The sense of mastery, the wielding of all that kinetic energy, the Big Mo, is a special kind of pleasure, experientially separate from driving a 200-mph Ferrari.

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At the beginning of this year I had predicted in my column that Raila Odinga would emerge triumphant but there was no getting away from the fact that Mr Kenyatta appeared to have "the big mo" or momentum as the campaign drew to a close.

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Third on the roster and marked as "highly unlikely" is a purchase of MetroPCS. The carrier was bitterly opposed to the T-Mo merger and pouted at the idea of purchasing some of Big Blue's divested assets, so if those two met around a table, they'd have a lot of awkward apologizing to do.

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The same is true of Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI) and Altria (NYSE:MO ), the granddaddy of all Big Tobacco stocks.

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The historic tobacco stock underpricing has gone into reverse this year, and Big Tobacco giants like Altria (MO) and Philip Morris (PM) are among the best performing.

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Rounding out my "big six" would be Mo Farah, who is at the peak of his powers and is certainly ahead of the schedule he was in 2007, when he led at the bell in the 5, 000m final.

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Mo Dawoud : Well, one of the first things they should look at is the big picture, which is the macroeconomic environment that we are living in now.

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