Thus reinforced, its operations against al Qaeda would become a model that Petraeus would cite, as the brigade pushed into the areas where al Qaeda fighters and their allies had found sanctuary.

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The other is the Bill Clinton model: pick someone, Al Gore, who reinforces your message - new, young, different.

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The model used by Professor Nutt et al. only looks at harm, and it weighs the harm of alcohol to others more than it does to oneself.

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Another model of diplomatic behavior: Prince Al-Waleed, the Saudi multibillionaire with the biggest stake in Citigroup , never insisted on a board seat and was a benign investor remaining in the background.

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"All these issues they might not address the political issues but they address the basic infrastructure of how a country should move on, having implemented the best international model that we could go for, " al Khalifa said.

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