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After skulking around in political exile for several years, Sanford staged a sort of a comeback on Tuesday, winning the Republican nomination for his old House seat.

The other Dade prisoner who wanted to be Jessica's mommy -- they staged a sort of custody battle -- stole an elderly man's checks with an accomplice, who then beat the man to death.

Indeed, a bustling after-work social scene will be critical to attracting the younger renters whom Rockrose covets, said Mr. Elghanayan, who for similar reasons staged a sort of multiweekend pool party on a lot near his new building last summer.

In 1729, the French government staged a sort of lottery to help amortize some of the royal debt.

Yesterday, they staged a sort of love-in at a UCL Council meeting dressed as Royal Dutch Shell, BP, and the UCL Provost, Michael Arthur, to highlight the "incestuous" relationship between the university and the fossil fuel industry.

In "Animals," there is a performance-artist rat who stages a sort of "The Rat Is Present" (a spoof on Marina Abramović) and a rat podcaster voiced by Marc Maron.

It was staged as a sort-of competition between the venue's two opposing stages, one armed with drums and amps, the other with tables, mics, and laptops.

Now it's, 'Please, Elton John, must we continue this charade?' " When the lights come up, the knowing, sad-sack narrator (Bob Martin, who also co-wrote the book with Don McKellar) is settled in an armchair at the side of the stage, a sort of Mr. Rogers of drama queens.

That substantial team and all the resources they have are now being put into a plethora of new projects, including Sims on Stage (a sort of virtual karaoke), Sims Carnival (a build-your-own game environment) and The Sims 3, predicted to be the game's most realistic iteration yet.

Though she laughs to herself as she says it, Servideo tells me the platform has become her "digital stage," a sort of open mic for the fictional people she conjures.

Robinson says the 1990 agreement adds gasoline to the long-held fear that CSE is staged to become a sort of "Panopticon," reporting all criminal wrong-doing that comes across its path.