Expect almost everyone to kick the living daylights out of the Clegg White Paper.

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But the scriptwriters' attempts to tone down the comedy, made Dalton's Bond in The Living Daylights and A Licence To Kill, a dark, vulnerable, humourless man.

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What better way to demonstrate your capacity to work with opponents and distinguish yourself from Mr Gore, who has a reputation for divisiveness than to appoint a man who was, until recently, trying to bash the living daylights out of you?

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But while the president has begun shaping his public messaging to appeal to key Democratic constituencies like teachers and environmentalists, he seems oblivious to the fact that his budget pronouncements are scaring the living daylights out of voters whose well-being depends on military outlays.

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