Or are they blazing new trails, following their own inner vision?

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But blazing radical new trails such as allowing multi-candidate elections for top party posts would require extraordinary political daring for a leader still finding his feet.

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But when it comes to real innovation for consumers, to blazing whole new trails in digital technology for average people, the real stars of the decade are America Online and Palm.

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