Your stories reminded me that everyday America's greatness is bound up in the lives of the American people -- your hard work, your devotion to duty, your love for your children, and your determination to keep going, often in the face of enormous obstacles.

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What makes the picture work is its unflagging devotion to the play of gleam and shadow: to a vision of Hong Kong as a natural hotbed of treason and double cross.

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Nevertheless, and almost despite his father's best efforts, Frederick inherited extreme conscientiousness, a passionate devotion to duty and an even greater passion for hard work.

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