By showing him how to make an omelet (or stitch a simple hem), I hoped he would also learn how to be a better man, one who could look after his own needs instead of expecting his girlfriend to do it for him.

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But how will his delegates react tonight when they have a chance to express their feelings for the man many of them still think would be a better president than Bush?

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Who better to be president of the greatest of all capitalist nations than a man who got rich by being a brilliant capitalist?

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It had better be, if John wants to keep his job--Green is a man accustomed to having things his way.

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"I am sure there's no better man to handle the pressure than Padraig and I fully expect him to be a force on the team, " said the US Open winner.

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The man who will soon become the City's top regulator wants customers to be given a much better sense of what they are paying for, and how they are paying.

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Is Mr Uribe to be taken at his own estimation, as the man who is uprooting terrorism not just by employing a bigger and better army but also by strengthening democracy?

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The director, Carlos Carrera, turns out to be a man of serious intent, portraying the Catholic church as a fallible institution, inextricably linked, for better or worse, to all levels of Mexican society.

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But the health secretary told the BBC he had no "aspiration" to be party leader and said he believed Mr Brown was "a man for these times" who was doing a better job "than I could do it or anyone else".

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