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Coverage of Alfonso Portillo's landslide victory in Sunday's runoff to Guatemala's general election seldom failed to mention the positive impact of Portillo's confession earlier this year that in 1982 he killed two rivals for the deanship of the Mexican law school where he was teaching.
In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.
It has not been without influence on the ABC's commercial rivals.
Mansfield declined, however, to tell Chatterbox what the rationale was behind all the legal mumbo-jumbo on Metabolife's Web site, or why Metabolife was (according to its PR firm) unwilling to let ABC News' broadcast rivals help themselves to the unedited videotape of the 20/20 interview, or how Metabolife could own the copyright on an interview conducted by someone else (incorporating, Chatterbox might have added, audio fed to Metabolife from ABC's technicians).
Like the Democrats, the Braves are as rapacious as their rivals, but subtler.