That first Yilmaz-Ciller coalition having broken up, Mrs Ciller then went into her ill-fated alliance with the Islamists, which the generals eventually vetoed.

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The 62-year-old is seriously ill with prostate cancer and went to the Palace last month to receive his award.

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And a number of other things went wrong with the bank, including its ill-conceived takeover of ABN Amro, the world's largest banking merger at the time, and its expansion into American mortgage markets.

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He went for a second, and now ill-fated, loan spell with Milan in a bid to keep his place in Fabio Capello's squad for South Africa, with every indication he would add to his record 115 international caps for an outfield player.

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With Lang waiting in the wings, Isaac Stern went out onstage and announced that Watts was ill but that no one would be disappointed by the Chinese teen-ager who was about to play.

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