The Seattle region is even beginning to recognise that it may, good heavens, have something to learn from vulgar Los Angeles.

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Ms Hirsi Ali is surely oversimplifying when she says that Islam's problems are almost entirely self-inflicted, with the implication that all the West need do is repeat the Pharisees' prayer (thank heavens we are not like those people) and go on fighting the good ideological fight.

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But the McLaren man came good in the end, overtaking Toyota's Timo Glock, who had stayed out on dry tires as the heavens opened, to snatch fifth with the checkered flag in sight.

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