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Dogfight Down Under
Yesterday, the New York Times' Straight Sets blog raved about the intensity of the Nadal-Federer semifinal, but this morning's match between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray was a dogfight. I woke up at 4:30AM to a score of Djokovic leading 6-3, 3-5, but Novak fell behind on serve and was broken to lose the second set. All even.
The third set was very tight. The first game, Djokovic serving, took over ten minutes. Murray was serving crisply and controlling the baseline rallies with tightly-angled forehands. Reportedly suffering from a "stuffy nose," Djokovic looked tired and far less confident than usual. He wasn't serving that well, and repeatedly had to fight back to hold his own service games. Nole did well to reach a tiebreak, but couldn't hold off Murray. Andy only needed to keep going and take the fourth set. Crikey, even Ivan Lendl cracked a smile.
The Djokovic run ended late last fall, but I expected he would defend many, though not all, of the titles he won last year. Murray seemed poised to take away the first major. If I was still a lad I would have taken the morning off, but I headed to work wondering if Murray had any shot against Nadal.
Arriving at work, I walked in the back door as my tennis buddy opened the front door. He looked at his smartphone and said, "It's on serve 3-2." I thought he meant the fourth set. Actually, Djokovic had run away with the fourth set 6-1 and was already up 5-2 in the fifth. "It's over," I thought, and started checking my email. I took a business call, returned an email with a color question, and checked the web again. Murray was serving at 4-5. I tuned into to AO radio.
Murray held to 5-5 and had all sorts of chances to break, but Djokovic kept digging out to hold for 6-5. Murray was spent, and Novak quickly broke for 7-5, the set and the match. Live-blog at the Daily Mail, where they still love the Scotsman.
N.Djokovic(1) d A.Murray(4)
6-3 3-6 6-7(7) 6-1 7-5
Djokovic will certainly have another tough, physical match against Nadal, but can rest and recover until Sunday evening.
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There Will Be No Saviors for the GOP in 2012
Outstanding article:
Prominent Republicans keep hoping for someone to rescue them from its slate of mediocre candidates. But the party’s biggest problem is the ideological bloodlust of its base.
The bombshell dropped in Saturday’s Playbook, the chattering-class email sent out every morning by the Politico’s Mike Allen. If Mitt Romney fails to win Michigan next Tuesday, a few high-powered Republicans have started saying, the party needs to go back to square one and recruit a new candidate. Yes, maybe it does. But what will that fix? Not much. What the party needs is not simply a new candidate. It needs someone with the courage to stand up and say that the GOP has gone completely off the deep end—and that the party could run an amalgam of Ronald Reagan and Mahatma Gandhi and he wouldn’t win as long as the party’s inflamed base keeps with its current attitudes. But it lacks such a person utterly. It’s a party made up of on the one hand unprincipled cowards, and on the other of people devoted to principles so extreme that they’d have serious trouble attracting more than about 42 percent of the vote.
The report continues with viable and on target points.
Read the article at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/21/michael-tomasky-there-will-be-no-saviors-for-the-gop-in-2012.html- Add new comment
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Greek Debt 'Relief' Leaves Greece w/Higher Debt
The 'rescue package' appears to reduce interest rates on some bonds held by hedge funds and banks, while more than making up for that 'relief' with a new EU loan which is more than the purported savings on the previous bonds. This is 'relief'? For Greece or hedge funds and banks?
...The deal in Brussels gives Greece its second financial lifeline in less than two years — a combined package of foreign loans equivalent to about €22,000 ($29,000) for every Greek citizen, children included. National debt already amounts to about €32,000 ($42,300) each....
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Being Strong: Why Russia needs to rebuild its military.
By Vladimir Putin, ForeignPolicy.com, Feb. 21, 2012
[....] It is no surprise that some are calling for resources of global significance to be freed from the exclusive sovereignty of a single nation. This cannot happen to Russia, not even hypothetically [....]
Editor's note: A longer version of this article appeared in the Russian newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give $100M To...
By Steve Bertoni, Forbes Magazine, Feb. 21, 2012
[....] The man whose net worth, by Forbes’ calculations, has jumped more ($21.6 billion) during the Obama administration than any other American — Mark Zuckerberg included — wants to take the president out for economic reasons. “What scares me is the continuation of the socialist-style economy we’ve been experiencing for almost four years. That scares me because the redistribution of wealth is the path to more socialism, and to more of the government controlling people’s lives. What scares me is the lack of accountability that people would prefer to experience, just let the government take care of everything and I’ll go fish or I won’t work, etc.”
“U.S. domestic politics is very important to me because I see that the things that made this country great are now being relegated into duplicating that which is making other countries less great. … I’m afraid of the trend where more and more people have the tendency to want to be given instead of wanting to give. People are less willing to share. There are fewer philanthropists being grown and there are greater expectations of the government. I believe that people will come to their senses and not extend the current Administration’s quest to socialize this country. It won’t be a socialist democracy because it won’t be a democracy.” [....]
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Supreme Court HealthCare Arguments Extended To Six Hours
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has added another 30 minutes to upcoming arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The sessions now will span six hours over three days in late March.
The breakdown of the three central topics to be heard are in body of report.
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