Mali got a shoutout or two, but the role of Africa in the world and in great-power politics slipped away in the night.

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As should be clear from a casual perusal of the past 40-odd years of great power politics, the use of terrorist forces is completely banal and unexceptional.

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For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.

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