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Mortgage rates are still pretty cheap, even though they've risen a full percentage point since hitting record lows about a year ago. And with the stronger economy pulling housing along, "this is a good time to get into the market," Anika Khan, Wells Fargo Securities senior economist, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday. But many first-time homebuyers are being left on the sidelines, watching all that cheap money inch higher because lending requirements remain tight. The average rate on a 30-year loan ticked up to 4.41 percent from 4.40 percent last week. Fifteen-year mortgages increased to 3.47 percent from 3.42 percent. In this video, Khan gives three reasons why it's still so hard for would-be buyers to purchase their first home.

mortgage rates are still pretty cheap , even though they 've risen a full percentage point since hitting record lows about a year ago many reasons why the stronger economy pulling housing along , `` this is a good time to get into the market , '' anika khan , wells fargo securities senior economist , told cnbc 's `` squawk box '' on friday many first-time homebuyers are being left on the sidelines , watching all that cheap money inch higher because lending requirements remain tight .

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology . The president 's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia 's ambassador to the United States . If the United Nations ' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence , including new data from recent months , it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies , including Israel , should move to halt Iran 's suspected weapons program .

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

President Obama United Nations inspectors to release intelligence showing that Iran 's nuclear program is designing and experimenting with weapons technology .

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology . Over the longer term , several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews , they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran 's central bank -- a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations .

WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The president's push is part of a larger American effort to further isolate and increase pressure on Iran after accusing it of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If the United Nations' watchdog group agrees to publicize the evidence, including new data from recent months, it would almost certainly revive a debate that has been dormant during the Arab Spring about how aggressively the United States and its allies, including Israel, should move to halt Iran's suspected weapons program. Over the longer term, several senior Obama administration officials said in interviews, they are mulling a ban on financial transactions with Iran's central bank — a move that has been opposed by China and other Asian nations. Also being considered is an expansion of the ban on the purchase of petroleum products sold by companies controlled by the country's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Revolutionary Guards are also believed to oversee the military side of the nuclear program, and they are the parent of the Quds Force, which Washington has accused of directing the assassination plot. The proposed sanctions come as administration officials confront skepticism around the world about their allegations that Iran was behind the plot and limited options about what they can do — as well as growing pressure from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to take tougher action against Iran, with the central bank and the oil industry high on lawmakers' lists. All of the proposed sanctions carry with them considerable political and economic risks. Yukiya Amano, the cautious director general of the United Nations group, the International Atomic Energy Agency, talked publicly in September about publishing some of the most delicate data suggesting Iran worked on nuclear triggers and warheads. But officials who have spoken with him say he is concerned that his inspectors could be ejected from Iran, shutting the best, though narrow, window into its nuclear activities. Similarly, China and Russia, among other major Iranian trading partners, have resisted further oil and financial sanctions, saying the goal of isolating Iran is a poor strategy. Even inside the Obama administration, some officials say they fear any crackdown on Iranian oil exports could drive up oil prices when the United States and European economies are weak. As one senior official put it, "You don't want to tip the U.S. into a downturn just to punish the Iranians." Senior administration officials, who would not speak publicly about internal negotiations over the sanctions, say no recommendation on acting against the central bank has gone to Mr. Obama, who vowed last week to make sure Iran would face the "toughest sanctions" for what he said was its role in the sensational scheme to hire a Mexican drug cartel to kill the Saudi envoy. The decision to press the International Atomic Energy Agency was brewing even before the plot against the Saudi ambassador was discovered, but that discovery prompted the White House to pursue a full-court, public press of the agency to release the sensitive intelligence. Officials familiar with the evidence say it creates extraordinarily uncomfortable questions for the Iranians to answer, but does not definitively point to the construction of a weapon. Instead, it details work on individual technologies essential for designing and detonating a nuclear device, including how to turn uranium into bomb fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can set off a nuclear blast, and how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction, measure detonation waves and make nose cones for missiles. Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said Saturday that "the United States believes that a comprehensive assessment would be invaluable for the international community in its consideration of Iran's nuclear program and what to do about it." Iran has declared that all of the documents suggesting work on how to create a weapon that could fit atop an Iranian missile are "fabrications" intended to justify an attack. The country has been the target of covert attacks, including the assassinations of some nuclear scientists and a computer worm that disabled some of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. The Obama administration, since coming to office, has never publicly presented detailed evidence to back up its claim that Iran is driving toward a weapon or creating the technology to assemble one quickly, should it need it. But it has discussed the evidence widely with allies. In part the administration has hesitated to discuss the evidence because, after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003, any American evidence is considered suspect. Widespread questions about the plot against the Saudis last week underscored how deep those suspicions run. But Iran is a different kind of case. Inspectors visit regularly, measuring Iran's output of uranium, including recent production of the material, enriched to 20 percent purity, that takes it far closer to the kind of fuel needed for a weapon. Iran said recently that it would produce more of the 20 percent enriched material than it needs for a small medical research reactor, which prompted new concerns that it is building a stockpile that could be converted to weapons use.

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Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

Los Angeles - based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News 's '' Hannity '' last night to advance Rush Limbaugh 's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host 's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast . '' You ca n't maliciously attack people , their freedom of speech , '' Glaser told Sean Hannity . '' And you certainly ca n't put words -- and it 's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered . ''

Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

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Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

By saying '' You ca n't maliciously attack people , '' Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh 's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke , then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans .

Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

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Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

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Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

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Los Angeles-based lawyer Patricia Glaser appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" last night to advance Rush Limbaugh's case against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over the radio host's comments about sexual consent in a Sept. 15 broadcast. "You can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech," Glaser told Sean Hannity. "And you certainly can't put words — and it's irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered." With that attack, Glaser summed up a Nov. 6 threat letter that she sent to the DCCC on Limbaugh's behalf. At issue in the spat is a Sept. 17 e-mail blast from the DCCC accusing Limbaugh of "excusing rape on college campuses" and saying "'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it." The way Limbaugh & Co. see things, that's an out-of-context slam on the radio host, who said all of this: How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that 'no' means 'yes' if you know how to spot it? I'm probably — let me tell you something, in this modern world, that is simply, that's not tolerated. People aren't even going to try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said as a cliche. Used to be part of the advice young boys were given. See, that's what we've got to change. We have got to reprogram the way we raise men. Permission every step of the way, clearly spelling out 'why.' Are these not lawsuits waiting to happen if even one of these steps is not taken? Responding to a question from Hannity about Limbaugh's status as a public figure for the purposes of media law, Glaser noted, "What do I have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? I have to show malice. Could it be any clearer what the malice is? I don't even think I need to explain that to people who are watching the show. It is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize," she said. As the Erik Wemple Blog pointed out yesterday, the DCCC had plenty of company in its interpretation of Limbaugh's remarks. Though Glaser knows the legal issues surrounding Limbaugh's claims, she earns no self-awareness points. By saying "You can't maliciously attack people," Glaser invites comparison with Limbaugh's 2012 offensive against Sandra Fluke, then a Georgetown University law student who had given testimony on Capitol Hill on the importance of contraception coverage in insurance plans. Limbaugh proceeded to hammer her for being a "slut," a "prostitute" and many other things. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote about Limbaugh's fine appreciation of context in the Fluke case: All of this bile followed from his assertion that she testified about her own extremely active sex life. Here's the thing: She didn't. She said nothing whatsoever about her own sex life. She did not mention her own contraceptive needs at all: She spoke passionately and eloquently, and respectfully, about several friends of hers, Georgetown students who she said were diagnosed with medical conditions requiring the birth control pill, but who could not get it because they could not afford it. That was it. Here is the transcript of her testimony. Following a huge uproar, Limbaugh apologized to Fluke for his "word choices." Limbaugh & Co., said Glaser, wants the DCCC to make amends: "We want an apology. We want a retraction. And we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated," she told Hannity. As for the Fox News host, he sounded excited about a legal proceeding: "You know what, it's a serious issue, because I think you're right," Hannity said. "And as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. And in this case I believe they so crossed the line. It's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. I think they're going to be surprised." Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts.

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With "Amer," the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema. Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots, the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film's central character. "We are using forms, image and sound as if they were words," Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach. Mr. Forzani added, "We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money. And so we developed a language constructed with a lot of close-ups." Before shooting their work on film, the co-directors created all of their shots on video, with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead. Below is a look at a scene from that rehearsal video, then a look at the same scene from the completed film.

With '' Amer , '' the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema . Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots , the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film 's central character . '' We are using forms , image and sound as if they were words , '' Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach .

With "Amer," the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema. Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots, the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film's central character. "We are using forms, image and sound as if they were words," Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach. Mr. Forzani added, "We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money. And so we developed a language constructed with a lot of close-ups." Before shooting their work on film, the co-directors created all of their shots on video, with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead. Below is a look at a scene from that rehearsal video, then a look at the same scene from the completed film.

A scene from the rehearsal video for the film '' Amer , '' then the same scene as in the completed film .

With "Amer," the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema. Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots, the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film's central character. "We are using forms, image and sound as if they were words," Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach. Mr. Forzani added, "We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money. And so we developed a language constructed with a lot of close-ups." Before shooting their work on film, the co-directors created all of their shots on video, with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead. Below is a look at a scene from that rehearsal video, then a look at the same scene from the completed film.

