Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.

Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: This week, we've been treated to the increasingly familiar sight of former NBA star and provocateur Dennis Rodman attending events in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Sent 2: It's his fourth trip in less than 12 months.
Sent 3: On Tuesday, an angry Rodman defended his visit in a CNN interview straight from Pyongyang, at one point saying to "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo, "I don't give a rat's ass what the hell you think ..."Sent 4: in response to question about Kenneth Bae, an American detained in North Korea.
Sent 5: When will we tire of this circus?
Sent 6: In case you don't watch cable news, you might miss that the media really loves this kind of thing.
Sent 7: No story about North Korea is too weird to go unreported, even if there is no real information to disseminate.
Sent 8: Recall the recent rumor that Kim Jong Un's uncle was executed by being fed to hungry dogs, which most likely was started as satire on Chinese social media but was at first reported widely in the media (CNN was unable to confirm and did not report the story).
Sent 9: In media discourse, North Korea is the classic enemy.
Sent 10: The regime's injustices, quirks and dysfunctions are reassuring to Americans that their own country is just the opposite: Normal, well-functioning, a land of peace and liberty.
Sent 11: But add in Rodman to the North Korea story, and it's bound to produce eye-popping headlines: The Weird American Athlete Goes to Weird Country story is just too easy not to cover.
Sent 12: Rodman himself seems to be thriving on finding a strange smidgen of relevance through his visits to North Korea (and perhaps a Paddy Power paycheck).
Sent 13: Though often described as quite shy, he has always enjoyed challenging the values of Middle America.
Sent 14: North Korea is providing him a new avenue to be in the spotlight.
Sent 15: The most passive player in this tragicomedy is Rodman's home country, the United States.
Sent 16: The U.S. State Department has deployed the rhetorical equivalent of an embarrassed teenager whose dad has shown up to dance at his prom.
Sent 17: Something along the lines of "this has nothing to do with us" is what the State Department has said with every one of Rodman's trip.
Sent 18: Last winter,the State Department criticized Rodman's timing as it followed a nuclear test and rocket launch.
Question: Why is the US considered a passive player in the story of Rodman and North Korea?.

Output: Something along the lines of "this has nothing to do with us" is what the State Department has said with every one of Rodman's trip.

Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.
Sent 2: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week.
Sent 3: Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job.
Sent 4: The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had "done what I had to."Sent 5: He told the club's official Web site: "It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings.
Sent 6: "Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team.
Sent 7: Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo.
Sent 8: He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible.
Sent 9: However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team.
Sent 10: "Fortunately we believe that there is time.
Sent 11: The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager.
Sent 12: We are fighting for important things."Sent 13: Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February.
Sent 14: Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season.
Sent 15: Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham.
Question: What sentiments did sporting director Ramon Rodriguez express in his statement about the removal of coach Manolo Jimenez?.

Output: Duty and gratitude.

Input: Consider Input: Paragraph- Sent 1: The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity.
Sent 2: Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions.
Sent 3: The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil.
Sent 4: It was the last act of the evening.
Sent 5: Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness.
Sent 6: But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success.
Question: How long did the last act of the evening take before it was completed?.
Output: 3 hours.