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...Senators also knocked back Hagel's proposal to triple the amount of hard money individuals could give, but by a much narrower vote, 52 to 47. That gave the reformers their road map. The votes to ban soft money were there, if they could find the right formula for increasing the $1,000 hard-money limit, which hadn't changed since 1974. McCain and Feingold had to come up with a hard-money deal, and quickly...
It’s apparently a simpler formula than might be expected. After the acclaimed Princeton professor addressed a full house at Sanders Theatre on Tuesday, an inquisitive first-year posed the query, saying she found Morrison’s stories, well, rather complicated...
What makes Along Came A Spider such a travesty is the fact that it fails even at formula. Cross may be an expert profiler, but Soneji is no "spider"-only a deluded man with deluded dreams of fame. When he confronts Cross, crying and blaming his parents for not being there for him, his cheap trauma complex is enough to make anybody grimace in disgust. This supposedly cool, calculating kidnapper is nothing but a whiny little boy filled with self-pity. Now who wants someone like that to go down in history...
...better hope that somebody's working behind the scenes on a face-saving formula to end the spy-plane standoff, because right now it's dangerously deadlocked. President Bush, facing perhaps the most complex crisis of his life, used measured - but obviously exasperated - tones Tuesday to reiterate his insistence that the Chinese send home the damaged EP-3 surveillance plane and its 24 crew members. (There no longer appears to be much point in adding "without further tampering," now that satellite images reportedly show Chinese officials all over it, tinkering with wrenches and the like.) Bush hasn...
...Still, bridging the gulf between Beijing's and Washington's minimum requirements for ending the standoff may require some particularly creative diplomacy that allows each side to give a little without appearing - at least to their own public - to be giving anything. The kind of formula that in some parts of the U.S. might be called "lawyering...