This new-found pragmatism is likely to prove lasting.

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Michigan the home of the United Auto Workers and machine politics seems an odd place not just for Ms Granholm, but also for her message, a sort of new-age, policy-wonkish pragmatism.

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Russia's new pragmatism is set out in a leaked foreign-ministry paper.

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