He would tread, a little bird-like man with hands folded and head bowed, along narrow paths that threaded through the jungle-forests of central Cambodia.

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Maybe, though, it is just a strange little wet bird.

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God Bless you and may the bird of Paradise fly just a little higher while you stand on your soapbox tomorrow.

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But it is only a glimpse, and before I know it the little bird has flown away.

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Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.

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The message of this remarkable work seems to be that while the country strives to reach the stature of a mythical bird, the everyday reality of indigenous peoples is little better than that of insects.

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"I like how little performance there is in a person chatting at a table or just in a bird song and how it can also contain such depth, honest, and real soul, " he says.

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From our place to Fort Smith was about seventy miles as a bird flies, taking you past beautiful Mount Nebo where we had a little summer house so Mama could get away from the mosquitoes, and also Mount Magazine, the highest point in Arkansas, but it might as well have been seven hundred miles for all I knew of Fort Smith.

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The company's light-weight "Little Bird" helicopters, with gunmen hanging out the side doors, are a familiar icon of Blackwater's presence in Baghdad.

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The producers were reportedly this close to casting a couple of six-footers as Bird and Magic and filling out the cast with little people.

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