That mention of the front row brings me to my new room-mate, Geoff Cross.

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She was further encouraged when her room-mate married an online match.

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My last room-mate was also a prop - Moray Low.

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In high school, Maples started writing video games for PCs and then went to Stanford where his room-mate was Joe Liemandt, who founded client-server software maker, Trilogy Software, in Austin.

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When I asked my old room-mate and former England keeper David Seaman what his ideal game was, I thought he'd say it would be having loads to do without letting any goals in.

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In the early 1950s young Mr Andre went off to Phillips Academy in Andover, and then on to New York City where he shared a tiny, cold-water apartment in Little Italy with his old college room-mate, Hollis Frampton, a photographer.

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But there is no room in the starting XV for his club-mate Alasdair Strokosch, with Robinson sticking with the all-Glasgow back-row of Kelly Brown, Johnnie Beattie and John Barclay.

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His time trialling needs room for improvement to push for a podium place, as does that of team-mate Juan Miguel Mercado, the other major hope in the general classification, who has so far failed to live up to his early promise.

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Samuels's century was greeted by a cacophony of noise from the vocal crowd but he ran all the way to the dressing room as soon as he reached three figures to give 19-year-old team-mate Pollard some batting practice.

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