The closest thing to a knife fight has been Mr Gingrich's portrayal of Mr Romney as a callous wrecker of humble livelihoods.

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Until a decade ago America's medical profession had indeed been laggard and callous in providing pain relief to patients.

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But it is a measure of how little inclined the leadership is to trust the market's callous hand operating through such things as mergers, sales and, especially, bankruptcies.

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And in one especially callous episode, Jobs refused to give founding stock options to one of Apple's earliest employees, even after a fellow employee intervened and offered to match whatever Jobs was willing to spare.

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