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...that it would undermine the sport's "raison d'être, based principally on competition and technological development." If it happens, Ferrari and other big teams say they would consider abandoning Formula One. Perhaps, as has been suggested in the past, a few big teams might even set up rival races. "Why would Toyota want to use somebody else's engine? Why would Ferrari? Or Honda? Or BMW?," asks Jackie Stewart, a three-time world champion and former team boss. "The whole reason they're in the sport is not only to be able to win on Sunday and sell...
...Stewart’s meteoric rise has been matched by that of his former employee, Steven Colbert, who launched “The Colbert Report” in 2005, and has come to rival his old boss in acclaim and popularity...
...whose approval rating was 63% in a March survey, would be a formidable opponent. "Palin would have a hard time winning" the GOP primary, says Gregg Erickson, editor at large for the Alaska Budget Report. Don Mitchell, a Democratic attorney and historian, calls Palin an instinctive politician whose talents rival Ronald Reagan's, and he thinks she could beat Murkowski - but he predicts that Palin would find the Senate a poor fit for her disposition. "She'd have to come in like Hillary Clinton, put her celebrity aside and work hard at getting respected," he says...
...words ring especially true: his candidate is trailing in nearly every national poll, the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has been involved in a number of embarrassing gaffes, and Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, recently announced his endorsement of McCain’s rival, Democrat Barack Obama...
...statewide surveys also show Obama leading McCain in Pennsylvania, the key blue state in which McCain is making a last-ditch, major push to score an upset, by a comfortable 12-point margin, 55% to 43%. But Obama still trails his Republican rival in McCain's home state of Arizona by a 7-point margin...