The battle over the size and scope of the federal government will have to be settled in the 2012 elections.

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Conservatives will not win the battle over the size of the government over the long run by scaring and bullying the rest of the country into going along with economically unjustified austerity.

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"The fox is guarding the henhouse, " says Karen Hudson, president of Families Against Rural Messes, an Elmwood, Ill. group that does battle with industrial-size pigsties and chicken coops.

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In 1942, in Singapore, a British-led allied force of some 85, 000 troops, bombarded and cut off from support and supplies after a week-long battle, surrendered to a Japanese invading force less than half its size.

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Non-Apple handset vendors are now trying to battle the iPhone behemoth by moving into extremes when it comes to display size, pixel count and camera quality.

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So if Mr Khatami does run, the battle is not going to be over whether he wins but over the size and the nature of the mandate that he comes back with.

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