Mr. Forzani added , '' We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money . '' Before shooting their work on film , the co - directors created all of their shots on video , with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead .

With "Amer," the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema. Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots, the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film's central character. "We are using forms, image and sound as if they were words," Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach. Mr. Forzani added, "We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money. And so we developed a language constructed with a lot of close-ups." Before shooting their work on film, the co-directors created all of their shots on video, with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead. Below is a look at a scene from that rehearsal video, then a look at the same scene from the completed film.

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With "Amer," the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema. Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots, the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film's central character. "We are using forms, image and sound as if they were words," Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach. Mr. Forzani added, "We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money. And so we developed a language constructed with a lot of close-ups." Before shooting their work on film, the co-directors created all of their shots on video, with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead. Below is a look at a scene from that rehearsal video, then a look at the same scene from the completed film.

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With "Amer," the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet pay homage to Italian giallo horror movies while creating their own unique piece of experimental cinema. Using minimal dialogue and hundreds of meticulous shots, the filmmakers take a pensive look at three phases of the life of the film's central character. "We are using forms, image and sound as if they were words," Ms. Cattet said about their cinematic approach. Mr. Forzani added, "We had to find a way to have nice form with not a lot of money. And so we developed a language constructed with a lot of close-ups." Before shooting their work on film, the co-directors created all of their shots on video, with Ms. Cattet standing in for their lead. Below is a look at a scene from that rehearsal video, then a look at the same scene from the completed film.

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"We don't want people coming back or visiting," Nugent said. The town is still in an "imminent danger of fire," with several fires still burning nearby. "I can see black smoke behind the courthouse," she said. The fire in Presidio County has grown to 80,000 acres with only 10% containment, the Forest Service said early Monday. That growth, according to fire operations chief Mark Sanford, came after the fire "made a 12-mile run on Saturday." Officials still don't know what caused the fast-moving fire, he said. Despite the damage, Nugent said things could be much worse. "Tourism is huge" in Fort Davis, she said, but none of the tourist structures have been burned. The downtown and the historic fort buildings are unscathed, she said. The blaze, known as the Rock House fire, is currently the largest fire burning in the United States and is just one of 10 fires burning more than 312,000 acres in Texas. Another 34 homes have burned in a fire in Midland County that has consumed over 16,500 acres and that the state agency on Sunday described as "very active" and not at all contained, officials said. A Red Cross shelter has been set up at Midland College for those displaced or otherwise affected by this wildfire. "(Firefighters) can't outrun it," said Alan Craft, a spokesman for the state's Lone Star Incident Management Team. Another large fire near Swenson has scorched some 103,000 acres in three counties, according to the state Forest Service. Spokeswoman April Saginor said officials believe the Swenson fire has been that large for a couple of days, but were not able to remap it until Monday. As of Sunday night, the blaze across parts of Stonewall, Knox and King counties was totally uncontained despite the use of air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and personnel, a statement from the Forest Service said. Official say this fire was caused by a man cutting a pipe.

'' We do n't want people coming back or visiting , '' Nugent said . The town is still in an '' imminent danger of fire , '' with several fires still burning nearby . '' I can see black smoke behind the courthouse , '' she said .

"We don't want people coming back or visiting," Nugent said. The town is still in an "imminent danger of fire," with several fires still burning nearby. "I can see black smoke behind the courthouse," she said. The fire in Presidio County has grown to 80,000 acres with only 10% containment, the Forest Service said early Monday. That growth, according to fire operations chief Mark Sanford, came after the fire "made a 12-mile run on Saturday." Officials still don't know what caused the fast-moving fire, he said. Despite the damage, Nugent said things could be much worse. "Tourism is huge" in Fort Davis, she said, but none of the tourist structures have been burned. The downtown and the historic fort buildings are unscathed, she said. The blaze, known as the Rock House fire, is currently the largest fire burning in the United States and is just one of 10 fires burning more than 312,000 acres in Texas. Another 34 homes have burned in a fire in Midland County that has consumed over 16,500 acres and that the state agency on Sunday described as "very active" and not at all contained, officials said. A Red Cross shelter has been set up at Midland College for those displaced or otherwise affected by this wildfire. "(Firefighters) can't outrun it," said Alan Craft, a spokesman for the state's Lone Star Incident Management Team. Another large fire near Swenson has scorched some 103,000 acres in three counties, according to the state Forest Service. Spokeswoman April Saginor said officials believe the Swenson fire has been that large for a couple of days, but were not able to remap it until Monday. As of Sunday night, the blaze across parts of Stonewall, Knox and King counties was totally uncontained despite the use of air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and personnel, a statement from the Forest Service said. Official say this fire was caused by a man cutting a pipe.

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"We don't want people coming back or visiting," Nugent said. The town is still in an "imminent danger of fire," with several fires still burning nearby. "I can see black smoke behind the courthouse," she said. The fire in Presidio County has grown to 80,000 acres with only 10% containment, the Forest Service said early Monday. That growth, according to fire operations chief Mark Sanford, came after the fire "made a 12-mile run on Saturday." Officials still don't know what caused the fast-moving fire, he said. Despite the damage, Nugent said things could be much worse. "Tourism is huge" in Fort Davis, she said, but none of the tourist structures have been burned. The downtown and the historic fort buildings are unscathed, she said. The blaze, known as the Rock House fire, is currently the largest fire burning in the United States and is just one of 10 fires burning more than 312,000 acres in Texas. Another 34 homes have burned in a fire in Midland County that has consumed over 16,500 acres and that the state agency on Sunday described as "very active" and not at all contained, officials said. A Red Cross shelter has been set up at Midland College for those displaced or otherwise affected by this wildfire. "(Firefighters) can't outrun it," said Alan Craft, a spokesman for the state's Lone Star Incident Management Team. Another large fire near Swenson has scorched some 103,000 acres in three counties, according to the state Forest Service. Spokeswoman April Saginor said officials believe the Swenson fire has been that large for a couple of days, but were not able to remap it until Monday. As of Sunday night, the blaze across parts of Stonewall, Knox and King counties was totally uncontained despite the use of air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and personnel, a statement from the Forest Service said. Official say this fire was caused by a man cutting a pipe.

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"We don't want people coming back or visiting," Nugent said. The town is still in an "imminent danger of fire," with several fires still burning nearby. "I can see black smoke behind the courthouse," she said. The fire in Presidio County has grown to 80,000 acres with only 10% containment, the Forest Service said early Monday. That growth, according to fire operations chief Mark Sanford, came after the fire "made a 12-mile run on Saturday." Officials still don't know what caused the fast-moving fire, he said. Despite the damage, Nugent said things could be much worse. "Tourism is huge" in Fort Davis, she said, but none of the tourist structures have been burned. The downtown and the historic fort buildings are unscathed, she said. The blaze, known as the Rock House fire, is currently the largest fire burning in the United States and is just one of 10 fires burning more than 312,000 acres in Texas. Another 34 homes have burned in a fire in Midland County that has consumed over 16,500 acres and that the state agency on Sunday described as "very active" and not at all contained, officials said. A Red Cross shelter has been set up at Midland College for those displaced or otherwise affected by this wildfire. "(Firefighters) can't outrun it," said Alan Craft, a spokesman for the state's Lone Star Incident Management Team. Another large fire near Swenson has scorched some 103,000 acres in three counties, according to the state Forest Service. Spokeswoman April Saginor said officials believe the Swenson fire has been that large for a couple of days, but were not able to remap it until Monday. As of Sunday night, the blaze across parts of Stonewall, Knox and King counties was totally uncontained despite the use of air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and personnel, a statement from the Forest Service said. Official say this fire was caused by a man cutting a pipe.

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"We don't want people coming back or visiting," Nugent said. The town is still in an "imminent danger of fire," with several fires still burning nearby. "I can see black smoke behind the courthouse," she said. The fire in Presidio County has grown to 80,000 acres with only 10% containment, the Forest Service said early Monday. That growth, according to fire operations chief Mark Sanford, came after the fire "made a 12-mile run on Saturday." Officials still don't know what caused the fast-moving fire, he said. Despite the damage, Nugent said things could be much worse. "Tourism is huge" in Fort Davis, she said, but none of the tourist structures have been burned. The downtown and the historic fort buildings are unscathed, she said. The blaze, known as the Rock House fire, is currently the largest fire burning in the United States and is just one of 10 fires burning more than 312,000 acres in Texas. Another 34 homes have burned in a fire in Midland County that has consumed over 16,500 acres and that the state agency on Sunday described as "very active" and not at all contained, officials said. A Red Cross shelter has been set up at Midland College for those displaced or otherwise affected by this wildfire. "(Firefighters) can't outrun it," said Alan Craft, a spokesman for the state's Lone Star Incident Management Team. Another large fire near Swenson has scorched some 103,000 acres in three counties, according to the state Forest Service. Spokeswoman April Saginor said officials believe the Swenson fire has been that large for a couple of days, but were not able to remap it until Monday. As of Sunday night, the blaze across parts of Stonewall, Knox and King counties was totally uncontained despite the use of air resources, bulldozers, fire engines and other tools and personnel, a statement from the Forest Service said. Official say this fire was caused by a man cutting a pipe.

