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...scored key goals in multiple games, setting the tone for the season in the home opener against Stony Brook, when he scored on a clever chip over the head of the Seawolves’ goalkeeper...
...rocky alliance with Pakistan and nudge the Middle East pugilists into talks. In the course of the trip, there were the first stray wisps of a hint that Clinton wanted to begin asserting her independence, as the Administration, facing roadblocks across the world, struggled for a firmer foreign policy tone after an opening nine months that might be called the Rodney King - "Can't we all just get along?" - phase...
...President's instinctive impulse toward conciliation. One of the sharpest exchanges of the presidential campaign came when Obama accused Clinton of echoing the "bluster" of George W. Bush after she said the U.S. would be able to "obliterate" Iran if it used nuclear weapons against Israel. Clinton's edgier tone has been evident from the start of the Administration: she took a sharper position than the President on an Israeli settlement freeze by claiming, in May, that Obama wanted "to see a stop to settlements. Not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions." And then, in Jerusalem...
...this northwest Virginia town. But the rally in Leesburg on Sunday was for the Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell; the speakers included attorney general nominee Ken Cuccinelli (the leader of the "Yes, we can" chant) and Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling ("Help is on the way"). And while the tone may have sounded reminiscent of Obama's stirring rallies of a year ago, the platform couldn't have been more conservative. "This has been a campaign of ideas, on innovation, on a positive uplifting vision for the future of Virginia," McDonnell told the crowd. "And what we need...
...tone of the debate, the town halls, the "death panels," the tea parties - did you worry that things were becoming too extreme? I worried more that Congress wasn't listening to people who are very angry and frustrated. I thought that the smug, condescending attitude that many members of Congress had toward people who attended town halls was the very reason that the town halls were getting so much momentum. There is a tone deafness by members of Congress who breathe the rarified air of the Beltway and tend to think that they, in fact, are getting a full whiff...