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Chinese Crested from the UK wins the latest World's Ugliest Dog contest.
While promoting "To Rome with Love" the filmmaker said watching his own moves kind of makes him cringe.
It's the flip side of Moody's big bank downgrades earlier this week.
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Expect to save at least $20 on certain seats.
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Yoga can "defy the imagination," he wrote in one of his latest columns.
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