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West’s latest big win could not have come at a more opportune time. It took a gutty performance from Harvard captain Verdi DiSesa to equalize the match at four-all, setting the stage for a matchup betweem West, the country’s fourth-ranked player and sixth-ranked player...
...replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. (If you're wondering why the world needs to come up with a new agreement to replace a pact that doesn't expire for another three years - well, that's U.N. speed.) And while U.N. officials maintained that Poznan set the stage for next year's deadline talks, most of the major issues - the division of responsibilities between rich and poor nations, tropical deforestation, sharing clean technology with developing countries - was effectively kicked to Copenhagen. (One exception were adaption funds - money to help poor countries counter the future impacts of climate change...
...position as Meet the Press moderator is awarded by to reporter who fancies self hard-hitting yet was captured for all eternity yukking it up on stage with Karl Rove...
...There is, however, one event during the two-day summit that is on the record. That took place on Thursday night, when several hundred students, scholars and scribblers burst into applause as the minds behind the John McCain and Barack Obama campaigns took the stage for a conversation provocatively titled "War Stories: Inside Campaign 2008." (See behind-the-scenes pictures from Super Tuesday...
...campaign manager, Rick Davis, brought a knit blue tie (and wry sarcasm), while his chief pollster, Bill McInturff, sat beside Davis in a white shirt with an open collar. "Here we are in the year that we elected the first African-American President, and I get to share the stage with four white guys," joked the moderator, Gwen Ifill, a correspondent for PBS who was still hobbling on a bad ankle from a spill she took before moderating the vice-presidential debate in October...