Either he will run to win, or he will serve out his time as mayor (he must stand down in 2009) and then spend his silver years giving away his gold.
Moreover, if he is to stay on good terms with the United States, he must let them stand for election in due course.
Philippines President Benigno Aquino has warned a clan leader that he must end a stand-off involving armed supporters who are occupying a remote part of Malaysia's Sabah province.
"I wanted to make sure that he knew from the very beginning that my country meant a great deal to me and should the necessity arise for me to go back to live in Burma, he must never try to stand between my country and me, " she says.
Some of the people who saw it all said he must have been a bit simple, just to stand there grinning like that, provoking his attacker and not doing anything to defend himself.
It would appear that Senator Lugar is going to such lengths in defiance of traditional Senate practice and good governance principles for a simple reason: As a veteran of a number of scarring legislative battles over defective accords, he must recognize that this Law of the Sea treaty cannot stand the light of day.
To stand a chance of re-election, he must therefore do whatever he can to frame the vote less as a referendum on his performance in office and more as a choice between competing visions for the future.
"We must stand together, we have collective responsibility, " he said, warning of a risk of new nationalism in Europe.
Mr Howard himself must share part of the blame because he refused to take a stand on the issue of second-preference votes.
"We must be able to stand alongside other nations as an equal, " he says.
To stand a chance of overturning Mr da Silva's huge lead, he must do two things, according to Gaudencio Torquato, a political scientist at Sao Paulo University.
But he dismissed any connection with the Drumcree stand-off and went to Portadown to insist the protest must continue, telling the crowd the dead boys were in fact Protestants.
Not only must this victory taste sweet given the controversial decisions that have plagued this rivalry, but he will now stand a better chance for a gigantic payday himself against Floyd Mayweather at some point during 2013.
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