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...shouldn't the NFL give the Pats, and other teams like it, a chance to score too? Even a couple of NFL coaches this season have decided the the random nature of overtime can be too risky; twice so far, teams which scored a last second touchdown and could send the game into sudden-death with an extra point have opted instead to go for the win with a two-point conversion (one team, the Kansas City Chiefs, lost its gamble, while another, the Denver Broncos, won the game...
...Genius” Rove to the right, and now Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel to the left. Democrats excuse Obama’s waffle on public financing;Republicans defend McCain’s “Compliance Fund.” They send out their best strategists to hem, haw, and equivocate. Journalists, currying favor, perhaps, or tied to their own politics, let them...
...while Brown has already said he backs any effort to get other NATO countries to share the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) burden in Afghanistan, Merkel last week insisted she would not send German troops in the volatile southern region. And Sarkozy has already hinted that his forces are already stretched due to ongoing missions in Chad, Kosovo, Congo and Lebanon...
...Indeed, at the level of pure headcount, Europe has few extra soldiers to send. European nations already provide around half of the 50,000-strong ISAF force in Afghanistan, with the British, French, Germans and Dutch making the principle contributions. On top of that, this week the E.U. launched its first naval operation: a mission to fight piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia. Since the beginning of 2007, the E.U. has had 15 'battlegroups', each with at least 1,500 soldiers, dealing with local crises around the globe. "They are not just chicken, they are not just...
...Even if Saturday's meeting will mostly be theatrics and promises to hold future meetings, Sarkozy needs to go and speak to Bush in order to send a message to Obama," says French political analyst Alain Duhamel. "What that will say is Sarkozy and Europe are mobilized and determined to regulate markets collectively, and that Obama is going to have to deal with that push from his foreign allies - especially if the situation remains this dire through Obama's Inauguration...