What with Occupy Wall Street's protesters railing against the power of America's plutocrats, and Barack Obama's insistence that the wealthy must pay more, a row about tax seems likely to dominate the campaign.

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For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.

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Worries about the powerful military possibly swaying this week's vote persist despite the insistence of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that it will hand over power to an elected civilian government.

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