A few years later, he drew pictures for the first "Little Bear" books, written by Else Minarik.

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This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

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A few years later, that angry little manat the school house door thought it'd be a good ideaand ran for president.

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"Is it calmer now? Are people a little less active than they were a few months ago or about a year ago?

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And a few years after that, somebody shothis little brother, too, only he wasin a hotel kitchen.

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But for now at least those days seem over. With Ankara working hard to improve relations with Syria,Iraq and even the prime minister's visit to Tehran, few people see little chance of a renewal of that alliance anytime soon.

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