Margaret Thatcher is coming to Florida. This event, Success 2001, is one of the many strings attached to the former prime minister's bow and it can be assumed that she will not be coming cheap.
Losers concentrate on getting by.
Mr Gore is certainly concentrating hard on winning and Mr Bush, while he has announced that he has won and is only waiting for Bill Clinton to hand him the keys, still gives much more of an impression of just getting by, as though it has only just struck him what he may have let himself in for. As one group of Republican demonstrators pack up their placards and head home, a group of Democrat demonstrators take over and picket the state's supreme court. The clock is ticking. By December 12, all of the legal battles have to be settled. Maybe Mr Bush and Mr Gore should enrol now to hear the baroness's formula for success.