His rigour and enthusiasm ensured his daughter's love of books was no parlour game.

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Almost immediately afterwards, Moscow discovered a new favourite parlour game: who's next?

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But the weakening of Mr Fabius still gives a new twist to the left's favourite parlour game: who will be its 2007 presidential candidate?

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Of course it is just a parlour game now, but my predictions for Radio Foyle could turn out to be just as counterfactual in the end.

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All this makes for an interesting parlour game.

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Indeed, spotting mispriced securities seems to be the financial world's latest parlour game: Royal Bank of Canada was this week forced on to the back foot after one of its traders told a newspaper that it had mismarked government-agency and corporate bonds.

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At The Parlour, a popular pre-game (or pre-fight) watering hole, the Vice President of Marketing for Tecate beer was in his element, schmoozing with staffers, vendors and, what the heck, a couple of reporters.

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Viduka had a chance to make the game safe in the 72nd minute but he shot over the bar in the box from Ray Parlour's cross from the right.

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