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If I have learned one thing in a half a lifetime of reading the papers, it is that you should not waste your time reading the papers. There's nothing in them most days, and what there is is always the same. The business section is the worst for this: Stocks may go up, but then again they may go down. Analysts are divided. But the politics pages are no better. Six months ago when I decamped for New York Paul Martin was plotting to take over from Jean Chretien. He's still at it....

Read the rest in tomorrow's National Post.