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Although friends say there is a deep rift between the two men, Lake is circumspect about their competition. "Whatever the mythology," he says, "whenever we run into each other, we're very cordial." And he doesn't rule out a job for Holbrooke in an Obama Administration. "Would I say Dick can play no role? Absolutely not." Party leaders hope the two men can reunite behind a nominee. That would be the most comforting outcome for any Democratic President facing a crisis...
...been long enough now that we have not been at war ... Perhaps we can move from being cordial to being friendly.' NICOLAS SARKOZY, President of France, ahead of a bridge-building state visit to Britain with new wife Carla Bruni Numbers
...Some observers are looking for what one insider calls the Texas two-step: a cordial embrace of Bush by the candidate, combined with trash talk behind the scenes by campaign staff. Then the question is, do the two men just drift apart, like Gore and Clinton, or does McCain draw a sharp line. Former Bush advisor Dan Bartlett says there'll be sufficient natural distance between the two thanks to the positions McCain has taken on issues like Iraq or climate change. "It's not going to be a jolt in the campaign as opposed to a continuum," Bartlett says...
...bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...
...affair, sponsored by MSNBC and held on the campus of Cleveland State University, had most of the same features we have come to expect of the last round of Clinton-Obama debates: strong jabs, deep dives into health care policy, pointed arguments over the meaning of words-and another cordial, high-road finish...