Frederick Hopkins, a medical doctor who had entered the Novitiate with Gerard in 1868, and whose suave manner had earned him the nickname of "the genteel Hop, " sat on the sofa cushion next to his and glanced at the page.

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The government of Uzbekistan in particular is likely to "drive a fairly hard bargain" in negotiations with the U.S. over moving military cargo over its territory, said Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

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