Mr Karamanlis's other immediate headache is the return of the Olympics to their native soil.

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Tom Cole, the head of the Republican's House election effort, says third-party spending will help close their funding gap, and that the Democrats will have a harder time than they expect expanding their majority on native Republican soil, particularly if John McCain remains competitive.

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On one scouting expedition, he spotted a grove of palms growing in the sandy soil, trees not native to Florida that had sprouted from a batch of coconuts from a boat that had foundered off Cuba.

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