As the breeze whipped the snow in little maelstroms of white, I stopped halfway and tilted my face to the cloudless, sapphire-blue sky.

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And though there is little agreement between the White House and Pelosi on the Iraq war, Snow said Bush hopes the conditions in Iraq will improve to the point that both sides can reach more common ground.

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The new line combined classic princesses like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with newer characters like Ariel from The Little Mermaid.

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There are only so many times any little girl can re-enact the worlds of Belle, Ariel, Cinderella and Snow White.

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Though metropolises like New York may be used to the white stuff, London tends to get little more than a dusting of snow on most winters, which made the 10.0 inches or so of snowfall across the capital all the more startling on Monday.

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