That afternoon with the mobsters, Delacruz told Lagrimita that he could not help him.

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When he returned to his homeland a few years later, however, the United States could not help him.

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For a long time, I felt like I had failed because I could not find any way to help him get better.

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But what ultimately broke Milosevic was the realization that NATO would not fracture and Russia could do nothing to help him.

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Everyone around him was trying to help him in some way, but he could not be consoled and only kept crying.

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He intimated that filling hotels is a matter of profile, and smiled when it was pointed out to him that the presence of so many Asian dignitaries could not but help put his place on the map.

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Try as he might, he could not this last week help envisioning the inward lives of the older men to either side of him, doing this day after day.

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"China's leaders saw him not just as an influential player in Hong Kong, but also someone who could help rally local business leaders to their causes, " says a trade consultant.

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The best intentioned home secretary, say penal reform groups, could not help but base his decisions on public opinion and political expediency, whatever the merits of the cases before him.

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Not only was it for a good cause, but it would help him in whatever way it could.

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