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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Newsom, elected last week to be the state's lieutenant governor, had indicated he would veto the proposal before leaving for his new job.

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Last month his top lieutenant in the U.S., Paul Jannuzzo , a tightly wound former New Jersey prosecutor and 12-year veteran of the company, resigned as general counsel and chief operating officer.

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For the last year, the man in charge of getting the Iraqi forces to that level has been Lieutenant General David Petraeus.

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Allen also had praise for his opponent's two decades of service as lieutenant governor, as governor and, for the last 12 years, as United States senator.

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Last year liberal eyebrows were raised when Gavin Newsom, the Democratic lieutenant-governor, journeyed to deeply Republican Texas, along with several Republicans, to uncover the secret of the Lone Star state's job-creation record.

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The 21st took part in what is regarded as the last great British cavalry charge, at Omdurman 45 years later - in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop.

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Bernanke's lieutenant at the Fed, Donald Kohn seemed to channel his boss in a speech last week.

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And Pol Pot, the central Khmer Rouge villain in the Cambodian holocaust of the late 1970s, was suddenly brought out last July for a show trial and officially purged soon after he ordered the brutal killings of a top lieutenant and his family members.

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