“Bush Won”

Although state officials have certified Buchanan as the victor, they’ve promised an audit of the voting machines. But don’t get your hopes up: As in 2000, state election officials aren’t even trying to look impartial. To oversee the audit, the state has chosen as its “independent” expert Professor Alec Yasinsac of Florida State University – a Republican partisan who appeared on the steps of the Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 recount battle wearing a “Bush Won” sign.

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The fastest learner has been Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez

He promised to change the living standards radically in 800 days. He and his young team of economists – trained in the city of London – sure had learnt their marketing lessons well! To encourage voting, Simeon even made the nation indulge in tambola through mobile phones to win exciting prizes.

After all, all countries cannot be like Australia where voting is compulsory and everyone who doesn’t vote pays a $20 fine. No wonder they have a 95% voter turn-out. Till it isn’t made compulsory, we all need to open our marketing books to pull out some new tricks, to make people come & vote for us!

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We took a number of market defining steps towards the last quarter

According to Mr. Pawan Munjal, Managing Director, Hero Honda Motors, “We took a number of market defining steps towards the last quarter, the impact of which could not be fully realised in the last year. Coupled with an even stronger pipeline of initiatives including eight new launches in 2006-07, we look forward to consolidating our leadership in two wheeler industry.”

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Wars, after all, decide not who’s right but what’s left

Pardon the cliché, but my visit kept on bringing memories of “A Tale of Two Cities” to my mind. They’ve had the best of times and the worst of times, and the hardships that conceal the lustrous history of these kindred metropolises bewilders and beguiles even the most casual of onlookers.Bound together as they are by the acrimonious thread of tumult, these two Russian cities with not entirely different histories are steeling themselves as they usher in a new era, a chapter soiled not by the blood of innocents but by the bloom of a fresh start. "Wars, after all, decide not who’s right but what’s left . Spasiba, Gennadi!" He smirked knowingly and quipped in his clipped and limited English “Dasvidanya! Do come back again!” I might just take him up on that offer…

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