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...very serious woman, a very stern woman who ran a tough ship," the senior proctor says. "She can't be in the position that she's in without being a hard-ass. And she is just that...
...Charles Robb, two-term democratic Senator from Virginia, just what he was doing for those two terms, and first he says, "There's a lot of different ways to look at legislative success." Then he counts the ways: putting through $220 million for ship maintenance and construction, raising military pay and brokering a large civil-rights settlement for black farmers who claimed the Agriculture Department had refused them loans and other supports. But even Robb ends up characterizing the list as "a lot of little things like that...
...prices have had a lot to do with the slide, and they'll have a lot to do with whether this bounce lasts. Friday, traders may have figured out that the explosion on the U.S. Navy ship wasn't one of Saddam's Scuds, and that neither Israel nor the Palestinians produce a drop of oil. And bad news from the region took a day off. So crude prices came down, and optimism went...
...perhaps too much so at times, as he fell back into a body language that suggested he might lean over and loose a stream of tobacco juice at any moment. In this respect, he may have been saved by the format too: Jim Lehrer, who ran a much tighter ship, rules-wise, than in the first debate, is not exactly a buddy-buddy moderator, which probably kept Bush from becoming overly laid-back...
...plunged 379 points Thursday on one word: oil. (OK, oil and Home Depot's earnings report, but let's not split hairs.) With U.S. sailors dead in a likely terrorist attack on a Navy ship in the Persian Gulf and Israel bombing Palestinian headquarters in retaliation for a Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers (and with Iraq threatening to suspend crude production in some wacky euro-support blackmail scheme and Venezuela mired in oil-labor troubles) there was only one commodity scarcer than confidence Thursday, and that was black gold...