Rough words, but there is, I am afraid, something to them.

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Mr Aznar has none of his predecessor's tactical virtuosity, nor yet his rough-and-ready way with words, nor his youthful bonhomie, even though, at 56, Mr Gonzalez is 11 years the older.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then walking out to the rough ground where the biomass is growing (between the stream and the good soil reserved for corn) will tell the story much better than anything I can say in a meeting.

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And when I say equal play, I mean very equal: By my rough tally, the ownership-concentration issue takes up about 192 words out of a 923-word story, while the political-reprisal discussion gets 182.

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