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  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiares", 1st century BC...
• POLITICAL NEWS Margaret Thatcher has been awarded The Order of Merit.
  This means that she will no longer be known as "That fascist bitch-cow Thatcher" but instead as "That fascist bitch-cow Lady Thatcher"....
• Unlike great thinkers and great artists, the most effective political leaders must often yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise.
• It is better to be a has-been than one who never was.
• Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.