Here he is meeting Cecil Beaton, partying with David Bailey in East London, throwing the party of the year in New York to herald the arrival of the Rolling Stones, raising horses in Arizona, releasing an album in July, and "doing up" (though he would hate that term) homes for the likes of Rod Stewart, Charles Saatchi and Princess Michael of Kent.

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Mr Giuliani has already been spotted at fund-raising meetings in places like Arizona, Michigan and Iowa an activity normally associated with those seeking national office.

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And voters in six states, including Arizona, approved initiatives raising minimum wages for their lowest-paid citizens.

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Seventeen states revised their plans in the middle of this fiscal year, cutting spending, cancelling or delaying capital projects, issuing more debt and, in four states, raising taxes (by more than 5% in Arizona and New Hampshire).

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What began with the eyebrow-raising departure of catcher Russell Martin for Pittsburgh continued with Eric Chavez' jump to the Arizona Diamondbacks, then the news that second-tier Yankee targets Jeff Keppinger and Nate Schierholtz had quickly signed elsewhere.

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