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...officials have tried to tamp down the fire by saying many students will be in the debate audience and a campus drawing for tickets is being organized. Late on Wednesday, the Texas Democratic Party announced it was freeing up 100 tickets for the "public" that would available through a website drawing. The total number of tickets available to the party has not been finalized, according to state party spokesman Hector Nieto, but there are no plans to increase the number of tickets in the public drawing. Winning tickets are non-transferable and will be split between Clinton and Obama supporters...
...Some of the candidate's supporters and advisers found his genteel approach to campaigning admirable - and maddening. "There was a panic, particularly in the campaign fund-raising machinery, this summer," recalls Bill Daley, a top Obama adviser and presidential-campaign veteran who tried to tamp down the worriers. "They said, 'He's gotta punch harder; he's gotta engage...
...effort to ease the pressure, China's economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, on Wednesday announced an almost 10% increase in domestic gasoline and diesel prices, calling the move an "urgent step" needed to tamp down demand and encourage refiners to ramp up production. The price hike is likely to alleviate the shortages - that is, until the next increase in global crude prices, says Gordon Kwan, a Hong Kong-based oil and gas analyst for CLSA Ltd. "When retail prices [in China] are nearly a third lower than in the rest of the world, why would producers want...
More worrying, perhaps, is the fact that the levels of violence that prevailed in Iraq in the summer of 2006, even if they later became worse, were already horrific. In the best-case scenario, the surge has managed to tamp down the spike in violence that has occurred over the past year, but the surge itself is finite. So, it is hard to avoid the impression that the U.S. is essentially treading water in Iraq. And the various insurgencies and militias it confronts have the advantage of being the home team, which allows for patience greater than that...
...Illegal immigration did soar, but that's not why. Studies show that the valleys and peaks in migration have depended far less on changes in policy or policing and far more on the basic economic conditions in the U.S. and Mexico. If you want to truly tamp down illegal immigration, you could induce a recession in the U.S. A better idea might be to help Mexico create more jobs that pay better. A recent Council on Foreign Relations study found that when Mexican wages drop 10% relative to U.S. wages, attempts to cross the border illegally rise 6%. As complex...