James Kirkup in the Daily Telegraph brands David Miliband "the Al Gore of British politics", someone who did not quite make it.

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David Boies, the lawyer who won Al Gore's fight for a recount, is an awfully rumpled sort for the permanently pressed Vice President.

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But David Boies , arguing the case for Vice President Al Gore , had some powerful arguments of his own.

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