General Motors is beaming with pride over the Chevrolet Cruze and Sonic.

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This is the moment when General de Gaulle restored the pride of France, the moment he created the founding myth of the post war French republic.

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This sort of humility might let Mr Brown appear to participate in the general pain: surrendering his pride might be a better form of kindred suffering than the sleepless overwork that often leaves him looking greyly gaunt.

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