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...smackdown took place at an ordinary watering hole where a small herd of cape buffalo were drinking and idling, wandering dangerously close to a pack of concealed lions that either did not smell very lion-like or, more probably, were crouching deliberately upwind. On the other side of the hole, six tourists and a guide watched in a parked range vehicle. The lions waited until the buffalo got close enough and then pounced, seizing the baby and scattering the adults. That's usually a game-ender for a baby buffalo, but things got even worse for this...
McCain and Lieberman's bill was soundly defeated that year and in 2005 suffered an even worse Senate smackdown, 60 to 38. With a new Congress in place, McCain and Lieberman will try again. This time they will face competition from Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter, whose version would set higher caps and more gradual reductions. "The McCain-Lieberman proposal was very credible," Bingaman says. "[But] this draft has more prospect of actually being adopted." Yet another cap-and-trade bill will probably come out of Boxer's committee, and more bills still will be considered in the House...
...arrived at last night’s Campus Political Society-sponsored gay marriage debate expecting something that would be termed, by the average college student, a “shit-show.” I was ready to witness a veritable smackdown between the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) and the College Democrats versus the Harvard Salient and the Catholic Students Association (CSA). What I got instead was a renewed faith in the culture of intellectual discourse on the college campus...
...Having bow-wowed officials in Washington, Lucky and Flo are now headed for the K-9 Pirate Smackdown World Tour, a press tour of sorts, so they can demonstrate their piracy-sniffing skills to audiences in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. After that it's back to northern Ireland, hopefully for some treats...
There was plenty of renewable energy around the prospect of an Al-vs.-Hillary smackdown last week. New York magazine's cover story on Gore, written by John Heilemann, carried the headline: THE UN-HILLARY. And while Gore was basking in solar-drenched adulation at Cannes, Clinton was presenting her own energy plan in an hourlong wonkathon at the National Press Club in Washington. As Clinton showed her command of the intricacies of carbon-dioxide sequestration and cellulosic ethanol, it was impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen...