The sky is blue, the air is crisp and the leaves are aflame with gold, crimson and orange.

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Last week also saw the technology world aflame with news of the latest iPhone arrival.

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Tomorrow President Obama visits my home state because so much of it has been aflame of late.

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Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.

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Cape Cod is like a fantasised view of New England, a peninsula covered in trees aflame with colour in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shading perfect lawns and whitewashed fences.

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When the wine is hot, carefully set it aflame.

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Which didn't prevent members of the press and pundits from proclaiming, all the rest of the week, that Mr. Romney had embarked on a political attack while the world was aflame and the president embroiled in the crisis.

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Paris may be known for the soft rose light of its afternoons, but at night its monuments are set aflame by a warm glow that is far closer to candlelight than the bright white spotlights that ruin so many cities.

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