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...politics. The Court was right to make the reduction of apparent corruption a primary concern. In a country where the more monied candidates win 90 percent of the elections, the influence of wealthy donors cannot be denied. The Framers certainly would not have wanted political parties catering to the blank checks of special interests...
Nonetheless, Suchde took the first game 9-5, but Samper returned to blank him in the second. Suchde pushed ahead again by taking the third 9-2, but Samper roared back with a 9-1 win in the fourth as the players alternated dominating the fast-paced games...
Indeed, Brown regained some control of the puck and knotted the score at 13:01 in the second period with a straight, point-blank shot from blueliner Vince Macri. With the goal came some of the momentum the Crimson had owned in the first frame...
...learned in the Balkans that diplomacy requires the threat of force--and so I favored a congressional resolution." But not the resolution that was eventually passed. He wanted Bush to return to Congress for another vote before taking the country to war. "I never favored giving the President a blank check...
...inscrutable, an inside account far different from the shiny White House brochure version of an unfailing leader questioning aides with rapid-fire intensity. The two met one-on-one almost every week, but O'Neill says he had trouble divining his boss's goals and ideas. Bush was a blank slate rarely asking questions or issuing orders, unlike Nixon and Ford, for whom O'Neill also worked. "I wondered from the first, if the President didn't know the questions to ask," O'Neill says in the book, "or if he did know and just not want to know...