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More important than the battles between parties or among Democrats, though, are the disputes within the Republican Party. The nastiest fight has been over the program to restructure mortgages nationwide. On Oct. 30, staff from the Treasury Department met with staff from the FDIC to discuss a $50 billion plan to get banks to rewrite troubled loans to make them affordable for distressed homeowners. The FDIC side saw the Treasury's interest as a sign that the plan would be approved...
...course, if real issues do arise this year, both sides have created huge armies of lawyers ready to pounce on any dubious county board of elections with cuff links flashing. That should be enough to scare away even the nastiest of election-year demons...
...find a perverse sort of hope in them. Even slightly dopy little American comedies carry with them an implicit promise - of romance, of laughter, of (above all) the modest joys of ordinary life. And they carry that message - without even knowing it's a message - to the remotest and nastiest corners of the world...
...Indian team's tour of Australia ended with an Aussie victory on Sunday. But instead of being celebrated as a close and historic game - Australia equaled their own world record of 16 test wins in a row - the test seems destined to be remembered as one of the nastiest in cricketing history. The Indian team, frustrated at some appallingly bad umpiring decisions and Australia's unsportsmanlike behavior in benefiting from those decisions, are even more livid that one of their players has been banned for three games on charges of racism. The Australians accuse Indian bowler Harbhajan Singh of calling...
...this a national effort, or more of the same mid-level one?" asked a senior officer who has served in Iraq. "What I heard last night is more of the same. We either needed to go big - and that means 100,000 soldiers to fight, take on the nastiest elements like Moqtada Al Sadr, and police that country alongside Iraqis - or we should have found...