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A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment , raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids . The case of the 18-year - old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver , Canada , by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her . Like the so - called Mississippi baby , she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life .

A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

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A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

Like the so - called Mississippi baby , she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life . Sáez - Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies , of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life .

A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

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A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

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A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

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A French teenager who was infected with HIV as a baby and given intensive drug therapy in early childhood has lived for more than 12 years without any treatment, raising hopes among scientists searching for a cure for Aids. The case of the 18-year-old was presented at an Aids conference in Vancouver, Canada, by doctors at the Institut Pasteur who treated her. Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Both children were denied follow-up care when their parents took them out of medical treatment and did not give them the prescribed drugs. The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Doctors talked in terms of a "functional cure", because the child had no detectable virus. However, the remission lasted only 27 months before the viral levels rose again in the child's body. HIV scientists confessed to disappointment, although they said they would learn a huge amount from the case. This time there is more caution. It is the first case of long-term remission in a child, say the French team, but they accept that it may not be permanent. The child was born to a woman with untreated HIV and was given a drug for six weeks after her birth to try to prevent infection, but to no avail. Two months after the prophylactic drug was stopped, tests showed the infant had a high viral load and she was put on a cocktail of three antiretroviral medicines, which is the standard treatment for HIV. When the girl was six years old, the family decided to stop the drugs and for six months doctors did not have contact with her. But when she was brought back, tests showed she had no detectable traces of the virus in her body. Twelve years and no drugs later, it is still undetectable – although experience has shown that does not mean there is not a hidden reservoir. There are people known as "elite controllers" whose immune systems appear to keep the virus at bay, but according to Dr Asier Sáez-Cirión, of the HIV, inflammation and persistence unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Frenchwoman does not have the genetic factors associated with those. "Most likely she has been in virological remission for so long because she received a combination of antiretrovirals very soon after infection." That happened with a group of 14 adults in France, known as the Visconti cohort. They were treated with drugs soon after infection and all except two still have no detectable virus, even though they stopped taking the drugs years ago. Scientists think early treatment may limit the development of reservoirs of HIV and preserve the body's immune system defences. Sáez-Cirión said there were 580 people in France who contracted HIV as babies, of whom about 100 were given drug treatment within the first six months of life. Of those, 15 stopped treatment, but the virus rebounded within weeks or months in 13 of them. Of the two remaining, one lasted for three years without needing drugs and the other is the young woman who has been off treatment for 12 years. She has a healthy life with no complications, but this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission "She is doing perfectly well," said Sáez-Cirión. "She has a healthy life with no complications." But he added: "Very clearly this girl is not cured. We're talking about remission." The case was presented at the eighth International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention. Prof Sharon Lewin, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said she thought it was interesting, but added: "We really need to move beyond these anecdotal cases in our quest for a cure … the child received medication early after birth. We don't know whether she would have controlled the virus anyway without receiving the medication. About 1% of people can do that." Lewin, a member of the IAS Global Initiative Towards an HIV Cure, said trials were needed. It was universally recognised that people with HIV should be put on treatment as soon as possible after diagnosis. Itwas possible that some who had been treated early in their infection might be able to stop taking the drugs, but that had to be properly tested. "The only way we can address this is in a trial where we start a group of people very early on treatment and then randomise them to stop," she said. "These studies are happening in Thailand at the moment. They are going to be really informative."

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Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

Milton Friedman ( 1912 - -2006 ) , the champion of free - market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago , would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace . Whatever your views on economic freedom , you have to make the most of the situation . Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation .

Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

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Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

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Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

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Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

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Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

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Milton Friedman (1912--2006), the champion of free-market economics and the hero of my student years at the University of Chicago, would have been appalled at the recent intrusion of government into the marketplace. Whatever your views on economic freedom, you have to make the most of the situation. Herewith are some companies poised to benefit from the heavy hand of government regulation. The congressionally mandated switch to digital broadcasting that went into effect on June 12 is a boon toDG FastChannel (dgIT, 19), which distributes advertising spots to tv stations and other outlets. In the old days videotapes of ads were shipped to broadcasters. DG puts servers at broadcasters' sites that receive ads electronically, charging customers less than they'd pay for physical delivery. Two-thirds of ads today are electronically distributed, and DG owns the lion's share of the market. As advertisers shoot more commercials in high definition, DG has the opportunity to boost revenue because it charges more for hd content. Juicy margins will invite competition, but DG's large network of stations creates a significant barrier to entry. Shares trade for 17 times my forward earnings estimate of $1.10 per share, a 60% increase over earnings in the most recent 12 months. American Superconductor ( AMSC - news - people )(AMSC, 25) is benefiting from increasing spending on wind power by the Chinese government. as sells wind turbine designs and associated power electronics. Two-thirds of its revenue comes from Sinovel, a state-owned Chinese company. That is both good and bad. The dependence on Sinovel was a big help during last year's downturn, but in the future it could be a significant risk. as also makes high-temperature superconducting wire with carrying capacity 150 times that of copper wire, perfect for the global upgrade to a more efficient electrical grid. The superconductor division is not yet profitable, but the rest of the business should earn $1.35 a share over the next year. I expect 30% annual earnings gains over the next five years. Fuel Tech (FTEK, 10) develops technology to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from power plants. Fuel Tech stumbled last summer when the U.S. District Court of Appeals vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's rule spelling out timetables for NOX reduction across the eastern half of the U.S. In a surprise move the same Court of Appeals reinstated the Clean Air Interstate Rule in December, and it went into effect on Jan. 1 as originally scheduled. Fuel Tech also sells chemicals that are tossed into a coal burner to fight slag and thereby boost power plant efficiency. The company generates most of its revenue in the U.S., but management is looking to expand in emerging markets like China and eastern Europe, where pollution-control technology is still quite new. Fuel Tech shares look expensive at 78 times my earnings projection of 15 cents a share for the 12 months beginning in July, but I expect rapid growth. It is reasonable to expect earnings of 60 cents a share in 2010. President Obama's proposed focus on cybersecurity will benefit ArcSight ( ARST - news - people )(ARST, 17). ArcSight's software collects and correlates user activity and event data across an enterprise so that businesses can rapidly identify and respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyberattacks and insider threats. For example, if a user is logged in to the network from home and subsequently tries to enter the office by scanning his badge at the entrance, an alert is issued. ArcSight's software was developed for the government, and its client list boasts 20 federal agencies. Corporations are adopting ArcSight to comply with data-security provisions of such laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and the health care privacy paperwork statute that goes by the acronym HIPAA. Shares trade for 31 times my earnings estimate of 55 cents for the 12 months ending April 2010. Investing with the tides of legislative change has its perils. The rules of the game can change quickly, and budgets can be changed at the whim of the elected. The four companies I mention above have technologies that are effective on their own merits and are poised to benefit from the way the political winds are blowing now. Jim Oberweis is president of Oberweis Asset Management and editor of the Oberweis Report. For more information visit www.forbes.com/oberweis Special Offer: Free Trial Issue of Forbes

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It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams 's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open . They are not close , the Russian and the American , whom she has not managed to beat since 2004 , when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon , aged 17 . For an hour or so on Tuesday , however , the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami , as the lean - limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take - downs .

It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

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It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

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It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

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It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

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It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

