The 45-year-old construction company owner Pieter Odendaal says he cannot remember what happened on the night that Mosoko "John" Rampuru was physically attached by a length of wire to the back of Odendaal's pickup truck, and dragged to his death through the streets of Sasolburg.

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We'll cut the fly-by-wire controls that lead straight back to a dashboard in Whitehall.

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Making us mangle wire hangers to activate blindly some tiny reset hole in the back?

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At the Wagah border checkpoint in Punjab, picnicking families gather to gape and wave to Pakistanis waving back from the other side of the barbed wire.

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The stock fell off a cliff as the report hit the wire, falling all the way to 52 cents before moving back up to 62 cents by the closing bell.

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Glamorgan drew with Surrey while rivals Worcestershire fought back to beat Middlesex at Lord's, sending the promotion battle to the wire.

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In contrast to the barbed-wire and concrete barriers behind which the Americans live in Baghdad, their Kurdish allies are strikingly lax back home.

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Dwek had been charged with bank fraud by the feds back in 2006, which should have given Cammarano and Schaffer reason to wonder if Dwek was wearing a wire as part of a deal with the government.

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