There will be people on the right of the Conservative party who see him as a cheerleader for Margaret Thatcher's brand of foreign and domestic policies who wish he could have stayed.

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In retrospect, Mr Dean's great contribution to the Democratic Party was that he succeeded in providing it with both a cheerleader and a safety valve.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Raul Alfonsin, the leader of the Radicals, has recently acted as the president's main cheerleader, but that is because he is desperate to avoid a new election in which his party, branded with the stigma of the hapless de la Rua government, would be slaughtered.

ECONOMIST: Argentina