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...result is that, today, all it takes is 41 votes to bring legislation you don’t like to a halt, perhaps permanently. This is a maneuver particularly suited to the Republicans’ current strategic weakness and characteristic tactics: Oppose everything, constantly whip up the base, feed a steady, daily diet of red-meat attacks to Fox News, hope that something develops traction and slowly begins to erode Obama’s or the Democrats’ credibility, and, above all, show that Obama and the Democrats are “ineffective...
...Neill are roommates on campus, and O’Neill and O’Hara tend to room together when the team travels. The relationships come full circle on the field, where O’Hara communicates with Albright through signals, helping the catcher deal with runners on base...
...last season saw Albright, O’Hara, and O’Neill become more comfortable at the plate. Albright finished with a .370 batting average and a .412 on-base percentage in Ivy games, while O’Hara hit safely in 14 of the team’s final 15 contests...
...lauding the Islamic army of Iraq, a hard-line Sunni group loosely affiliated with al-Qaeda, are prevalent in many parts of west Mosul. Iraqi security forces have crossed out some of the writing on the wall, but it's proving harder to erase the insurgents and their support base. "I knew AQ [al-Qaeda] was a problem, but I didn't know to what extent," says Lieut. Colonel Thomas W. Cipolla, battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment. Cipolla, who is on his third tour in Iraq, took command of his battalion in mid-February after...
...looks like "All Fools Day" will come early on Wall Street this year. Several banks are going to try to raise the base salaries of key employees to dodge the Federal Government's mandate to cut big bonuses at firms which have received bailout money. If increasing base payouts did not so obviously flaunt the intent of the programs that Congress and the Administration are putting into place, the plan would be brilliant...