If Labour's vote improves, the Tories' best hopes may be against the Liberal Democrats, in the south-west corner of the capital.

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With elections around the corner, the debate over capital punishment looks set to pick up.

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Now let's turn to NPR's senior correspondent Juan Williams for the latest from the nation's capital in Political Corner.

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But Bell Atlantic is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.

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But Bell Atlantic, which recently offered all state schools and libraries the means to connect to the Internet for two years, is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.

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Geographically, the old capital was in the extreme southeast corner of the country, near the border with China, and cut off from the rest of the republic.

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Capital would flood into the U.S. from every corner of the world.

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In the capital city, Lucknow, massive posters and hoardings have been hoisted on every street corner, telling people that it is their prime duty as citizens to vote.

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Barclays Capital and Nomura Securities believe it has hit bottom in the late second quarter and will start turning the corner.

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