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...Asked about a rivalry between the two vampire projects, Harris, a feisty Southerner, took the bait, imagining a bite-off between the vampire clan in Twilight and the staff of a vampire bar called Fangtasia from her books. "If it came to a Cullen Family-Fangtasia smackdown, I think the Fangtasia staff would win," she said, to whoops and cheers...
There is nothing so tiresome as an argument that no one will ever concede--particularly if the participants don't seem to know it. And there's no place the fighting is growing more pointless than in the ongoing smackdown between evolutionists and advocates of intelligent design--the theory that the emergence of life must have been guided by a sentient planner...
...damn the beer. Samuel Adams' $120 Utopias, in a ridiculous copper-covered 24-oz. (710 mL) bottle meant to resemble an old-fashioned brew kettle, looked like the perfect candidate for a smackdown. First off, it's barely a beer. It's not carbonated like a Bud but aged in oak barrels like scotch, and it has a vintage year, like a Bordeaux. It is also unbelievably delicious--like a port flavored with malt and a touch of bite from the hops, and somehow light, complex and free of any alcohol sting, despite having six times as much alcohol content...
...Saturday, the day of the Chavez smackdown, Elena and Jaime were in the process of moving into their separate homes. Politicial analysts on Wednesday's morning talk shows insisted that one had nothing to do with the other, but it was hard to avoid speculation about the pressure the king must be feeling. Hard, too, to avoid the conclusion that 2007 has been a particularly rough year for the Spanish royals - or, as Britain's Queen Elizabeth said of 1992, a year that she would not "look back with undiluted pleasure" because of the marital troubles of her own progeny...
...year the actual struggle seems more like Hatfield vs. McCoy, Montague vs. Capulet, or Luke vs. That Masked Vader-Like Figure in Empire Strikes Back That Actually Turns Out to Be Luke’s Psyche (Or Something). Are we just fighting ourselves? Or is this indeed an epic smackdown between the representatives of two vitally different ideals...