maritime law which sometimes led to waste and inefficiency.
“If China integrated these forces, it could act more flexibly when maritime incidents occur,” he said.
As tension mounted at Scarborough Shoal, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group warned in a report late last month that China’s poorly coordinated and sometimes competing civilian agencies were inflaming frictions over disputed territory.
“Any future solution to the South China Sea dispute needs to address the problem of China’s mix of diverse actors and construct a coherent and centralized maritime policy and law enforcement strategy,” it said.
(Editing by Bill Tarrant)
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The new fund, which will require investors to lock up their money for eight years, comes at a time when many hedge funds and private equity firms are raising money to acquire foreclosed homes with the intent to rent them out for several years before selling them as the housing recovery takes hold. www.jordansretroforsale.com
The single-family home fund is one of the first to be offered by a more traditional U.S. money manager. TCW, which manages $128 billion, may be best-known for its wide array of bond mutual funds. A TCW spokesman declined to comment.
The soon-to-launch TCW fund could be an indication that investor interest in foreclosed homes is widespread.
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TCW has been investigating the market for renting out foreclosed homes for about two years. In fact, TCW quietly tested the idea with a small fund that used its own money — not outside capital — to acquire single-family homes in Phoenix, one of the hardest-hit housing markets in the nation, according to sources familiar with the matter. TCW bought many of those homes at courthouse foreclosure auctions.
Over the past year, Phoenix has proved to be an attractive draw for housing investors and speculators because the market for operating rental homes ha s been quite active.
On a conference call for prospective investors earlier this month, a TCW executive said once the housing market in a hard-hit city starts to correct, there is a “substantial price appreciation” for rental homes. In a taped replay of the May 2 conference call, the executive said that “based on our experience on the ground in Phoenix, we are now seeing a similar dynamic in Orlando and Sacramento, California.”
Other TCW executives on the call said they expect to use leverage, or borrowed money, to give the fund more buying power than the $250 million it expects to raise. The executive said TCW has had conversations with two major U.S. banks that are interested in lending money to investors seeking to buy foreclosed homes, rehabilitate them and operate them as rentals for several years.
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He declined to say what additional evidence or investigation led to the indictment by a Hawaii County grand jury, but said the case was never formally closed by Hawaii police detectives.
Hawaii County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Linda Walton said additional DNA testing was conducted earlier this year but said she could not elaborate on the evidence against DeJarnette.
DeJarnette was ordered held in lieu of $200,000 bail, and a judge set a trial date in the case for October 30. DeJarnette faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. Shoes Jordan Fusions Sale
A public defender who represented him at the brief hearing said she had no information on the facts of the case. A Los Angeles police spokesman said department officials expected to issue a statement on the case later on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; editing by Cynthia Johnston and Todd Eastham)
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Police in Bremerton, Washington, where the shooting took place, said the .45-caliber handgun the boy brought to school belonged to the mother’s boyfriend, but they believed the child took it from the glove box of the vehicle she drove.
The semiautomatic pistol, which the boy has said he was carrying as protection against bullies, went off in his backpack at the Armin Jahr Elementary School on February 22, critically wounding an 8-year-old girl, Amina Kocer-Bowman.
Both children were in third grade at the school, located about 70 miles west of Seattle.
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He also wrote a letter of apology to his classmate and agreed to testify against his mother, Jamie Chaffin.
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An attorney for relatives of the wounded girl said the family was upset by the outcome of the mother’s plea deal.
“Their disappointment was based on the fact that the assault charge … was dismissed and the person who bore responsibility for the shooting of their child was absolved of that responsibility by the plea bargain,” lawyer Jeffery Campiche said. “The crime, as the Bowman family sees it, was the horror of the discharge of a handgun in an elementary school classroom, not the fact that a felon possessed a handgun.”
Amina, now 9, has undergone numerous surgeries since she was shot and continues a difficult recovery from a shattered elbow and severe damage to internal organs, including her liver, spleen and a kidney, Campiche told Reuters.
Discharged from the hospital in early April, the girl is recuperating from home, and her mother was forced to quit her job to tend to her daughter, he said. The family does not know when Amina will be able to return to school.
(This story refiled to fix lawyer’s first name in 11th paragraph)
(Editing by Steve Gorman and Paul Simao)
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Sentencing guidelines suggest Clemens receive only between 15 and 21 months behind bars if convicted.
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New York Islanders center John Tavares and Edmonton Oilers Jordan Eberle both collected a goal and an assist, while Canadian goalie Cam Ward picked an assist and produced 28 saves to add all three points to their team’s balance.
The Swiss started in a brave mood and clinched the lead at 1:40 as Goran Bezina’s pass from the blue line slid through the traffic to Damien Brunner, who swept it into an unguarded post.
