Yet it seemed to his many friends that he must have managed it, somehow.
He has mobilised his many friends on Capitol Hill and in America's Jewish community, and is allowing his aides to say he will fight the administration if he has to.
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"The messages and the outpouring of support from the communities of Denbigh, Caerwys and Wrexham have been incredible, we have been so touched by the warmth of feeling from his many friends, " said Mr Gallagher's father.
He drives an hour each way to his job as a mechanic, but says many of his friends, "had to go in the military to get out of town, " and get a job.
Our thoughts go out to his family and many friends, who have asked for privacy at this time.
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But many of his friends are still sleeping outside, because they can't prove their age.
Musa says many of his albino friends fled their rural homes after being chased out by locals.
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Eisenstein was lucky to avoid the camps, in which so many of his friends suffered and died.
Mohammad Uzman's(ph) home was also destroyed, many of his friends and neighbors died and he was forced to flee.
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Like many of his friends, Danu initially took photographs for his own collection.
But unlike many of his friends, he has no illusions about making it as a veejay, a video disk jockey.
Many of his friends were in gangs but he wanted a different life and volunteered for the Manchester City community Kickz programme.
Many of his friends from university are in exactly the same position.
Moreover, his friends include many foreign governments, which do not even want to think about what would happen were Mr Wahid to fail.
Many of his friends would not bring their money or talents to the aid of the city if it meant running for office.
Many of his friends entered their names and gave a good account of themselves but in the end the three prizewinners were all trained wrestlers.
But as many of his friends and advisors have ruefully noted over the years, Bush never learned how to translate his personal views into policy.
He had also phoned many of his police friends and his former bosses, including the secretary of state, on whose security detail he had briefly worked.
Les Lawson, secretary of the official Liverpool Supporters Club, made it inside the ground in time for the game but said many of his friends did not.
My dad and his friends, many of whom are glad to be Americans now, grew up in a nation that had just changed hands from Ottoman to English.
He co-wrote "Tropic Thunder" based on an idea he had in 1987, when many of his friends were making war movies, he recalls in the film's production notes.
Lagat, who was born in Kenya and became a U.S. citizen in 2004, said he has found that many of his friends have psychological hang-ups about taking long breaks.
It popped into my head last week in Bangkok when a young Thai musician told me that many of his hipster friends were obsessing over stock prices and swapping tips.
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He said that many of his friends had been up to see him in Salisbury and that the support of his local rugby community had been "fantastic since my accident".
But Mansfield and his friends had many music-business connections.
Since then, he says he has racked up half a billion dollars in sales and that many of his friends are fleeing other careers and starting to join him in the industry.
It was reported that Mark had shown signs of strain with pending litigation and an isolated lifestyle as a result of many of his close friends losing money in the Madoff scam.
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