The new GOP charm offensive also underscores the limitations of the president's previous strategy, which centered on using public pressure to win Republican cooperation, not negotiations with lawmakers.

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Our two countries should seek to learn from each other through exchanges and achieve win-win progress through cooperation.

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Eric Prokopi, 38, said he would surrender the 70 million-year-old Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton, known as "Ty, " and give up any claims to six other dinosaurs and various other bones in a cooperation deal that might win him leniency from charges that carry a potential prison sentence of up to 17 years.

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It could build a sense of cooperation, and, eventually, win new friends for the President.

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We took several years to enter W.W.II, but once we entered, we did so with the full cooperation of all but diehard conscientious objectors, and we did so with a clear desire to not only win the war, but win the peace.

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