Having spent most of his first two years on the job absorbed in the task of stabilizing Iraq, he was now ready to actually manage the Pentagon, so it was natural to align himself with the management principles of the new administration.

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For a time, Hanwell Snr made his own reluctance to sit appear quite natural, busying himself with the hot oil and dismissing certain chips as not fit to be thrown in the fryer if his only son was to eat them.

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Mr Brown is a more natural and skilled politician, and has sought to portray his rival as a Harvard snob and himself as a man of the people.

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Pouring himself some coffee, he sat at the table and took stock, his natural analytic bent slowly fighting to re-establish dominance.

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