But President Bush and the Europeans tried a good-cop, bad-cop routine and Iran ran circles round them both.

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But, when Congress crosses the line into undermining the promise of the president's chief diplomat, the good-cop-bad-cop routine becomes a liability.

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The CIA must now conduct interrogations according to the rules of the Army Field Manual, which prohibits coercive techniques, threats and promises, and the good-cop bad-cop routines used in police stations throughout America.

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On the face of it, at such a sensitive time for the Palestinians diplomatically, it would seem that they would want to keep their traditional good cop-Fatah, bad cop-Hamas routine going and have Hamas take the credit for the recent attacks.

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On Wednesday, Obama and Netanyahu offered a "good cop-bad cop" approach to Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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The good cop-bad cop routine of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin continues to remind Western investors of the hope and disillusionment of this post-Soviet market and its absent rule of law.

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The standouts include Amanda Peet, as an intelligent, self-respecting whore, Rebecca De Mornay, as a faded movie star who still has her pride, and Ray Liotta and John Cusack, who play bad cop and good ex-cop superbly.

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He says that many in Taiwan will conclude that Beijing, with its current blandishments, is simply in a "good-cop" phase and will revert to being a "bad cop" sooner or later.

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Under Strauss-Kahn the IMF became the good cop to the EU's bad, which imposed harsher conditions on weaker European economies.

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