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...night after logging big minutes in New Haven, won’t make the task of stopping Mullery any easier. I’m tempted to pick Brown with an upset, but I would never forgive myself if the Crimson pulled out a win. Harvard in a squeaker...
...Senate's first day of debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the health-care system produced a squeaker of a vote - exactly the 60 that majority leader Harry Reid needed to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster that could have blocked him from even bringing the bill to the floor. But it also gave a clear picture of the Republican messaging strategy as the legislation moves forward into what promises to be weeks of tendentious debate after the Thanksgiving recess. The minority intends to launch a series of surgical strikes on key parts of the bill, and to raise questions about...
...With every vote critical in the Senate, where Democrats already have a 60-seat, theoretically filibuster-proof majority, McConnell decided that saving Bunning's political hide once - his last-minute help in Bunning's 2004 squeaker made the difference - was enough. He quietly signaled to Republican moneymen that they ought to wait Bunning out. Party leaders in Washington met with a potential primary opponent. The tension reached a boiling point when Bunning called Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who will lead efforts to re-elect GOP Senators in 2010, a liar after Cornyn denied he was recruiting an alternative candidate...
...Senate's swearing-in ceremony for the nine incoming freshman who have secured their places is continuing as planned. But all the attention of the day has been focused on the drama of Burris' rejection from the Hill and the other elephant not in the room, Al Franken, whose squeaker victory by 225 votes was certified Monday by the Minnesota Canvassing Board (though Franken is still ensnarled by legal challenges from GOP incumbent Norm Coleman). "The Democratic Party is now running all three rings of the governmental circus, and a clown act has appeared in one of the rings," says...
...time Opportunity arrives, Spirit may be gone. The caprice of the Martian winds has done a better job of clearing Opportunity's solar panels than Spirit's, and project manager John Callas says that although both rovers survived the past Martian winter, in Spirit's case, it was a "squeaker." The winter that will come later in 2009 could easily be its last. Of course, the same was true of the winters that came and went from 2004 to 2008. Both machines clearly inherited long life from their Sojourner granddaddy, and both seem equally determined to make the most...