Yet the cause of reform could draw strength from a more unlikely source--the computers Mahathir himself seeded across the country.

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But as a nation, we can draw strength from the service of our fellow Americans.

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Michael Clarke, Australia's stand-in captain, is drawing strength and optimism on this being the start of a new year as he aims to draw the series.

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