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...Treasury Secretary.) He might be able to sign a cap-and-trade energy bill - though it would hurt him with gop conservatives. He might be able to please the right with some judicial appointments - but that would hurt him with Democrats. He could please hawks by rattling his saber at Iran and reach out to doves by using his credibility as the son and grandson of admirals to cut some Pentagon waste...
...that fencing isn’t King Arthur’s pastime anymore. Now a highly technical sport, fencing has become increasingly popular, particularly after a stunning U.S. showing at the Summer 2008 Olympics. In Beijing, the American women’s teams performed unexpectedly well, sweeping the individual saber events...
...Darth Vader's apprentice. When somebody tries to mess with you, you don't initiate trade negotiations--you unleash the Force on his puny, goody-good Jedi ass. You shock him, you boomerang your light saber at him, you grab him by the midi-chlorians and chuck him off a cliff. It's an authentically dark Star Wars tale and the perfect antidote to years of Ewok-flavored cuteness...
...Earlier on Thursday, Chávez had welcomed two long-range Russian bombers to Venezuela for training exercises, which will be followed in November by joint naval maneuvers with Russian warships in Venezuelan waters. Clearly Chávez is rattling a saber at Washington, but the more urgent question is whether U.S.-Venezuelan relations are at a breaking point. Chávez had been railing at Duddy in the media because of the ambassador's recent remarks suggesting that drug traffickers were finding it easier to use Venezuela as a transshipment point. But high-level sources inside Miraflores, the Caracas...
...overseas trip. Even his speech in Berlin - in which he said, "The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another" - fell short. Obama's true commitment to eliminating the walls that stand between nations, races and religions remains to be proved. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, Durban, South Africa...