Told by the vice principal they could sit wherever they pleased, the student and his pals plopped down under the sprawling branches of a shade tree in the campus courtyard.

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Sitting in the shade of a tree, a trickle of sweat running down my back, I ran my eyes across the land my friends and I had bought.

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Max and Tyler, two Scottish terriers, lie in the shade of a maple tree beneath a black granite memorial stone bearing a quote from William Wordsworth.

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His moment came in 1995 when he helped Mr Prodi launch the Olive Tree, gathering ex-communists, leftish Catholics, greens and a sprinkling of socialists in its shade.

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