Under the pressures of top-flight management, Graham's public persona changed from good-humoured charmer to dour disciplinarian.

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At the Bolton Arena on Saturday, groups of Asians waved union jacks and engaged in good-humoured banter with Bailey's voluble contingent.

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Though generally good-humoured, his occasionally brusque responses revealed him to be a man who does not suffer fools - or impertinent reporters - gladly.

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The trick for Mr Klima now will be to seize the limelight, chair a good-humoured summit, and so end the presidency on a high note.

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Old chestnuts such as Islam vs the West, and the Role of Faith in an Economic Crisis, have had their day out with much good-humoured heckling and post-show audience debate at the bar.

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In a fleet of cars, they all made the journey to the weigh-in, where the usual shouts of "In-ger-land" were mixed in with good-humoured banter with some Kessler supporters, who'd dressed up in viking gear for the afternoon.

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It was all very good-humoured.

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With Mr Paisley in a newly benign mood witness the old bigot's unprecedented and apparently good-humoured meeting on October 9th with Archbishop Sean Brady, the Catholic primate of Ireland and Mr Adams desperate for a breakthrough that would bolster his party's flagging prospects in the Irish election, the conditions for a deal exist.

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