His "I am an African" speech from 1996 is rightly celebrated, but Mr Mbeki famously lacked the common touch - he would probably call it the "proletariat engagement" - and was more often mocked for his grandiloquence than praised for his eloquence.

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Research in Motion is working on a touch-sensitive device, dubbed Thunder, that its engineers reportedly call the AK, for Apple Killer.

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Once the action is underway the crowd is kept in darkness, similar to watching a football match under floodlights, but they are kept in touch with match statistics and disputed line call replays on a giant four-sided screen above the court.

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Shifting call-centres to cheap-labour countries such as India seems to touch a particularly raw nerve.

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And it might have been more accurate (though duller) to call it applied public-choice economics, rather than to come down with a touch of third-way syndrome (not this, not that, but something quite new and wonderful).

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Odds are, these consultants will have slipped off to their parked car, so they can call a client while glancing occasionally at the far-away playing field to stay in touch.

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The display isn't touch-enabled -- you'll have to get used to a backlit keyboard with dedicated answer and end-call buttons.

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