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The first of his biweekly columns for the Guardian on the presidential election campaign is about the battle between Al Gore and Bill Bradley for the Democratic nomination and how they are both currently campaigning as underdogs.
In an editorial about an antitrust challenge to the U.S. genetically modified food industry by farmers and pressure groups alleging misuse of intellectual property to restrict competition, the Financial Times took the side of the underdogs.
It's easy to think of the people who run software companies other than Microsoft as underdogs fighting Big Bad Bill.
Reporters always like to take popular people down, and they're trained to sympathize with underdogs ("afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted").
The great mass of proverbs, though, are for the lips of the governed, those proverbial underdogs.