On our two-hour drive, we passed (not to mention countless skid marks, some ending alarmingly at the foot of the divider) a dozen cars with flat or blown-out tyres – proof that Ajay's fears were well-founded.
IN THE ultra-modern, digital newsroom of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), a message taped to a room-divider reads: "If you're looking to buy consciences, ours are not for sale".
A Gore White House would be little more than a veto machine.On the other hand, the whole point of Mr Bush, as he reminded Americans ad infinitum during the election campaign, is that he is a "uniter not a divider".
In his first year in office he teamed up with Ted Kennedy (he was then "a uniter, not a divider") to push his education reforms through Congress.
Mr Bush, who based a lot of his campaign around his ability to be "a healer not a divider", has a long record of working with Democrats.
Remember that George Bush first marketed himself as a "uniter not a divider".
Nor is it hard to imagine some conflict between president and Congress degenerating into partisan warfare.So if Mr Bush does win, the immediate post-election period could prove an early and ferocious test of his claim to be "a uniter, not a divider".
His ads have expressed his solidarity with Mr Bush, and picked up the president's campaign talk about being "a uniter, not a divider".
He also claimed during the 2000 election campaign that he would be "a uniter, not a divider".
Behind a glass and wood divider, the other side of the restaurant offers very, very tasty Sichuan cooking indeed.
And the then governor of Texas presented himself as a centrist a new kind of "compassionate conservative", a "uniter rather than a divider", an advocate of a "humble" and restrained foreign policy.
