He also irked his manager by claiming the prospect of early retirement had crossed his mind, by making fairly regular trips back to Argentina and by speaking of a longing to be with his family in his homeland.

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The hordes of journalists who have descended on Cyprus have found a country longing to be out of the media glare.

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That's precisely what so many have found in Kinkade's art: a powerfully nostalgic longing for the way it ought to be, a break from the daily grind and the thousand disappointments that drag us down.

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Norman Mailer, meeting him in 1968 at a fundraiser in Harvard, found him drooping and baggy-eyed, longing to be rescued.

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So I see the flurry of interest in this rumor as being more about our primal longing for leaders who appeal to our deeply-held sense of what a leader should be.

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At heart, Saavedra is just a simple man of the people, deeply concerned for the young son who lives with him and longing to be reconciled with his estranged wife.

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