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Singles play featured the premier No. 1 singles contest on the first day of the championships. Blake, the country's No. 1 singles player, faced Notre Dame's big gun, Ryan Sachire, the third ranked player in the country. In a back-and-forth, three set battle, Blake came out on top as he has for most of the season...
...will be days before the smoke clears in the Senate from the week's debate on gun control. For the moment, though, Democrats believe they have hit a bull?s-eye. Not only did they succeed in getting the Republican majority to do a complete about-face on the question of mandatory background checks for gun-show sales, but they also pressed the Senate to adopt a measure against juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons and a ban on the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips. Even better, from their viewpoint, the Republican mandatory-check system the Senate approved Friday...
...Branegan, "Republicans have handed the Democrats a great issue in the wake of Littleton." Though it?s no secret that both parties regularly cater to the special interest groups that back their elections, says Branegan, "Senator Larry Craig?s admission that the NRA had 'grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they can. They have a raft of gun control amendments they want the Senate...
...comfortable level." Of course, other factors bear watching -- from signs of an economic recovery in Brazil, Thailand and South Korea that could increase oil demand to NATO's ongoing war in Kosovo, which is sucking down fuel like lemonade in summertime. But Baumohl says the markets are jumping the gun -- and are just plain jumpy. "There'll be uncertainty and sell-offs until the Fed announces on Tuesday," he says. "But after that, the Dow will go right back to setting records." That may be the only kind of inflation you really have to worry about...
...Senate Republican leaders finally realized they had handed the Democrats a choice issue," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They opted to play their base but they misread the current public mood." Ever since the Littleton massacre, the NRA and its allies in Congress have known that more gun control legislation was headed their way. The issue was how to deflect the effort without looking insensitive. "Republicans thought they could get some cover with their voluntary proposal," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "but it didn?t work." A big question now, says Dickerson, "is whether they will have...