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...have to come ready to defend those two players [Hanks and Downs],” Delaney-Smith said. “I would rather try to stop Hanks and Downs than Reka and Hana. That’s a little tougher challenge...
...plan tends to leave congressional Republicans feeling a little nervous. Bush has until 2004 to bring the economy around (and, he'd better hope, the budget under control), which still looks like plenty of time. But House and Senate GOPers have to defend Bush's fiscal policy this summer and fall. The recovery is going to have to hurry to be noticeable by then - and the argument for tax cuts (which always seem to return more money to those who make more) has never polled well when times are tough...
...many ways the enemy in World War II was far, far more difficult. We were up against an enormously strong, productive, centralized, industrialized state, which had terrific resources at its disposal. It could perform offensively very aggressively, but could also, when the balance tilted, defend itself with tremendous resilience...
...where do the hours go? His mobile phone rings constantly, friends and allies check in, feeding him an hourly dose of Manila's hypercaffeinated political intrigue. For a while he passed his time calling phone-in radio shows to defend himself, but the general in charge of the hospital asked him to stop, please...
...showed his vulnerability to cults, but he later revealed his strengths by walking away. Perhaps Ali's greatest American-rebel moment was when he refused to go into the military service: he rang a chord going all the way back to the Civil War, when some whites refused to defend slavery for slave owners who had no respect for them either...