Beyond the campaign details, one big and simple truth has emerged from this week's election argument.
But there are a lot of positives that can be taken from this week.
The message from this week's campaign on that can be summed up in just two words: too bad.
The absence of a Pakistani delegation from this week's Bonn conference was a powerful signal in its own right.
And that is the real message from this week's spate of telecoms tie-ups.
Mickelson withdrew from this week's St Jude Championship in Memphis with a wrist injury but expects to be fit for Oakmont.
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Rest, mindfulness, alternative options are my big work-related takeaways from this week.
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Whether or not these various slayings are connected, the chaos is one of the few moderately firm conclusions from this week's dramas.
Lindsay Davenport will miss next week's Los Angeles Classic with the same knee injury that saw her withdraw from this week's WTA Tour event.
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There are also wider constitutional implications from this week's ping-pong match.
The shock waves from this week's attacks rippled ever more widely.
Yet the real lesson from this week's elections may be messier.
Ultimately, that is what we will remember from this week.
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The official government list of victims from this week's earthquake in central Italy reached 287 on Friday, as Italians held a mass state funeral to lay the victims to rest.
He also seized on a McCain comment from this week when he could not remember how many houses he owns and said McCain was out of touch with the "kitchen-table" issues that working families face.
But a final lesson from this week's votes is that it is no longer any good seeking to impose reform from outside, whether via the commission, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt or preaching by Britain's Tony Blair.
That seems to be the moral pundits are drawing from this week's primaries in Florida, where dazzlingly wealthy political novices spent small (by their standards) fortunes vying for the Democratic nomination for senator and the Republican nomination for governor.
Meanwhile, away from this week's summit, groups of academics and others from Europe and Asia have begun to discuss a slew of tricky issues, from preventive diplomacy to efforts to halt the spread of missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
What about the great quote from this week from Gordon Brown about significantly higher share of national income - a significantly higher share of national income has to go to health, to the NHS, as he put it, but to health.
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If that spending does help spur the economy and reduce unemployment, it will stand Mr Obama and his fellow Democrats in much better stead in the elections of 2012 a benefit that would far outweigh any passing embarrassment from this week's surrender.
The new Japanese Kindle Store, which will launch on October 25, offering customers the largest selection of digital best sellers in Japan, with the most titles from this week's Oricon top 100 books, top 50 bunko, and top 100 manga lists and a total of over 50, 000 Japanese-language Kindle books including over 10, 000 free Japanese titles and a broad selection of works from a wide range of leading Japanese authors and publishers.
And we know from testimony this week from Paul Tucker that other more radical steps are also being considered - at least by some.
As our soldiers return from Iraq this week I wanted to share the diary entry from the day we actually mobilized to Baghdad.
Yet, as I winged my way to and from Canada this week, I was able to enjoy TV shows and movies transferred from my home digital video recorder to my iPad mini.
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Lastly, recall from earlier this week my post on the economics of the professional golf industry.
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Away from Westminster this week, George Bush and I were both honoured at the same award ceremony.
On July 30th two suicide-bombers killed 13 Israelis a 14th died from wounds this week in a Jerusalem market.
We had loads of good advice both for and from companies this week.
So perhaps the negative news from China this week should not be surprising.
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