They might be the warmest people in the world, who would lavish on their adopted child the sort of palpable love advertised in greeting cards and on the collars of stuffed puppies.

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But the fact remains that without the sort of tough love that America alone can bestow, Israel will probably never be able to overcome its settler movement and make the deal that could win it acceptance in the Arab world.

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Clearly, these are the sort of phrases that Americans and their government love to hear.

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Since both inflation and the strong real are caused by growth, they are the sort of problems that many governments elsewhere would love to have.

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The housewife had not even had the lawyer's love of classical music, having never enjoyed music of any sort in the past.

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Rounded out by Nik Pfeifer on guitar and Brian Boesen on drums, Love in October is the sort of group that fans of Top 40 pop-punk have longed for.

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