Jonsi wasted no time: "Well, let's go see them, " he said.

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But the mayor, not to mention those 1.1m children, may well rue the time and political capital he wasted last year on barmy plans to relocate baseball stadiums and make New Yorkers polite.

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Time wasted, reputation tarnished, money not well spent these are all by-products of creativity gone awry.

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Worcestershire wasted little time in polishing Division Two champions Sussex off for 237 on the third morning and were going well on 81-1 in reply.

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