Because the league struck equipment deals with grade-C companies, the players were stuck with Pop Warner-esque helmets and clunky Pony shoes.

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Mr Black said there could well be people - from foreign agents to home-grown lunatics - who might "want a pop at C" the name the head of MI6 is given (the director general of MI5 has not been known by the soubriquet "K" since the 1940s.).

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The good stuff--dryish, refined, compulsively drinkable--has nothing to do with cold duck or cough-medicine-y, five bucks a pop, small "c" "champagne": Different grapes, different process, a whole different mind-set.

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Among those detained were students, lawyers, reporters and even members of a pop group who were thought to have links with the DHKP-C.

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