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3.In the old days, presidential races were one-year events.
4.For example, in the presidential election last year, both Al Gore and George W. Bush tried to shed their wooden image by making wisecracks before their voters.
6.In the run-up to presidential and parliamentary elections next year, Mr Erdogan would do well to avoid fanning that mood.
7.Another likely 2008 presidential contender and a former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, has advocated spending $7 billion a year on computerized medical records.
8.Heinz Fischer, who won elections earlier this year, takes over the presidency on Thursday. Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel assumed the presidential duties when Klestil fell ill.
9.Yet the 78-year-old ex-paratrooper, who made it into the 2002 presidential run-off against Jacques Chirac, still wields a baleful influence over the body politic.
10.Tim: I would love to, but next day I will have to get up very early to attend the New Year National Flag Raising Ceremony in the Presidential Square.
