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Though the other matches were not as close, three or fewer points decided 16 of 34 games...
...vote and facing a right-wing primary challenge - switched parties. That meant that of the six Senate Republicans with the most moderate voting records in 2007, only two were still in the Senate, and in the party, by '09. The Wednesday lunch club had ceased to exist. And the fewer Republican moderates there were, the more dangerous it was for any of them to cut deals across the aisle...
...better part of a year, and the public mood had grown bitter. According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the percentage of Americans who said Obama had done a "very good" job of "achieving his goals" was less than half the level of January 2009, and significantly fewer people believed he was successfully "changing business as usual in Washington." (See the top 10 political defections...
...Peanuts,” the fourth track, vacillates between minimalism and complexity, epitomizing how “Falling Down A Mountain” fares best when Tindersticks employ more, rather than fewer, of the elements at their disposal. Female vocals provide a pleasing contrast with Staples’ unmistakable baritone, as do the piano and loose, bluesy guitar, but the bare aesthetic risks alienating fans of the band’s multi-instrumentalist approach. Thankfully, synths, strings and horns come to the rescue halfway through, filling out the song’s meager build and preventing it from going...
...days in session than in any other year in the previous decade. It held more Saturday and Sunday sessions than any Congress of the past 20 years. Altogether, Congress spent 1,420 hours in session—the third busiest year dating back to 1991. And yet, it passed fewer measures and public laws than in any year of the previous decade, with the exception...