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With all the buildup to a possible second-place showdown between the Lions and Bears on Saturday, Brown must take care of business against Cornell first...
...There was "clearly some collusion on the book with Gordon's people," says a friend of the Prime Minister. According to Julia Langdon, a political biographer researching her own study of the Chancellor, "Even if Gordon didn't use those exact words, there will have been a showdown. Brown has completely lost patience with Blair." Blair's strategy now seems to be to use the dust-up to force...
Besides, too much parity can be a bad thing. Dynasties are the life-blood of American sports, especially baseball. A common hatred of the Yankees brings fans across the nation together every fall. Without New York’s 26 championships, their annual showdown with the Red Sox wouldn’t be such an electric, riveting affair. Would you rather see the confusing parity that now exists in the NFL, where every year is a crapshoot, and teams come out of nowhere one year (hello Carolina) before quickly fading the next (goodbye Tampa...
...Showdown in Baghdad...
...military is planning something of a showdown in the capital on election day, by deploying 35,000 troops on the streets of Baghdad to safeguard the voting process. But whether that provides an adequate sense of security to the residents of a city which records an average of around twelve attacks a day remains to be seen. And there are scores of other towns and cities requiring voter protection from an insurgency that appears to have maintained, or even increased its tactical momentum...