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...rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld, isn't George W. Bush tacitly admitting that his dad was right about a lot of other things too, like choosing not to overthrow Saddam...
...power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may well have been written last week in the same medium that incubated it: talk radio. On conservative commentator Laura Ingraham's show, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history explained why he would not resign despite a sex scandal that has produced a hail of questions about his leadership and the failure to stop one of his members from cyberstalking teenage congressional pages. "If I fold...
...does he? Levinson imagines this as the first election in which votes are counted electronically by machines manufactured by Delacroy Voting Systems, one of whose employees (Laura Linney) detects a glitch in the system, proving that Dobbs ran well, but not victoriously. Next thing you know, she?s on the run from her bosses, who will stop at nothing to silence her, and into Dobbs?s arms. At which point a promising political comedy turns into a somewhat less engaging political thriller. Delacroy?s evil chief counsel (Jeff Goldblum) will stop at nothin - including murder - to prevent her from destroying...
...defensive front, the freshmen also stood out Wednesday night. While their forward counterparts were busy helping the offensive effort, the defense, anchored in part by Nichols and fellow first-year keeper Laura Mann, was dominant, with Mann posting her second shut out of the season...
Crimson setters and hitters all benefit from the scrappy defensive performances of junior co-captain outside hitter Laura Mahon and freshman libero Katherine Kocurek, whose 219 digs place her second in the Ivy league...