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It is not unreasonable to speculate that Maria Sharapova indulged in a loud celebration of Serena Williams's crushing loss to the world No35 Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round of this French Open. They are not close, the Russian and the American, whom she has not managed to beat since 2004, when she prevailed in the final at Wimbledon, aged 17. For an hour or so on Tuesday, however, the schadenfreude resided with the chastened world No1 back in Miami, as the lean-limbed young Spanish upstart looked like adding Sharapova to her short but impressive hit list of celebrity take-downs. She was poised to embarrass the faltering seventh seed after a first-set blitz of powerful, confident hitting from all angles, but the grind got to her. Sharapova, as she has done now in her past 18 three-setters on clay (and 25 of 26 overall), was too strong of mind and body over the longer distance, taking a tick over two hours to win 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. So the tournament gets the glamour semi-final it craved: Sharapova, thrashed by Williams in last year's final, against the rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a marginally tougher time of it on Court Suzanne Lenglen. She held off the spirited challenge of another Spaniard, the 14th seed Carla Suárez Navarro, to win 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes, and bootleg seats on Court Philippe Chatrier for their match on Thursday will sell like those along the catwalk in Milan. Muguruza, in her first slam quarter-final and with nothing to lose, came close to securing a footnote in the game's history as the first player to beat both Sharapova and Williams in the same slam. However, Muguruza's tennis disintegrated into shards of overcooked groundstrokes as the fist-pumping diva at the other end again dipped into her considerable reserves of determination. On Lenglen shortly afterwards, Bouchard hit a double fault on match point but repaired the damage with a stunning cross-court backhand and tried again. As with Muguruza, Suárez Navarro left the stage with a limp, netted backhand, struck single-handedly. Both are interesting players with big games. If they are to break through when it matters, though, they will have to cope with the added pressure of expectation. Bouchard has taken just 10 games off Sharapova in 30, baggage that will be hard to carry into the first semi-final. But, like Muguruza, she has nothing to lose. Sharapova had difficulty later understanding a tweet by Andy Murray's mother, Judy, and swore she had no idea who she was. The tweet was simple and clever – "Sharapova is like a tea bag. Put her into hot water, and ul find out how strong she is" – but the player looked nonplussed. And when Sharapova was reminded of a photo of her with Bouchard as a young girl, currently hitting the airwaves on Twitter, she struggled to recall the moment. "My first memory? Probably when she was playing the juniors. I don't know how many years that was ago. I think when she received a wildcard into a tournament in Canada." Sharapova does tennis. She is not big on jokes and sentiment. The women nevertheless outshone the men on day 10, although Ernests Gulbis sustained his eye-catching run with a stylish, serve-led demolition of Tomas Berdych that will give the world No2 Novak Djokovic plenty to ponder before their semi-final on Thursday. On a buzzing Lenglen court, Gulbis, by a little way the most intriguing figure in the men's game, with talent to back his candour, allowed himself a lightbulb smile when Berdych stuck his closing effort into the netting. Coming off the best result of his wayward career – over Roger Federer in five sets on Sunday – he showed he had plenty left in his some times unreliable legs to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, in three minutes less than it took Sharapova to beat Muguruza. won his match 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, but Djokovic made much harder work of beating Milos Raonic, who fought hard all the way to the end of the first two sets then launched a late fightback from 1-5 in the third before the Serb closed it out on his own serve, 7-5, 7-6, 6-4. It might well have sounded absurd to say Gulbis would be a credible challenger for this title after he lost his first set of the tournament, 4-6 against the world No63 Lukasz Kubot. If he wins his last set of the tournament, we will be writing quite a different story.

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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday , after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region 's economy . '' We 've gone from day - to - day volatility to intraday volatility , '' Mark Luschini , chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott , said . '' A progression of events caused this , in the context of a market that is scared anyway , with the VIX trading above 20 , '' Peter Boockvar , chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group , said of the market 's about face . ''

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

With the fourth - quarter earnings season started , investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude 's decline on the S&P 500 's collective bottom line , with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six - year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel 's decision not to reduce output .

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

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U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries germany would throw cold water the region 's economy . `` we 've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility , '' mark luschini , chief market strategist at janney montgomery scott , said . `` a progression of events caused this , in the context of a market that is scared anyway , with the market 's about face . `` copper prices are falling out of bed , down 5 percent , the

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

u.s. stocks fell on tuesday after a near 300-point rally on the dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries germany would throw cold water on the european central bank taking additional steps to bolster the region 's economy .

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, after a near 300-point rally on the Dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries Germany would throw cold water on the European Central Bank taking additional steps to bolster the region's economy. "We've gone from day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility," Mark Luschini, chief market strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, said. "A progression of events caused this, in the context of a market that is scared anyway, with the VIX trading above 20," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, said of the market's about face. "Copper prices are falling out of bed, down 5 percent, that tells you something about global growth, that something is not right," Boockvar added. Reports from overseas that had Germany downplaying the notion of further quantitative easing by the ECB helped push the market lower, Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said. "There are rumors that Germany is botching quantitative easing, and the market is looking for QE to come out on Jan. 22. It's a non-trivial worry, when you're talking about a eurozone that in the aggregate is almost the size of the U.S. economy," Luschini said. "And, there's continuation of pressure from crude prices; investors are still trying to ascertain if lower energy prices are good or bad for stocks," Hogan said. KB Home led declines among homebuilders after it projected a "significant" drop in gross margins in the current quarter; Apple shares surged after Credit Suisse upgraded the supplier of consumer technology to outperform from neutral. With the fourth-quarter earnings season started, investors are on the lookout for the the effect of crude's decline on the S&P 500's collective bottom line, with oil prices on Tuesday falling to near six-year lows as a major OPEC producer stuck to the cartel's decision not to reduce output. "Major parts of the global economy are likely to be economic black holes this year, and likely to put downward pressure on optimistic earnings estimates for the first half if not all of 2015," Jim Russell, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor, said. "Aluminum production is an energy hog, so the cheaper oil prices definitely helped Alcoa," said Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at Everbank. Still, Alcoa's initial gains evaporated, with the aluminum producer turning lower after reporting better-than-expected results late Monday. Read MoreFederated's Orlando: 4Q earnings bears 'smoking dope'

u.s. stocks fell on tuesday , after a near 300-point rally on the dow evaporated amid falling commodity prices and worries germany would throw cold water on the european central bank taking additional steps to bolster the region 's economy a progression of day-to-day volatility to intraday volatility , '' mark luschini , chief market strategist at janney montgomery scott , said .

Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

Writer - director Richard Linklater has described his latest film , '' Everybody Wants Some ! ! , '' as a '' spiritual sequel '' to 1993 's '' Dazed and Confused . ''

Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

'' Everybody Wants Some ! ! '' : A of college baseball players in 1980 Texas party and their through the last few days before school starts .

Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

! '' what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey 's horndog Wooderson from '' Dazed and Confused '' ? Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship , and the movie is steeped in the lazy , rivalrous minutiae of college ball .

Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

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Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

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Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

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Writer-director Richard Linklater has described his latest film, "Everybody Wants Some!!," as a "spiritual sequel" to 1993's "Dazed and Confused." That made my heart fibrillate a little, and maybe yours too. Beginning with its shot of a Pontiac GTO pulling doughnuts in a high school parking lot to Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," "Dazed" is such a humane approximation of what it was like to come of age in the mid-1970s that one wishes it would never end. On the evidence of "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy, though, Linklater doesn't want any of his movies to end. Thus "Everybody Wants Some!!" Which at first is different, sometimes jarringly so, before wading into the open-armed embrace of experience that marks this filmmaker's finest work. The tipoffs are those double exclamation points and an onscreen title font that recalls a Skinemax late-night movie circa 1981. What if you took one of that era's hormone-drenched stu-coms and put real people in it? The year is 1980, actually, and Jake (Blake Jenner from "Glee") is arriving for his freshman year at (the fictional) Southeastern Texas State University. A high school pitching star and rangy college prospect, he's assigned an off-campus baseball dorm with the other players. It's a ready-made animal house, with rules laid down by a briefly seen coach (Jonathan Breck) that are immediately ignored. Occasionally we'll get an onscreen reminder of how many dwindling days and hours remain before classes begin. These, too, are ignored. Instead, Linklater parks his cameras to observe, with indulgence and much good humor, the bonding rituals of young men who only think they have it figured out. Jake's housemates fall into general categories that re-sort themselves into individual personalities: The motor-mouthed ladies' man Finnegan (Glen Powell), the Zen surfer-stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), uber-competitive McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), country rube Billy (Will Brittain), smartass Nesbit (Austin Amelio), naïve Brumley (Tanner Kalina). And so on. A few stand slightly outside the pack: the over-confident psycho-nerd pitcher Jay Niles (Juston Street, freakily funny) and the laconic second base star Dale Douglas (J. Quinton Johnson), whose blackness is rarely commented on. Where are the women? There to be chased and partied with and seduced. "This is college, Jake," the hero is told early on. "The girls can be as big sluts as the guys." Oh, dear. Is "Everybody Wants Some!!" what happens when you people an entire Richard Linklater movie with Matthew McConaughey's horndog Wooderson from "Dazed and Confused"? Yes and no, or, rather, yes, but only at first. As the boys sprawl through the last days of summer, the swagger that borders on smug begins to mellow and melt away. Searching for good times and girls, they hop from a disco one night to a country and western bar the next to a punk mosh pit to an art-student costume party, minds open, adapting, ever-changing. After a while, the hero starts having a smallish identity crisis, confessing that "it sort of begs the question of who we are." Well, yes. This is college, Jake. Even a high school sports star can be anyone he wants. The movie eventually spins him off from the crowd into the arms of Beverly (Zoey Deutch), a tartly ardent stage arts freshman with Joni Mitchell posters on her wall. She's unpretentious for a theater brat, he's smart and soulful for a jock, and the two stand dazzled in the Venn diagram overlap of their attraction. These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of "Back to the Future" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter. More second-generation pleasures: Wyatt Russell, who plays the woolly baseball mystic Willoughby, is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, and he has a high old time — emphasis on high — explaining to his teammates why "Fearless," from the 1971 album "Meddle," is the best track that Pink Floyd ever recorded. Because he is correct, I am awarding "Everybody Wants Some!!" an extra half-star. Linklater was a high school baseball player who went to Sam Houston State on a scholarship, and the movie is steeped in the lazy, rivalrous minutiae of college ball. Willoughby gets off a moment of bliss when he muses on the pleasures of pitching — "It's lovely out there on the bump," he says — and we learn that it's the .230 hitters who are always the most superstitious. Also that it's possible to slice a pitched baseball in half with an ax. At one point, one of the characters gazes with incredulity at a crowd of fellow students and says, "I know what we're doing here. We're playing baseball. What are they doing here?" "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era. Beverly drives a Gremlin, Jake knows the secret of winning at "Space Invaders," and people can still confidently begin sentences with the words, "It's like Carl Sagan says. . ." What "Sweet Emotion" was to "Dazed and Confused," so the Knack's "My Sharona" is to this movie, and the soundtrack rolls forward from there: glorious junk from the days when Eddie Rabbitt, Eddie Money, Sniff 'n' the Tears, and the BusBoys meant something. All that's missing is a plot. But Linklater doesn't do plot; he does life. Says Powell's garrulous Finnegan, summing up the art of both this movie and this moviemaker, "I don't think at all. I just talk a lot. It's jazz improv. You're invited." And so are we. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Tyler Hoechlin, Juston Street. At Boston Common, Kendall Square. 117 minutes. R (boys being boys: language throughout, sexual content, drug use, some nudity, some baseball).

