Now I would like to address the diametrically opposite concept: kindness in the office.

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At 8 o'clock this morning a familiar Jaguar was parked in the middle of Whitehall opposite the entrance to the Wales Office.

BBC: Welsh Secretary walks and talks

There are, by my count, six members of the House of Representatives on the Republican side and one on the Democratic side, who were defeated in the November election, either for reelection or for another office, who were replaced by someone of the opposite party.

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Two-thirds want the next president to remove most U.S. troops from Iraq within a few months of taking office, numbers that appear to put Republican presidential candidate John McCain on the opposite side of most voters on that issue.

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Republicans hold the opposite status in California, where Democrats won supermajorities in the Legislature last fall and hold every statewide office.

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Most recently, he stars opposite Bruce Willis in the creepy ghost thriller "The Sixth Sense, " which has topped the box office the past two weeks.

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She could not drive to such an office in her own car, or even sit in it if that might mean mingling with the opposite sex.

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