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The 40-year-old will not start against the rival New York Rangers Tuesday night, but he did not rule out backing up Johan Hedberg, who has started every game in his absence.
WSJ: Devils G Brodeur practices after missing 12 games
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Believing that the league is unattractive, amateurishly run and constantly haemorrhages its best players, Nigerian football fans - those backing Kano Pillars aside - have not come out in numbers to attend games.
BBC: Is satellite TV killing African football?
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But - just to confirm that not all of Tony Blair's greatest hits have gone out of fashion, he gave his enthusiastic backing to the euro - a sound that has not been heard since, well, Lord Mandelson was last in government.
BBC: Brown unity show with Blairites
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But shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg accused the government of being "out of touch" on school sport by not backing the two-hour target.
BBC: Boris Johnson urges two hours of PE a day
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She could not even secure the backing required for a formal debate (30 delegates out of some 3, 000).
ECONOMIST: Neither comrades nor spouses
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The Sadrists -- who say the constitution does not spell out a process for voting on international agreements -- are backing a draft law calling for a two-thirds majority for such agreements to pass.
CNN: Security pact runs into discord in Iraqi parliament
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He rolls up the window and gives all his attention to the car, to backing it out of its tight spot and moving it so as not to come in contact with the van, as if there were no more to be said or managed.
NEWYORKER: Amundsen
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Backing away from squeezing every last nanogram of value out of human attention might not be such a bad thing.
FORBES: Warren Buffett, Peter Thiel and the Return to Zero-Sum Economics
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Disclosures: While trying to work out the ethics of backing Kickstarter campaigns one is also reporting on, the author has not contributed to any of these campaigns.
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And that has added to the frustration over, for example, Mr Putin's backing for Syria's government or a senior Russian general's statement that the country did not rule out the possibility of a nuclear first strike against missile-defence sites.
ECONOMIST: Russia and America