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...make a move that any barstool Bobby Knight would surely recommend (and will surely scream at the TV). With your team up three points, and just a few seconds left in the game, the opponent needs a long-distance three-point shot to tie it up. So, it would stand to reason, you should prevent the other player from taking that potentially heart-breaking heave by fouling him before he has a chance to shoot the ball. In the college game, that usually sends the opponent to the line, forcing him to make the first free throw, and then miss...
...John Kerry less as ideological radicals than as soulless opportunists, weather vanes willing to say whatever it took to win. As pollster Ruy Teixeira has noted, surveys in recent years show Democrats trailing the G.O.P. by more than 20 points when it comes to "know[ing] what they stand...
...public doesn't like what you stand for, then you should probably adjust your views. But if the public doesn't believe you stand for anything, then you had better show them that you do. That's the problem the Democratic Party faces today. And the solution is to end the war in Iraq...
...been called "a constitutional myth" by legal historian Raoul Berger. President Eisenhower was the first to use the phrase and was its firmest proponent, according to Mark Rozell, a professor at George Mason University and the author of two books on executive privilege. "Eisenhower took a very strong stand, especially during the McCarthy hearings," he explains. When Senator Joseph McCarthy demanded that White House officials testify in 1954 about suspected communists, "Eisenhower responded that any man who testifies to Congress about what advice he gave me will not be working for me by nightfall...
...remember an irascible mayor scolding citizens, denouncing critics and questing after new enemies would be amazed by the sunshiney fellow Giuliani has become. He explained his six principles of leadership, which helped him through 9/11 and "also can help you in your personal life." Things like knowing what you stand for, setting goals and having courage...