But as if to confound all debate about what jazz means in 2012, funk was a dominating presence at the festival.

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The probability remains that, in the coming carve-up, the Republican triumvirate of Perry, Craddick and Dewhurst will get most of what it wants, if only because the Democrats are in a funk.

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