"Not that long because I'm feeling good, working hard and geting ready, " Pineda said.

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Because of the country's culture of long working hours, husbands with good jobs spend little time at home and expect their wives to cope with all domestic tasks.

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But while invoking the memory of Mr Chavez may have been a good campaign strategy, working under his shadow may be risky for Mr Maduro in the long run, according to Mr Magdaleno.

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The lapsed Senator is really working those long, NBA-tested legs, partly because he feels good--his kickoff speech went well, close to 100 media types are covering him, and the latest polls put him just a few points behind Gore in New Hampshire--and partly because he has only half an hour before sunset, and he wants to lead us to the banks of the Mississippi before then.

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Take these policies, add Mr Bush's long record of working together with the Democrats in Texas and his Reaganesque record of picking good advisers, and he surely has a plausible candidacy.

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