The sight of him standing there with his sleeves pushed up and his cloth over his shoulder and his look of readiness all this made me smile, and the smile that came back to me seemed to stream out of the glass and into my arms, my chest, my face, my blood.

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The two nations are at odds, primarily over Iran's nuclear program, but there is a standing offer for talks.

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There's a long-standing controversy among independent planners over which is better: those who charge fees or those who are compensated solely by the commissions their clients generate.

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But on the other hand, there is the long-standing opposition of judges to any whiff of torture and questions over whether the UK has got anywhere near to the assurances European judges want.

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Neil McEvoy - a lecturer at the college who is standing as a Plaid Cymru councillor for Cardiff in the forthcoming local elections - said there had been concerns over the way money had been spent.

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All Americans should know that one act of kindness extended to a family of a soldier, a sailor, or a Marine, a Coast Guardsman, reverberates across water, over the mountains, and through the deserts, into the heart of the warrior who is standing there alone, thinking as much about his family as his family is thinking about him or her.

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But Mr Ward, who was elected to Parliament in 2010, said it was "completely fair" that he was being called to a meeting with his leader and acknowledged there was a "difference of opinion" over whether he had infringed the party's standing orders.

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