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"It's an iPhone. There's so much hype about it," she said. "You just have to get it." In San Francisco, there were no shoppers lined up early Thursday at an Apple store downtown, and only a small line at a nearby Verizon store. By contrast, thousands have lined up for the release of previous Apple products, including the initial launch of the iPhone 4 in June. In the past, many shoppers have even slept outside all night to ensure being among the first to get a new Apple gadget. The Verizon iPhone's hardware is similar to the existing iPhone -- the big difference being that it works on Verizon's network instead of AT&T, which has had exclusive rights as the iPhone's wireless carrier since 2007. The new iPhone went on sale at 7 a.m. Thursday at Verizon and Apple stores, at Best Buy and on the retailer's websites. With a two-year contract, it retails for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-order, making it among the biggest phone debuts on the Verizon network. Pre-orders for the phone sold out within a day, according to Mashable. The phone became available again available for internet purchase Wednesday. Customers have been calling for Apple to offer the iPhone on networks other than AT&T for years, in part because that network is known for dropped calls. Consumer Reports surveys consistently rank AT&T below competitors in terms of customer satisfaction. Larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco, have experienced particular problems with dropped calls and a lack of mobile broadband service on AT&T, to a certain degree because so many data-heavy iPhone users contributed to jamming the network.

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"It's an iPhone. There's so much hype about it," she said. "You just have to get it." In San Francisco, there were no shoppers lined up early Thursday at an Apple store downtown, and only a small line at a nearby Verizon store. By contrast, thousands have lined up for the release of previous Apple products, including the initial launch of the iPhone 4 in June. In the past, many shoppers have even slept outside all night to ensure being among the first to get a new Apple gadget. The Verizon iPhone's hardware is similar to the existing iPhone -- the big difference being that it works on Verizon's network instead of AT&T, which has had exclusive rights as the iPhone's wireless carrier since 2007. The new iPhone went on sale at 7 a.m. Thursday at Verizon and Apple stores, at Best Buy and on the retailer's websites. With a two-year contract, it retails for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-order, making it among the biggest phone debuts on the Verizon network. Pre-orders for the phone sold out within a day, according to Mashable. The phone became available again available for internet purchase Wednesday. Customers have been calling for Apple to offer the iPhone on networks other than AT&T for years, in part because that network is known for dropped calls. Consumer Reports surveys consistently rank AT&T below competitors in terms of customer satisfaction. Larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco, have experienced particular problems with dropped calls and a lack of mobile broadband service on AT&T, to a certain degree because so many data-heavy iPhone users contributed to jamming the network.

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"It's an iPhone. There's so much hype about it," she said. "You just have to get it." In San Francisco, there were no shoppers lined up early Thursday at an Apple store downtown, and only a small line at a nearby Verizon store. By contrast, thousands have lined up for the release of previous Apple products, including the initial launch of the iPhone 4 in June. In the past, many shoppers have even slept outside all night to ensure being among the first to get a new Apple gadget. The Verizon iPhone's hardware is similar to the existing iPhone -- the big difference being that it works on Verizon's network instead of AT&T, which has had exclusive rights as the iPhone's wireless carrier since 2007. The new iPhone went on sale at 7 a.m. Thursday at Verizon and Apple stores, at Best Buy and on the retailer's websites. With a two-year contract, it retails for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-order, making it among the biggest phone debuts on the Verizon network. Pre-orders for the phone sold out within a day, according to Mashable. The phone became available again available for internet purchase Wednesday. Customers have been calling for Apple to offer the iPhone on networks other than AT&T for years, in part because that network is known for dropped calls. Consumer Reports surveys consistently rank AT&T below competitors in terms of customer satisfaction. Larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco, have experienced particular problems with dropped calls and a lack of mobile broadband service on AT&T, to a certain degree because so many data-heavy iPhone users contributed to jamming the network.

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"It's an iPhone. There's so much hype about it," she said. "You just have to get it." In San Francisco, there were no shoppers lined up early Thursday at an Apple store downtown, and only a small line at a nearby Verizon store. By contrast, thousands have lined up for the release of previous Apple products, including the initial launch of the iPhone 4 in June. In the past, many shoppers have even slept outside all night to ensure being among the first to get a new Apple gadget. The Verizon iPhone's hardware is similar to the existing iPhone -- the big difference being that it works on Verizon's network instead of AT&T, which has had exclusive rights as the iPhone's wireless carrier since 2007. The new iPhone went on sale at 7 a.m. Thursday at Verizon and Apple stores, at Best Buy and on the retailer's websites. With a two-year contract, it retails for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-order, making it among the biggest phone debuts on the Verizon network. Pre-orders for the phone sold out within a day, according to Mashable. The phone became available again available for internet purchase Wednesday. Customers have been calling for Apple to offer the iPhone on networks other than AT&T for years, in part because that network is known for dropped calls. Consumer Reports surveys consistently rank AT&T below competitors in terms of customer satisfaction. Larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco, have experienced particular problems with dropped calls and a lack of mobile broadband service on AT&T, to a certain degree because so many data-heavy iPhone users contributed to jamming the network.

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"It's an iPhone. There's so much hype about it," she said. "You just have to get it." In San Francisco, there were no shoppers lined up early Thursday at an Apple store downtown, and only a small line at a nearby Verizon store. By contrast, thousands have lined up for the release of previous Apple products, including the initial launch of the iPhone 4 in June. In the past, many shoppers have even slept outside all night to ensure being among the first to get a new Apple gadget. The Verizon iPhone's hardware is similar to the existing iPhone -- the big difference being that it works on Verizon's network instead of AT&T, which has had exclusive rights as the iPhone's wireless carrier since 2007. The new iPhone went on sale at 7 a.m. Thursday at Verizon and Apple stores, at Best Buy and on the retailer's websites. With a two-year contract, it retails for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-order, making it among the biggest phone debuts on the Verizon network. Pre-orders for the phone sold out within a day, according to Mashable. The phone became available again available for internet purchase Wednesday. Customers have been calling for Apple to offer the iPhone on networks other than AT&T for years, in part because that network is known for dropped calls. Consumer Reports surveys consistently rank AT&T below competitors in terms of customer satisfaction. Larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco, have experienced particular problems with dropped calls and a lack of mobile broadband service on AT&T, to a certain degree because so many data-heavy iPhone users contributed to jamming the network.

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"It's an iPhone. There's so much hype about it," she said. "You just have to get it." In San Francisco, there were no shoppers lined up early Thursday at an Apple store downtown, and only a small line at a nearby Verizon store. By contrast, thousands have lined up for the release of previous Apple products, including the initial launch of the iPhone 4 in June. In the past, many shoppers have even slept outside all night to ensure being among the first to get a new Apple gadget. The Verizon iPhone's hardware is similar to the existing iPhone -- the big difference being that it works on Verizon's network instead of AT&T, which has had exclusive rights as the iPhone's wireless carrier since 2007. The new iPhone went on sale at 7 a.m. Thursday at Verizon and Apple stores, at Best Buy and on the retailer's websites. With a two-year contract, it retails for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-order, making it among the biggest phone debuts on the Verizon network. Pre-orders for the phone sold out within a day, according to Mashable. The phone became available again available for internet purchase Wednesday. Customers have been calling for Apple to offer the iPhone on networks other than AT&T for years, in part because that network is known for dropped calls. Consumer Reports surveys consistently rank AT&T below competitors in terms of customer satisfaction. Larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco, have experienced particular problems with dropped calls and a lack of mobile broadband service on AT&T, to a certain degree because so many data-heavy iPhone users contributed to jamming the network.

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Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified . ( Sarah Parnass / The Washington Post ) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal , as some are now calling it , came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers did n't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later -- just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit .

Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

Invoking the name of hatchet man Sidney Blumenthal does n't that Hillary Clinton did wrong .

Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

Gowdy , for his part , found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal 's advice ( which he got from a former intelligence official ) to people including Stevens .

Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

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Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

name of sidney blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times -- exactly the other three americans slain in benghazi -- sean smith , the longtime clinton friend . by lunchtime , blumenthal had been invoked 49 times -- exactly the

Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

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Here are top moments from the House Select Committee hearing on Benghazi where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton testified. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The House Select Committee on Blumenthal, as some are now calling it, came to order at 10 a.m. Lawmakers didn't finish questioning Hillary Clinton until 11 hours later — just after the Democratic presidential candidate succumbed to a coughing fit. In that period of time, the name of Sidney Blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times, and scores of questions were asked about the longtime Clinton friend. By lunchtime, Blumenthal had been invoked 49 times — exactly the number of mentions of J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya whose death in Benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe. The other three Americans slain in Benghazi — Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods — got seven or eight mentions apiece, then-CIA director David Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates each got two, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had none. Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), reading from Blumenthal's e-mails to Clinton as if he were the teacher who had intercepted a note passed between two high school kids, said Blumenthal referred to Gates as "a mean, vicious little"— Gowdy paused. "I'm not going to say the word, but he did." He also quoted Blumenthal referring to then- national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon's "babbling rhetoric," and he said Blumenthal had referred to "Obama" (he "left the 'president' part out") and "his political cronies in the White House and Chicago." Clinton refused to get riled. "I don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of deaths of four Americans," she said. But Gowdy knew. A couple of minutes later, he announced: "I'll tell you what: If you think you've heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round." He and his colleagues made good on that statement, posing questions on a Blumenthal visit to Clinton's home, about his work for the Clinton Foundation, his business interests, his attempt to get a job at the State Department and his communication with the former secretary of state over matters as mundane as her new iPad. They were particularly concerned with whether Blumenthal's advice to Clinton on Libya was "unsolicited." The Blumenthal focus shows that, after 17 months of probing Clinton, the Benghazi committee hasn't come up with much. Blumenthal has been a Clinton hatchet man for years, and he has an unsavory reputation. The very mention of his name (he was prominent during the Monica Lewinsky scandal) lends a whiff of skulduggery to any situation. But injecting Blumenthal as a central character in the Benghazi probe doesn't help Republicans demonstrate that Clinton did wrong. And the justification for invoking him — to demonstrate that Clinton had more contact with him than with Stevens — is a stretch. Whatever else one thinks of the former journalist — I've clashed with him over the years — he had nothing to do with what happened in Libya on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) acted as if he had found a video of Blumenthal attacking the compound himself. Pompeo, who had previously made the false allegation that Clinton got "most of her intelligence" on Libya from Blumenthal, asked whether Stevens had Clinton's personal e-mail, her cellphone number, fax or home address or visited her at home. "Mr. Blumenthal had each of those and did each of those things," Pompeo concluded. Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) thought he saw a smoking gun in an e-mail correspondence from August 2011 in which Blumenthal encouraged Clinton to "make a public statement before the cameras" when Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was deposed. "Two months before the end of the Gaddafi regime and you're already planning on how to make your statement dramatic to maximize political gain," Roskam scolded. Relevance to the Benghazi attack? None. Gowdy, for his part, found it damning that Clinton aides passed along some of Blumenthal's advice (which he got from a former intelligence official) to people including Stevens. "It's relevant because our ambassador was asked to read and respond to Sidney Blumenthal's drivel," the chairman said, "in some instances on the very same day he was asking for security." Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), a Democrat, observed that for all the time the panel has spent on Blumenthal, you'd think "that he was in Benghazi on the night, manning the barricades." During private testimony from Blumenthal, to which he was summoned by federal marshals, Republicans asked more than 160 questions about Blumenthal's associations with Bill and Hillary Clinton but fewer than 20 about the Benghazi attacks. Schiff and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat, proposed that Republicans, rather than selectively releasing Blumenthal's e-mails, come clean about their interest in him and make public the entire transcript of his testimony. Gowdy, after a shouting match with Cummings, refused. Read more from Dana Milbank's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook.

the name of sidney blumenthal was invoked more than 75 times , and scores of questions were asked about the longtime clinton friend had been invoked 49 times -- , exactly the number of mentions of j. christopher stevens , the ambassador to libya whose death in benghazi is the supposed subject of the congressional probe .

While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

While living in an apartment in Pentagon City , Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband , Patrick Stahlberg , a software engineer , began searching for a house where they could raise their family . With two children -- now 31/2 and 1 1/2 -- the Stahlbergs needed more space , including a study area for Stephanie , who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies . The house they found in Cherrydale , a neighborhood in North Arlington , met their expectations .

While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

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While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines , Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more .

While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

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While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

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While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

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While living in an apartment in Pentagon City, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg and her husband, Patrick Stahlberg, a software engineer, began searching for a house where they could raise their family. With two children — now 31/2 and 1 1/2 — the Stahlbergs needed more space, including a study area for Stephanie, who is enrolled in a PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. The house they found in Cherrydale, a neighborhood in North Arlington, met their expectations. Within two days on the market, however, there were 10 offers. "Our was not the highest," Stephanie said. "We wrote a letter to the owners about why we liked the house." The letter, along with a photograph of the family, worked. What drew the Stahlbergs to the house were the solar panels and the trees and bushes — raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, plums and currants — growing organically on the property. The Stahlbergs also envisioned finishing the basement bedroom and bathroom for an au pair. They also fell in love with the neighborhood. They would be within walking distance to a park and two libraries with story time for children. "We were trying to look at homes where we can walk to the Metro, or bike to the city or to the Metro," said Stephanie, 27. Sears and Montgomery Ward kit houses: Cherrydale, once abundant with cherry orchards, is a family neighborhood dating to 1893. While many neighbors have lived in the area for as long as 60 years, newcomers move in and out these days, said Kathryn Holt Springston, who worked for the Smithsonian American History Tours Office as an educational specialist and historian for 28 years. She also served as curator and director of the Arlington Historical Museum and editor of the Cherrydale Citizens' Association newsletter. Single-family homes, the Arlington public schools, access to bike trails and proximity to the District draw people to the neighborhood. Sometimes, though, they move in but stay only a few years. Finding a house in Cherrydale can involve the competitive process the Stahlbergs experienced. About half a mile north of the Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines, Cherrydale has a variety of residences ranging from farmhouses to bungalows to Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes with two to five or bedrooms or sometimes more. Many date from 1900 to 1930, though some of the older houses were purchased to be torn down and replaced with larger homes, including some built as recently as this year. Living there: Cherrydale lies north of Interstate 66 and south of Lorcom Lane, stretching roughly from Utah Street on the west to the northward-curving interstate on the east. The Maywood neighborhood claims the eastern half of those boundaries north of Lee Highway, lending something of an arrowhead shape to Cherrydale. Since 1908, the Cherrydale Citizens' Association has planned activities and resolved neighborhood concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, people often referred to the neighborhood as Mayberry, according to Springston, 63. In 1948, her parents bought the house where she lives with her husband and son. It dates to 1890, Springston said. In the neighborhood, 49 properties sold in the past year, according to Billy Buck, an associate broker at Buck & Associates. The lowest priced was a one-bedroom, one-bath condominium for $200,000; the highest priced was a five-bedroom, five-bath farmhouse at $1.63 million. Twelve properties are on the market now, ranging from a one-bedroom, two-bath condo for $274,900 to a new five-bedroom, five-bath Craftsman house at $1.799 million. Welcome wagon: The five-points intersection — Lee Highway, Old Dominion Drive, Quincy Street, Military Road and Quebec Street — is dotted with at least two car dealerships and other commercial establishments while nearby is a Safeway and the Cherrydale Hardware, which opened in 1938. The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire House, built in 1919, is home to such events as the annual spaghetti dinner, concerts and for 90 years each December there is a visit from Santa Claus for children under 12. Other community events are the annual Fourth of July party and picnic at 21st and Stafford streets. A neighborhood with its own "welcome wagon," Cherrydale has approximately 1,400 households and three parks as well as the Martha Custis Trail for biking, running and walking. Schools: Glebe Elementary, Taylor Elementary, Swanson Middle, Kenmore Middle and Washington-Lee High. Transit: The neighborhood is close to the Virginia Square or Ballston Metro stops on the Orange and Silver lines. Metro and Arlington Transit buses connect at Ballston and Virginia Square. Capital Bikeshare also is available. Crime: From July 2014 through June 2015, according to Arlington County police, one robbery and two burglaries were reported in the area. Harriet Edleson is a freelance writer.

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MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

MADRID ( AP ) -- Spain 's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country 's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $ 125 billion to save its banks , Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday . A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance , Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed . '' This year is going to be a bad one , '' Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister .

MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

Spain will for a bank bailout from the eurozone , the fourth and largest country to seek help since the debt crisis .

MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

MADRID ( AP ) -- Spain 's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country 's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $ 125 billion to save its banks , Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday .

MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

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MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

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MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

[UNK] i could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in spain over the past 20 years , having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor , '' said paul preston .

