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Tonight we may very well have seen ring history in the making in the form of a sensational young welterweight Rodriguez and his impressive K.O. over the experienced campaigner Gordon.

Mayawati s shrewd alliances, including with some members of the upper castes, which propelled her to power in Uttar Pradesh, give her party a fighting chance to win a number of other seats as well.

But a new book, Private Equity at Work, by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, explains exactly how a few people have become immensely rich through the shrewd strategic use of debt.

Obasanjo has made it clear that Atiku Abubakar, the Vice President and the arrowhead of the anti third term coalition, will not succeed him. But this has not stopped Abubakar, a formidable political operator, from launching his presidential bid, despite uncertainty over whether he will fight it out with his boss for control of the PDP machinery or decamp to another political party.