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Bezina pulled the scores level 3:49 into the third but Canada skipper Ryan Getzlaf netted his team’s winning goal firing the puck into the net with a slap shot after beating Swiss defence on a breakaway with 11:58 to go.
“When we face Switzerland at the world championships it’s always a hard-fought tough game,” Canada’s manager Brent Sutter said.
“The Swiss team opened the game with a well-structured hockey playing with great discipline. We came back with early goals in the second and third and it helped us a great deal to win the match.”
Meanwhile, in Stockholm the event’s co-hosts Sweden outscored 5-2 Germany to remain their group’s table-toppers with four wins in as many matches.
Chicago Blackhawks center Marcus Kruger gave Sweden an early lead scoring 1:17 into the first period when he sent home a rebound from just outside the crease.
Germany poured into attack seeking the equaliser and their left winger Philip Gogulla levelled just before the first intermission scoring on Kai Hospelt’s pass.
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Germany’s Patrick Reimer narrowed the gap with 3:02 remaining in the second period but Niklas Persson restored Sweden’s two-goal lead 2:30 into the third, while Detroit Red Wings’ right wing Johan Franzen finalised the scoring at 48:32.
In the early match at Helsinki, 2002 champions Slovakia boosted their chances for a quarter-final spot with a hard-fought 4-2 win over Kazakhstan.
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Libor Hudacek restored the Slovaks’ lead with a powerplay goal 2:11 remaining in the second period but Konstantin Pushkaryov levelled again 3:15 into the third.
Florida Panthers right winger Tomas Kopecky finally scored the winning goal with 11:52 remaining. He than made it 4-2 for Slovaks with his second of the match with just 13sec to go.
“We were the favourites for the first time at the event but this role seems to be no good for us,” said Slovak manager Vladimir Vujtek.
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The third-seeded Lakers wasted a golden opportunity to close out their best-of-seven Western Conference quarter-final series with a dismal shooting display in Tuesday’s 102-99 loss to the fired-up and fast-paced Nuggets.
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The Nuggets are difficult to beat in the high altitude of Denver but the Lakers can feed off the positive memories of their gritty 92-88 road victory in Game Four which put them ahead 3-1 in the series.
“We’re ready to get in there, play as good as we can and try to close this out,” said Lakers reserve guard Steve Blake who made a three-pointer with 18 seconds to bury the Nuggets in Game Four.
“They are a good team, no question about it, so we’re going to have to really focus and execute when we get there and try to get it in a tough environment.”
Should the Lakers close out the series in the tough environment of Denver, they will next face the second-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder who swept the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks in the opening round of the playoffs.
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank Pingue)
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Brazilian attacking midfielder Diego, who missed the 2009 final for Werder Bremen against winners Shakhtar Donetsk because he was suspended, added a third late in the second-half to give Argentinian coach Diego Simeone a trophy just months after he took over the hotseat.

Atletico’s victory also saw them break Barcelona’s record of successive wins in European competition as they recorded their 12th to break the record of 11 set in the 2002/03 Champions League campaign.

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Athletic Bilbao’s coach Marcelo Bielsa took responsiblity for the defeat.

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Turkish playmaker Ardi Turan found the Colombian, who completely fooled centreback Javi Martinez sending him the wrong way as he went the other before curling the ball into the top far left corner to double Atletico’s lead.

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Nike Air Jordan Shoes ShopSUMIRAGO, Italy (Reuters) - Mention the name Missoni, and most think of a fashion empire that revolutionized textile patterns, spawned the no-bra look on the catwalks, and is now a global brand that designs everything from sweaters to sheets to hotels.
But none of it would have happened had it not been for the 1948 London Olympics, where one kind of flame sparked another between Rosita Jelmini and Ottavio Missoni.
She was 16, going on 17, a shy Italian girl in London to improve her English. He was 27, a tall, strappingly handsome member of the Italian 400 meters hurdles team at the Games where the world was trying to put the devastation of war behind it.
“Our student seats were right near the changing rooms at Wembley Stadium. I saw him. He looked like he was 21 but I later found out that he was 27. He had an extraordinary running style,” Rosita, now 81, recalled in their home as Ottavio, now 91, sat next to her on an iconic Missoni zebra-patterned couch.
As a boy, Ottavio was a running wunderkind. In 1937, at the tender age of 16, he was the youngest member of Italy’s national team. That year in the 400 meters at a Milan event, he beat American Elroy Robinson, then the world record holder for the 880 yards.
Missoni ran in the 1938 European Championships, and won the 1939 Italian Championships and World Student Games.
Then the guns of war got in the way. Both the 1940 and 1944 games were cancelled. Ottavio, fighting on the Italian side in the Battle of El Alamein, was captured by the British and held as a prisoner of war for four years in Egypt.
