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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian The sweetheart deal |
 | | Sales of their third album, 2001's White Blood Cells, have reached a respectable 1m, which is also the figure in dollars they were alleged to have received in return for signing to London-based label XL two months after the insanity of that first visit. |
 | | Small wonder Jack was given a part as a deserting soldier turned wandering minstrel in Cold Mountain, the forthcoming American civil war film directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law. |
 | | The White Stripes are never seen dressed in anything other than red or white, with black accessories, and apply a strict minimalist ethos to their art, which in Jack's mind all revolves around the number three. |
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