They got him to return to Alcoholics Anonymous, and, when Brenner found out that he was a devout Christian, he urged him to return to church.
But more than that, he left his friends and family happy with the time -- and the work -- that they got from him.
But then this was New York and somehow he had such passion for his work, this work of talking about his city, that most New Yorkers couldn't help but appreciate him (until they finally got fed up with him and turned him out after three terms).
Detectives tracked down a number of ex-girlfriends, who all described a similar pattern of behaviour when they got involved with him.
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Thanks to his caring attitude and unrelenting tenacity (I think he badgered Interpol until they got sick of him) she was a free (though barely alive) woman in less than a year.
They squealed, they pressed close with their microphones, they stayed up late to be with him in his hotel and they got up early the next morning to jog alongside him at dawn.
The talent around him got worse, and they expected him to be more of playmaker.
And then, if they get tired of him, they've got this big bull of a running back, Deuce McAllister, who can just give them the strong pounding running game.
They got fed up with him and they're bringing in guys who I would say are decent bowlers but nothing special.
When they had eaten she got him to his bed, but an hour later he was shouting and she went to him.
He is on his apprenticeship this year in MotoGP and that doesn't mean to say that he can't get some good results, but they have got to come to him rather than him pushing for them.
Around that time, his wife-to-be Sandy, a Japanese-American friend of the family who grew up in a neighboring town, told him she wouldn't move down from San Francisco to be with him unless they got married, and he wouldn't get married unless he had a job.
Ask Jeff Quon, the California SWAT officer whose steamy sext messages sent from his work device got him fired after they were read by his employer.
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Flintoff suddenly switched to full attack mode, and the sprinkling of spectators got some reward as they watched him hook Ntini and hit two booming drives off Steyn that raced to the boundary boards.
His replacement, Murray Wilson, a Calgary investment banker, called questions about his CanWest predecessors "irrelevant" and got upset when they were posed to him.
If they chose to, they could even limit him to one start in each round of the playoffs if they got to the World Series, which a Washington team has not won since 1924, its only victory in the Fall Classic 88 years ago.
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"The person who was 'babysitting' him, as they called it, got away, but he was arrested very quickly, " Kelly said, praising the detective work.
If nobody makes an offer for him, hey, at least they got the services of a top-flight leftback at 10 pence on the pound.
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It simply means that they can't haul Suspect Sam back for another grilling unless they've got genuinely new stuff to talk to him about.
"A lot of the photographs I've got were of him smiling - but they were of no interest to anybody at the time because everyone wanted to see the mean, moody, sexy man, " he says.
In a 1984 issue of "Amazing Spider-Man, " the webhead ended up putting on the iconic original Fantastic Four costume ... and they got around the problem of his mask by having him wear a brown paper bag on his head.
But in the end, Obama got four black votes out of five and they propelled him to an outright majority of the overall vote: 55 percent to Clinton's 27 percent and Edwards' 18 percent.
Now, when HSBC got rid of him, who do you think they replaced him with?
They cut his pay by more than one third because they ordered him to go back to Iraq, and he got psychiatric treatment instead.
He got TfL to unregister his two additional keys and they asked him to set up new accounts for each key with different email and card details.
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