“It wasn’t exactly a Club Med type of environment ideal for training,” he said, laughing as he leaned back on a Missoni pillow.
“I was …” And, like most couples who have been together for a lifetime, Rosita finishes her husband’s thought: “He likes to poke fun (at the English), saying that he was a guest of His Majesty the King of Britain”.
Indeed, if it were not for the luxurious surroundings, the covers of fashion magazines and signed photographs on the walls, and the hovering Bangladeshi butler in his crisp, white jacket, Ottavio and Rosita could be mistaken for any elderly couple sharing a park bench.
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“I started running again with the little that was left in me because naturally, after four years as a prisoner of war I was not in top physical form, but I must have had something left in me and I won the Italian (4 X 400) title and was chosen to go to the Olympics,” he said.
In 1948, much of Italy was still recovering from the war’s devastation; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the country was in its teething phase and for many, the London Olympics offered a badly needed chance to cheer national athletes. Retro Jordan Shoes
Few people had televisions in their homes. Most watched the Games in bars and shop windows or on newsreels in cinemas.
“Those were beautiful Olympic Games because everything was natural and spontaneous, not like now, when everything is inflated, blown out of proportion,” said Ottavio, who is known by everyone by his diminutive “Tai”.
After she first saw him run at Wembley, Rosita and her school mates were invited to lunch with the Italian athletes in Brighton.
“During the lunch I realized he was so funny. He was handsome but not only. He was clever and intelligent and with a great sense of humor, which has been very helpful in all our life,” Rosita said.
They married in 1953 and set up a small workshop making track suits in Gallarate, near Rosita’s home village, and later moved on to knitwear, presenting their first collection in Milan in 1958 at the dawn of what was to become known as Italy’s economic miracle.
“We started making a profit after 10 years of activity and that day I felt like the richest man in the world,” Ottavio said.
Their early work was spotted and supported by Anna Piaggi, an influential editor of the Italian fashion magazine Arianna; and another big break came in 1965 when they made a knitwear collection together with designer Emmanuelle Kahn.
“We tried to break the rules … we lived in very favorable times because it was the beginning of what then came to be called Pret-a-Porter,” Rosita said.
“High fashion was declining and there was this new thing, Ready-to-Wear, that was kicking off and we found ourselves in this situation in the early 1960s. With our 10 years of experience, we knew what we wanted to do and tried to find our own way,” she said.
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Then, in 1967, the battle of the bras really put them on the fashion map.
Missoni were invited to show at the Pitti Palace in Florence but before the models went out on the runways Rosita noticed that their bras were showing through their tops, ruining the intended color and pattern effect.
In the dressing room, she told the models to remove them but under the runway lighting their outfits became totally transparent and the incident caused a sensation.
“I didn’t think we were doing anything scandalous but they accused us of turning the Pitti Palace into the Crazy Horse,” she said, referring to the famous burlesque palace in Paris.
They were not invited to return the next year but the Florence bra incident became a cause célèbre and soon afterwards Missoni was on the covers of big name fashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Women’s Wear Daily and Bazaar.
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Today, the mamma and papa company Ottavio and Rosita founded on a shoestring has become a fashion dynasty run by their children Luca, Angela and Vittorio and some grandchildren.
Based in the northern Italian village of Sumirago and within sight of Monte Rosa, or pink mountain, on the Swiss-Italian border, it employs about 250 people and in 2011 had revenues of more than 150 million euros.
Rosita, who sports a small pigtail flowing down the back of her neck, is still active in the company, running the Missoni Home collection and travelling around the world for Missoni Hotel, a lifestyle hotel chain in collaboration with the Rezidor Hotel Group.
Missoni hotels have already opened in Edinburgh and Kuwait, and new ones are planned for Oman and Brazil.
Ottavio is still active. He participated in competitions for veteran athletes until he was 90 and last September he was due to be the oldest athlete at the European Masters Games in Italy, competing in the javelin, discus and shot put but he withdrew after he developed back pain.
He spends his time painting, swimming and exercising in his small private gym surrounded by his many athletic medals and fashion tributes.
“Sometimes they take me around as if I were a religious relic but I refrain from working miracles now,” he wrote in his autobiography “A Life on the Wool Line,” a play on words because in early races a strand of wool was used as finish tape.
Every year in July, the Missonis take their vacation on their boat along the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic, where Ottavio was born of Italian parents in what is now Dubrovnik. This year they will postpone their trip so they can watch the Games on television.
Asked if he would like to go to London to watch the Games, he said: “The desire is there but I lack ….”. And, once again, Rosita completed his thought, adding “the body”.
They clasped their hands, their veins forming a pattern not unlike one of their classic geometric designs and laughed, in unison, like a couple on a park bench remembering old times.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Ossian Shine)
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