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...With a mere three points separating the third- and seventh-place teams in the ECAC, these two matchups have the potential to considerably impact the postseason landscape. Depending upon how conference games unfold in the next few days, Harvard could fall anywhere between being tied for first place in the ECAC and dropping to the seventh spot...
...Obama is not a god, demi or otherwise, but a mere politician and must work within the realm of political reality to achieve his goals. In fact, far from attempting an executive take-over of public policy, Mr. Obama has arguably left far too much of the responsibility for enacting his agenda of change in the hands of Congress, leading to protracted and unproductive negotiations on Capital Hill. While Mr. Obama promised change in Washington, he cannot alter the nature of parliamentary democracy, which relies on such wheeling-and-dealing as the legislative pay-off to Sen. Ben Nelson...
...Endless Filibuster All this, it turns out, was a mere warm-up for the Obama years. On the surface, it appeared that Obama took office in a stronger position than Clinton had, since Democrats boasted more seats in the Senate. But in their jubilation, Democrats forgot something crucial: vicious-circle politics thrives on polarization. As the GOP caucus in the Senate shrank, it also hardened. Early on, the White House managed to persuade three Republicans to break a filibuster of its stimulus plan. But one of those Republicans, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter - under assault for his vote and facing...
...don’t understand football. Not that it hasn’t been explained to me—many times, in fact—but my knowledge of downs and flags and penalties is like a house of cards, obliterated by the mere breeze of a linebacker running past. But my interest in the sport was finally piqued when the Nielsen Company trumpeted Super Bowl XLIV—with its 106.5 million viewers—as the most watched American television broadcast in history, besting the series finale...
...real numbers and it puts forward real proposals. It grapples with the reality of the situation we are in, which is a fiscal nightmare." Being intellectually honest, of course, is often politically dangerous. With Republicans "still skittish," Wehner says, about jeopardizing their political momentum at a time when mere opposition to the President seems to be enough to propel them to gains in this year's midterm elections, Ryan may be forcing a conversation his party is unwilling to have. That's a risk that Ryan, who defied party doctrine by supporting the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the auto...