What it means: In the post-PC era, services rule, and Amazon is getting quite good at offering services consumers want.

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They even considered passing a rule change to allow DeLay to keep his leadership post if indicted by the Travis County grand jury (dropping that plan only after public outcry).

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New Zealand dropped British-style first-past-the-post voting in 1996 and has seen only hung parliaments and coalition rule since.

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In an interview earlier, he did not explicitly rule himself out of running the premiership, saying the candidate for the post "will be decided if we win", but that it could go to PDL secretary Angelino Alfano.

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The United Nations has never recognised Indonesian rule there, leaving East Timor as one of the unfinished items on the world's post-colonial agenda.

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Although the parties likely to assume power doubtless feel threatened by extremism, the post-electoral situation will force them to focus time and energy on more elemental things: reestablishing civilian rule after nearly a decade out of power, reversing many of Musharraf's recent actions, perhaps seeking his ouster, sorting out differences among themselves, and dealing with pent-up public frustrations about lack of services and other grievances.

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