He gave me tremendous insight to the employment challenges for the population he was serving and had a vision that I wanted to see come alive.

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"I have to cast the right people to make those characters come alive and boy this time did I do it, " he said.

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"What was really a ghost town when I stopped by here on my reconnaissance the other day is starting to come alive, " said peacekeeping commander Peter Cosgrove on Tuesday.

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Though I can only hope we keep these stores alive and well within the years to come, bookstores will undoubtedly go the way of a record shop in the future.

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Then, I actually had to do the work, growing their businesses and pushing their management to be excellent and come alive in their own day jobs.

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My mother died 23 years ago, and were she alive today, I think she would be taking note of the remarkable place to which we've come in this historic moment.

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