Crowther insisted that while Lloyd may have worked well with Henman and Rusedski, his behaviour as captain had had an adverse effect on fringe players.

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HBO, for its part, is trying to undo the dilutive effect it caused by framing too many fringe fights as mega events worthy of pay-per-view status, only to see them flop.

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Does the passage of time or the intensity of the economic crisis mean that the old post-war arguments for further integration might be lessening, and that other countries might see a "UKIP effect" in which the heresies, once confined to the fringe, may become newly and respectably mainstream?

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