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SDLP, Sinn Fein, the small cross-community Alliance Party, the tiny loyalist Progressive Unionists and the Women's Coalition recognise that the future of the new government depends on sustaining Mr Trimble's leadership.
ECONOMIST: Enemies and colleagues
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Some board members are keen on a European investment-banking tie-up, perhaps with Banque Nationale de Paris, which recently took control of a rival French bank, Paribas, and which has a longstanding alliance (and small cross-shareholding) with Dresdner.
ECONOMIST: Dresdner Bank
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And most important of all, in terms of the health of British public life, a global audience witnessed a small cross-party group of Britain's elected representatives doing what they should have been doing for the last 30 years: holding the press, and Murdoch in particular, accountable for their actions rather than scurrying away like a bunch of frightened rabbits in the glare of News Corp.
CNN: British politicians rightly close the door to Murdoch