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...play—personal foul, roughing the passer. So with the penalty yardage, the Crimson was poised on the one-and-a-half-yard line, aiming to tie the score at 24, and likely sending the game into overtime. Memories of 2005’s double-overtime showdown of the two teams were being recalled around the press...
...zone 50 to 100 miles offshore, is widely viewed as a concession by congressional Democrats to the Republican minority during an important election year in which gasoline prices skyrocket and the economy continues to stagger. While the pinched wallets of gas-guzzling Americans has sparked a political showdown over offshore drilling, the partisan warfare has unfortunately obscured a larger, more serious issue—the need for a comprehensive energy security policy. Fortunately, the Democratic majority has made a crucial strategic decision to rise above the partisan fracas and actually begin constructing a cohesive and sensible energy policy for years...
Barack Obama and John McCain have never debated each other, but both may whiff some déjà vu when they hold their first showdown tonight in Oxford, Miss. - they've likely spent days sparring with their opponent's spitting image...
...substantive debate in which the merits of ideas can truly be tested. It seems a shame, therefore, that this same flexibility will not characterize the vice-presidential debate, in which Senator Joe Biden will face off against Governor Sarah Palin. Unlike its presidential counterpart, the much-anticipated Biden-Palin showdown will be constrained by a more restrictive format that leaves little time for questions or interactions between debaters. Even more troubling than the curtailed structure is that the McCain campaign has publicly admitted to insisting upon such a format in an attempt to hide the inexperience of its vice-presidential...
...precedent, and that the Federal Government would not be lender of last resort to Wall Street? The public did, but Wall Street didn't. If the bank was open for Bear and Freddie and Fannie, why not Lehman and AIG? It took a high noon showdown over the weekend for Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson - one of Wall Street's own - to convince the Street's gunslingers that he wasn't kidding about the moral hazard issue...