MADRID (AP) – Spain's grinding economic misery will get worse this year despite the country's request for a European financial lifeline of up to $125 billion to save its banks, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Sunday. A day after the country conceded it needed outside help following months of denying it would seek assistance, Rajoy said more Spaniards will lose their jobs in a country where one out of every four are already unemployed. "This year is going to be a bad one," Rajoy said Sunday in his first comments about the rescue since it was announced the previous evening by his economy minister. The conservative prime minister added that the economy, stuck in its second recession in three years, will still contract the previously predicted 1.7 percent even with the help. Small businesses and families starving for credit will eventually get relief as the funding props up banks and they increase lending, but Rajoy didn't offer guidance on when. Spain on Saturday became the fourth — and largest — of the 17 countries that use Europe's common currency to request a bailout — a big blow to a nation that a few years ago took pride as the continent's economic superstar only to see it become the hot spot in the eurozone debt crisis. Its economy is the eurozone's fourth largest after Germany, France and Italy. Across the country, Spaniards reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to the news. The amount of the rescue fund, if all is tapped, amounts to €21,000 of new debt for each person in the nation of 47 million where the average annual salary for those with work is about the same amount and the unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 52 percent. The country is already reeling from deep austerity cuts Rajoy has imposed over the last six months that have raised taxes, made it easier to hire and fire workers, and cut deep into cherished government programs including education and national health care. "It's obviously a shame," said civil servant Luisa Saraguren, 44, as she strolled on a sunny Sunday morning with her young daughter. "But this bailout was fully predictable, and the consequences of this help are going to be a lot bigger compared to the cuts we've been living with already." Rajoy took pains to avoid the word bailout Sunday, saying Spain's rescue package is a line of credit that its most troubled banks will be able to tap. The assistance will not come with the outside control over government macroeconomic policy like that imposed Greece, Ireland and Portugal when their public finances were bailed out. He said interest rates on the loans will be considerably lower than the rate near 7 percent that Spain has been forced to pay recently on the international debt markets, a level that forced the other countries to seek bailouts. Spain will regain the economic credibility it has lost by shoring up its banks, which will result in credit being restored so businesses and individuals shut off from loans can start borrowing and the economy will grow again, Rajoy insisted, again without saying when. Europe's widening recession and financial crisis has hurt companies and investors around the world. Providing a financial lifeline to Spanish banks is likely to relieve anxiety on the Spanish economy — which is five times larger than Greece's — and on markets concerned about the country's ability to pay its way. Spain's financial problems are not due to Greek-style government over-spending. The country's banks particularly its savings banks or "cajas," got caught up in the collapse of a real estate bubble in 2008 that got worse over the past four years. However, as Spain's leaders have struggled for a solution to their banking crisis, the country's borrowing costs have soared close to the level that forced the governments of Greece, Portugal and Ireland to seek rescues. Some of Spain's banks are struggling with by toxic real estate loans and assets amid fears the problem will get worse as more jobless people can't pay their mortgages. The Bank of Spain says the toxic loans and assets total around €180 billion. Nationalized lender Bankia SA, which has requested €19 billion in aid, has €32 billion in toxic assets. Around four other banks serving the domestic market are considered prime candidates for bailouts. "I could never get my mind round the scale of consumption in Spain over the past 20 years, having known it in the 1960s when it was still extremely poor," said Paul Preston, a history professor and expert on Spain with the London School of Economics. "Lots of people enjoyed the consumer boom, but not everybody. Now everybody's having to pay for it." Rajoy blamed Spain's woes on the previous Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero without mentioning him or his government by name. Zapatero was ousted by Rajoy in a landslide last November by voters outraged over the Socialist handling of the economy. "Last year Spain's public administration spent €90 billion more than it took in, this can't be maintained, we can't live like that," Rajoy said. But Socialist Party leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Rajoy should acknowledge that Spain is now in bailout territory. "The government is trying to make us believe that we've won the lottery, that the Three Kings of Orient have arrived, and that isn't so," Rubalcaba said. After his press conference, Rajoy defended his decision to jet off an hour later to Poland to see Spain's famed national football team take on Italy in the Euro 2012 competition. He said he would be on the ground in Gdansk only for the game before flying back to Madrid Sunday night. "I'll be there two and a half hours and then I'll leave," Rajoy said. "I think the national team deserves it."

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

CEDAR RAPIDS , Iowa -- Officially , Mitt Romney returned to Iowa , the quadrennial presidential proving ground , to give a boost to Joni Ernst . But at a closed - door breakfast fundraiser here Monday , the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst 's Senate campaign . '' When you get elected to the Senate , your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again , '' a donor told Ernst , according to several attendees .

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

when romney and ernst gathered in a west des moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives sunday night , one businessman after another pleaded with romney to give the white house another shot.romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months .

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Officially, Mitt Romney returned to Iowa, the quadrennial presidential proving ground, to give a boost to Joni Ernst. But at a closed-door breakfast fundraiser here Monday, the first question from a donor had nothing to do with Ernst's Senate campaign. "When you get elected to the Senate, your job should be to convince Mitt Romney to run for president again," a donor told Ernst, according to several attendees. The Republican candidate said she would, while Romney laughed. When Romney and Ernst gathered in a West Des Moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives Sunday night, one businessman after another pleaded with Romney to give the White House another shot. And at a rally for Ernst in Cedar Rapids on Monday, the state legislator who introduced Romney said, "If his address was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I would sleep a lot better." After Romney and Ernst finished speaking, some activists chanted, "Run, Mitt, run!" Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and now the tacit head of the Republican Party, visited Iowa as part of a feverish nationwide tour designed to help the GOP take control of the Senate. He has insisted that he is not interested in running for president a third time. But his friends said a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity is nudging him to more seriously consider it. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is hitting the stump for Republicans this fall -- which reminded us of some of his most memorable moments during the 2012 campaign. Here's a look at some of Romney's worst gaffes and a few predictions he got right. (Julie Percha/The Washington Post) Romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months. Because of the vacuum of power within his party and the lack of a clear 2016 front-runner, confidants said Romney is grappling with this question: If drafted, would he answer the party's call? Further juicing the speculation was a Des Moines Register-Bloomberg News poll released over the weekend showing that Romney is the only potential 2016 candidate who would beat Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) among likely Iowa voters, 44 percent to 43 percent. People in Romney's vast political orbit who are waiting and wishing on him to launch another campaign said Romney has done little to quiet them and has been hazy about his plans following next month's midterm elections. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty (R), who briefly ran against Romney in 2012 before becoming a close ally, said he wants to see Romney give it another go. "There is a feeling that the country missed out on an exceptional president," Pawlenty said. "If he runs, I believe he could win the nomination and the general election. It'd be the right person at the right time, and I would encourage him to do it." Pawlenty noted that Ronald Reagan ran unsuccessfully for president twice before being elected in his third attempt "and was stronger for it." In contrast with Romney, Pawlenty said, "the emerging class of Republican candidates is untested and unproven." Within Romney's political network, there has been informal chatter about a third run since early 2013, according to people familiar with the discussions. It bubbled up in phone calls and at dinners and has gained steam this year. Requests continue to pour in for him to appear on the campaign trail, and advisers said he is eager to mount a multi-state fly-around swing before Nov. 4. In Iowa, however, Romney seemed uncomfortable with the 2016 talk. At the West Des Moines rally, he spoke for only five minutes, criticizing President Obama on income inequality, foreign affairs and other issues. When reporters tried to question him afterward, he sneaked into a dark maze of cubicles. He also said that now that he was no longer a candidate, he had a joke to share involving Obama, golfer Phil Mickelson and tennis great Andre Agassi. As Romney told it, Obama shows up at a bank to cash a check without his ID. The teller asks him to prove who he is, saying that Mickelson proved his identity by hitting a golf ball into a cup and Agassi proved his by hitting a tennis ball at a target. "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" the teller asks. "I don't have a clue," Obama replies in the joke. The crowd ate it up. Former aides and senior Republicans say Romney appreciates the GOP masses crowing that he was right about issues such as Russia and health care. But what really intrigues him, they said, are the vulnerabilities among top-tier candidates in the Republican field. If Romney moves toward a race, it would be because he sees a path to victory. "It's the market pulling him," said Kent Lucken, a longtime friend and adviser who accompanied Romney to Iowa. "People look at Hillary as the likely Democratic nominee, and the party needs a strong leader who can stand up to her and who's been through the process." Romney is returning to Boston on Tuesday for a dinner that he and his wife, Ann, are hosting for former campaign advisers and business associates. The event — to benefit neurological research at Brigham and Women's Hospital — has Romney intimates abuzz. Save-the-date notices have gone out for the third annual Romney policy retreat in Park City, Utah, in June 2015 — a signal that he wants a platform to promote his issues as the presidential primary campaign season gets underway. Romney is also mingling privately with top donors who could fund a third campaign. Romney visited Sept. 23 with Joe Ricketts, a billionaire investor who finances the Ending Spending super PAC, at Ricketts's palatial penthouse apartment covering the entire 78th floor of the Time Warner Center in New York. On Oct. 6, Romney also took part in a GOP fundraising dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and former Romney campaign finance chairman. Several 2016 hopefuls gave presentations to the donors, while Romney served as a co-host and made no pitch. At Johnson's home, Romney and media magnate Rupert Murdoch spoke about Romney's political future. According to two Romney allies familiar with the conversation, Romney was cagey with Murdoch but expressed concerns about the developing GOP field. Romney told Murdoch that he felt uneasy about the party's non-interventionist drift on foreign policy and the base's embrace of ideological hard-liners. Many Romney boosters believe that his window of opportunity will be in mid- to late 2015, should Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) or Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ascend and party establishment types turn to Romney as a savior. If former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) opts out of a campaign, "there is going to be more pressure on Mitt to go," said Tom Rath, an influential New Hampshire Republican. At a luncheon this month in Atlanta to help GOP Senate nominee David Perdue, "people sat up and paid attention" to Romney, said Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). "I pulled him aside afterward to thank him for coming. He said he's not running, and I take him at his word. But I don't think the door is entirely closed, and circumstances can change." That phrase — "circumstances can change" — has been repeated by many Romney backers since the former nominee used it to describe his own thinking about 2016 in a radio interview last month with Hugh Hewitt. Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, talks regularly with Romney and said he has been receiving daily calls from donors and other supporters. "There are still plenty of donors who hope circumstances will change and there will be an opportunity for Romney to run again," he said. Zwick is part of a slimmed-down inner circle, including longtime advisers Beth Myers, Peter Flaherty, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen and aides Kelli Harrison and Matt Waldrip, who are advising Romney on political activities this fall. Romney traveled through Iowa with three trusted advisers and friends: David Kochel, Ron Kaufman and Lucken. He also reunited with supporters from campaigns past. In Cedar Rapids, Romney spotted Jim Wilson, a Virginia man who logged more than 40,000 miles chasing the GOP nominee from coast to coast in his campaign-festooned GMC pickup. The two hugged. "You son of a gun," Romney said. Another fan, Gary Chidester, 64, came to the West Des Moines rally with a full coterie of Romney paraphernalia for the former candidate to autograph: campaign placards, enlarged photographs and buttons of Mitt and wife Ann, and paperback and audio copies of Romney's book "No Apology." He also held a framed drawing that a friend gave him of a black cruise ship named Obama sinking into the sea and a white ship named Romney with the caption, "We're here to save you." "He's the only qualified person to run this time," Chidester said. "Mitt is a business genius. That's why I've listened to this tape three times. He had it all down — he had Russia down, he had the debt down — and all the other Republicans are novices by comparison."

