He seems to have grasped that he has an image problem. He has hired a new, affable spokesman and is courting foreign journalists for the first time.

他似乎知道了他得注意形象，雇了一个新的平易近人的发言人，同时第一次向外国记者传递善意。

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Time is not on the affable Mr Sullivan's side.

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He has hired a new, affable spokesman and is courting foreign journalists for the first time.

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"In fact I've gone out of my way time and again to point out that he's a perfectly affable fellow, and he's not stupid and he's not mean, " she says.

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