And there really are two very different paths that we began speaking about this evening.

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And there are two very different paths the country can take.

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It is a choice between two fundamentally different paths for America, two very different visions for our future.

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The comments by Mr Berlusconi are perhaps a sign of how two countries, traditionally regarded by northern Europeans as relatively even in the macho stakes, are now on very different paths.

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