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| | TIMEeurope.com: Europe -- Final Rounds |
 | | Maude, the shadow Foreign Secretary, was one of the four Tory heavyweights flanking Hague, who called on Brits to vote Conservative for "a proud again Britain." Pride was a big theme. |
 | | Maude, shadow Chancellor Michael Portillo, shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe and party chairman Michael Ancram made separate speeches, each standing on separate round platforms, as if castaways stranded on a cluster of outcroppings. |
 | | So much so, in fact, that Hague's remarks of being "proud of the campaign we fought" and "proud of what my colleagues have said and done" stirred an uneasy silence rather than spontaneous applause. |
| www.time.com /time/europe/eu/article/0,13716,129595,00.html (469 words) |
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