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...already good enough as it is.RR: It doesn’t need writers?YP: Yeah, and it could be the best show on TV right now. And I also think that they should have me write instead. I should be the one writing shows.RR: Why you? Pitch me your pilot.YP: My what?RR: You know, the first episode of your series.YP: Um, I think it would be something making fun of Michael Vick. Possibly. Yeah, I’d try a line of Michael Vick scenarios.RR: Oh, wow, that hasn’t been done before.YP: It hasn?...
...voters often came away saying they were impressed with what he said, but unsure of him as a leader they could trust. As a candidate, Romney presented himself to voters as a product, branded as a conservative and proven as manager. But he struggled to move beyond the polished pitch to make a real connection with voters. Over the course of his tireless struggle for the presidency, he learned a lesson that has bedeviled many a candidate before him: It is often easier to win in business than to win in politics...
...Gates' pitch is also dubious. The nation's GDP didn't reach $2 trillion until 1953, and it passed $3 trillion in 1965. Arguing that Pentagon spending should be bolted to today's $13 trillion GDP ignores the inconvenient fact that it's the scale of the threats, not the size of U.S. economy, that is supposed to determine military spending...
...friendly" match between Spain and England later that year. FIFA fined the Spanish Football Federation $77,000 on that occasion. In 2006, FC Barcelona's Cameroon-born striker Samuel Eto'o walked off the field in protest after Zaragoza fans repeated the noises whenever he took to the pitch...
Mitt Romney Though he lags behind McCain, Romney will pitch himself as the "real conservative" in a play for those who consider McCain too much of a maverick...