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...night of Aug. 13, 1961, when East Germany's communist rulers began to build a wall around West Berlin, and the divide threatened to destroy the world a year later, on Oct. 15, 1962, when the U.S. discovered Soviet warheads in Cuba, setting off the 13-day showdown of the Cuban missile crisis...
...fight is in part about ideology. Democrats hear from Republican insiders that Estrada's beliefs are to the right of those of Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most conservative Justice. And they fear that Bush would try to elevate Estrada to the high court. The showdown is also about process. Estrada has refused to answer questions about his stands on such issues as abortion and affirmative action, and the White House won't release his old Justice Department memos. Underlying it all is the ill will toward President Bush that has built up as a result of such moves...
...support a war in Iraq could lead to more extremism in Middle Eastern nations, many of which are already tinderboxes of bad governance and extremism. U.S. attempts to form a stable government in Iraq would be opposed by militants from all sides, making the country a pawn in the showdown between western liberalism and Islamic extremism—hardly a desirable fate for the Iraqi people...
...fears that the Harvard men’s hockey team would overlook the Red Raiders Friday night with a Saturday night showdown with No. 2 Cornell on the horizon were erased by four first-period goals, as the Crimson rode captain Dominic Moore’s second career hat trick to a 7-0 trouncing of the Red Raiders...
Saddam achieved his mythic proportions largely by casting the 1991 war sparked by his occupation of Kuwait as an epic showdown with America and with Israel, which he dragged into the conflict by launching missiles at Tel Aviv. He still has followers, notably among Palestinians who love his implacable opposition to Israel and appreciate the cash he doles out to families of suicide bombers. But 13 years later, it's hard to ignore the fact that apart from the Scud attacks on Israel, Saddam's military campaigns have always targeted fellow Muslims--Iranians, Kuwaitis and even Iraqi Kurds...