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...were a consultant on The West Wing. Aside from ideology, which candidate would be most like Jed Bartlet? The great benefit of that old President Bartlet was pretty much every show was an arc about how he thinks, how he experiences his presidency, what he thinks he faces, what attitude he brings to crises that he faces. That was a President thinking aloud. We could use more of that...
...first group, America's cultural conservatives, dominates the Republican convention hall, and they've adopted Palin almost overnight as their Joan of Arc. They like her uncompromising position on abortion, they like the guns in her home and the game in her freezer, and they like the way she symbolizes a jaunty "up yours" to cultural snobs the world over. So Palin can count on a passionate welcome and abundant cheers as she accepts the GOP's vice-presidential nomination...
...Friday) at least part of a road map for how to compete against the "Redeem Team." On offense, "we didn't try to beat them off the dribble," said point guard Mills. They passed and cut to the hoop with precision and shot well from behind the three point arc. Nor did they ever allow the U.S. to turn it into a track meet. Fast break points were almost evenly distributed, the U.S. scoring 14 off the break to Australia's ten. (Against Spain last week, that figure was 32-zip in Team USA's favor...
...when Spain did manage to get the US into a half-court game, the Americans responded with the kind of shooting efficiency that some skeptics wondered whether they possessed. Anthony in particular was sniping from three-point land with positively European brio - shooting four of six from behind the arc. Consistently, the US swung the ball crisply in the half-court game, found the open man, and then nailed long-range jumpers: Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Tayshaun Prince (three of four) and Deron Williams all made three pointers. Overall, Team USA shot 12 of 25 from three-point land...
...slap a ball against a wall): six athletic men and women run around a court, dribbling a mini-soccer ball every three steps. They pass it around and throw it into a nearly 10-ft.-wide, 7-ft.-high goal. You have to shoot the ball outside of an arc, which stretches about 20 ft. from the goal. But you can leap forward into the arc, as long as you start your jump behind the line...