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...midterm-election debacle of 1994, urging Clinton to embrace the balanced budget in June 1995 when most other White House advisers were against it; arguing in August 1995 that it was high time to bomb the Bosnian Serbs into submission; and counseling Clinton during the winter's titanic showdown with the g.o.p. not to compromise but to let the Republicans shutter the government and take the blame. Sometimes Bold Al gets carried away. In December 1995 he infuriated Republicans by phoning the nbc Nightly News to announce a massive telecommunications reform bill in order to guarantee that the White House...
...Iran: The Showdown Washington and Teheran will go mano-a-mano, or at least pied-a-pied at next year?s World Cup Finals in France. Is soccer the continuation of war by other means...
Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Cambridge political analyst, described the 1996 showdown between Galluccio and Wolf as a "classic town-versus-gown" election. The race pits Galluccio, "the lunch-pail democrat" against Wolf, "the limousine liberal," quipped Koocher, who hosts a local public-access television show on city politics...
Strawberry Shortcake and her little cat, Custard, wouldn't put up with the preposterous and culturally confusing notion of a banana in sleepwear for one minute. In this produce showdown, 'Cake and her little feline friend give a pie in the face to the bedtime Chiquitas, who don't even have a fruity scent...
...December both schools will begin their holiday festivities in Wisconsin at the Badger Showdown. Although they aren't slated to meet in the first round, they could possibly meet in either the finals or the consolation game...