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...Higgins more resembled an episode of Benny Hill....
...In Jack Benny's words, "Oh, really?" Brown also trumpets his success at the start of 2004 in forecasting that equities would go up, but by less than in 2003 (when they rose 26 per cent)....
...At hundreds of tables, 6,000 contestants toyed with their clay chips, filling the huge hall with a sound like a swarm of demented crickets....
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