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...others have made the case that whatever the result, Palin has succeeded in calling the do-nothing bluff of the Big Three and, even if the outcome is uncertain, finally moved them into action. Her campaign defends her tactics. "Ultimately, the energy companies will push for the best deal they can get, and Governor Palin has pushed just as hard to make sure that deal is in the best interests of Alaskans," says McCain-Palin spokesman Taylor Griffin. Irwin is confident that the strategy will pay off. "There will be a gas line," he says. "Once the producers get over...
...driven Bear Stearns into the arms of J. P. Morgan at a fire sale price; he has forced the board of Fannie Mae to enable a government takeover even though it meant devastation for shareholders; he has stared down Richard Fuld at Lehman Brothers, who thought he could bluff Paulson into saving the firm; and he has negotiated brutal terms with AIG to save them from outright failure with a government bailout...
...informed choice for the next president. McCain’s gambit is clever: The suspension is an offer Obama cannot refuse without playing into McCain’s depiction of him as an ambitious, self-serving politician. But Obama did right to call the Republican’s bluff, in spite of the apparent risk to his image. Anything else would have been downright selfish. Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Adams House...
...laughs are plentiful, but the comedy, as usual in Ayckbourn, is tinged with pathos and pain. The bluff, insensitive Teddy barrels over the women in his life like a speeding London taxi. Giles (Michael Siberry), the sweetly clueless next-door neighbor, is the last to learn of his wife's affair and the first, pathetically, to forgive her. Ayckbourn has made a specialty of portraying people who are too dull-witted, or self-absorbed, or obsessed with social niceties, to comprehend the wreckage around them. The boozing French actress (Zabou Breitman), after a fling with Teddy, lets loose a torrential...
Senators and Representatives feel most keenly uncomfortable about the nasty politics of the deal. In an election year dominated by a bad economy, it's not good to throw huge money at a bunch of Wall Street firms, especially when each party is worried the other is going to bluff and ultimately try to use the deal as a populist rallying cry. This is compounded by the fact that Paulson just happened to lead one of the biggest market players, Goldman Sachs, before coming to Treasury. In that role, he acknowledges, he placed a lot of the bad debt that...