Friedel is the latest in a lineage of great goalkeepers who have played long after the useful life of an outfield player is up.

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Many Argentines believe that the IMF, having been criticised for backing the fixed exchange rate long past its useful life, was slower and sterner with Mr Duhalde than with his predecessors.

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In his long life Harold Stassen did many useful things.

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