when romney and ernst gathered in a west des moines boardroom with about 40 agriculture executives sunday night , one businessman after another pleaded with romney to give the white house another shot.romney has huddled with prominent donors and reconnected with supporters in key states in recent months .

We need a study to tell us things like this? My bad; I forgot that society no longer has common sense. 6 years ago my brother was found dead in his apartment. The only explanation the coroner gave my family was that his heart "just stopped", and it was most likely due to the fact that he had been drinking what you call "energy cocktails" with friends the night before (red bull and vodka). Drinking these things doesnt just affect your decision making skills, or cause anxiety disorders, IT CAN KILL YOU. PLEASE, everybody who reads this, remember uppers and downers DO NOT MIX Why? This trend has happened in the past too with other stimulants. Stimulants with depressants have a synergistic effect in some cases trippling the effect of one or the other which can have deadly consequences. The people using these combinations, one need to grow up and stop mixing drinks like little kids at a coolaid party and two wake up before they cannot wake up...they mix drinks for attention and some mystical edge that those flakes think they get from mixing energy drinks and alcohol....sad. Energy drinks are disgusting. Why would anyone mix them with alcohol? When i was in college we would routinly drink all night long taking caffine pills through out to stay up. Its a lot of fun, I had such good times in college, I miss it. We would also inhale aerosol room deoderizers. That just made you kinda pass out and fall down, so not as much fun. I found that if I drank all night with the caffine pills I could smoke a one hitter just before going to sleep and I wouldnt have a hangover when I woke up. I could start the process over when I woke up. I did this 5-6 nights a week on average. I graduated with a 3.4 gpa and now I have a great job making 93k per year. So there really isnt any harm in this behavior. Another misleading study. Forget that the people that drink energy drinks and alcohol together are just more riskier. Its the caffeine and alcohol combination that makes them morons. God forbid they are morons without the combination of the two. alcohol + energy drinks = a great time! Alcohol must be necessary to cut the awful taste of the energy drinks. One major flaw in this study. Are the people who partake in this risky behaviour, including mixing caffiene and alcohol, more prone to this type of behaviour to begin with? As a former "cherry bomb", vodka-red bull, and jager-bomb drinker, I can appreciate the feeling you get when you drink caffiene and liquor. I never did anything extra risky when clubing and drinking these beverages. I also am not prone to risky behaviour other than the rare binge drinking. Gee what do you know... more things that are bad for you!! What a bogus study. Too much of anything harmful to your body is going to do damage. I for one love the combo but only in moderation. Risky behavior... Give me a break! Driving your car or even going to a party or club is "risky" behavior. With all the sickos in the world today, no one is ever safe. Always be aware of your surroundings and always in moderation. This article reminded me that I had a 5 hr energy drink in my computer bag. Thanks! that just saved my afternoon. Also, I drank 2 – 5hr energies at a party last weekend and had a blast. Caffeine is what makes the world go round and alcohol makes the world a cooler place. So if my logic is correct the two combined are a match made in heaven. Drink on! Red bull and vodka is the modern, legal, "speedball," and we all know that caffeine + liquor simply equals a wide-awake drunk. So how is this riskier than just getting drunk and then trying to sober up by drinking black coffee? I agree with everyone who says that vodka plus Red Bull is just legal crack. We might as well give up on the War on Drugs right now. It's pointless to spend billions of dollars on fighting the cocaine cartels when you can just add vodka to Red Bull and get the same effect and the same damage to society from the perpetual overdoers. Nothing new – someone once thought it was 'fun' to mix barbituates with stimulants. The fact remains, risk increases, not decreases. It's always interesting to hear from those who justify questionable activity, whether or not it has been definitively determined to be risky. It usually begins with the phrase '...I like..', as if the ends, the effect, justifies the means, the unknown mixture, regardless of the actual risks, usually unknown. Well, some people like pit bulls, some like shooting AK's at wildlife, some like driving SUV's like sports cars, but, none of those are conducive to low risk, great decisions or desirable behavior. The operative word here is MAY. This is not a definitive study and, therefore, any conclusions are not empirical. Two of the worst hangovers I have ever had were the result of just 2 or 3 vodka-redbulls... No thanks, no more, that cured me. This indicates a link to Anxiety and Manic Depressive behavior. I used to drink energy drinks to help recover from the previous night. I then discovered that the energy drinks + alcohol were less expensive than plain energy drinks (go figure). These became my first drinks of the day...I am now in 12 step recovery. Who wants to live low risk their whole life? The entire USA is a country of risk/pain/consequence averse cowards. Im surprised the Amish dont take over the country. They probably would if it werent for the language barrier. "So there really isn't any harm in this behavior." – You're an ignorant piece of trash, please die. Ok, enough with people being all judgmental and comparing redbull and vodka to a freaking SPEEDBALL of heroin and cocaine. Um, not even close people. How many of you out there take your doctor-prescribed anti-anxiety pills with your morning coffee? Same thing. And to the person who said "pit bulls... [not] conducive to low risk, great decisions or desirable behavior" I have a pitbull. They are VERY loving and loyal dogs. Even a poodle who is raised wrong can cause great injury to a person. I think it's irresponsible to use owning a pitbull to try and make a point about reckless behavior. You are just spreading the hate. ANY dog raised in a sick environment can turn out dangerous. Sometimes I will have an energy beer, or do some various 'bomb' containing redbull and something 80-proof. Obviously when you're hyper and drunk, you might do stupid things. When you're drunk and tired, you might also do stupid things. I wish doctors and researchers would find a cure for cancer and AIDS and stop 'researching' all of these common sense things! Ridiculous. I like to start the night off with a energydrink and vodka mix. one or two to get me going and then I switch to beer. I have been doing this for years and have not noticed any problems with health or risk taking. Taste Great, but yeah uppers + downers is a bad idea To Poppy, I think I went to college with you and was perhaps involved in the debauchery...but don't make nearly what you make, and not everyone is as lucky as you, or dodges as many life bullets as you have. word. I am sorry to read the post about the brother who passed away, possibly related to the mixture of energy drinks and alcohol. That being said, there is an old saying...."everything in moderation" PS – Red Bull and grape flavored Three Olives vodka is maaawney!!! Patricia....Red Bull and vodka the same effect as cocaine? you probably have had neither because you clearly have no idea what you are talking about Lester, redbull and vodka didn't make you an alcoholic, I guess you've missed the step about taking responsibilitiy for your own actions. I'm a professional, a mom and a wife who every once in a while(about half a dozen times a year) is called on by friends to go out and celebrate a special occassion. Unless I'm at a party I don't ever drink (doesn't entice me) . Maybe as a product of my generation, I've been drinking this combo for almost a decade. This study has no control for the initial propensity for risk that the individuals natrually possess. It certainly doesn't make me more inclined to take any risks. What it does do for me is allow me to keep up with my non-parent friends who can stay up dancing until 5am. Otherwise, I'd pass out at 11pm (toddlers really make you tired, no need to make a study for that). I don't over-do it. Those who do would overdo it and take risks no matter what they were drinking. @johnna: that's absurd. If there is any truth to your post, then your brother most likely died because he had a congenital heart defect that may have been exacerbated by the caffeine and/or sugar in the energy drink. Glad to know that I only consumed a small qty of jagerbombs in my life – and never more than 1 in a single night. I no longer drink any sort of energy drink, they are just bad news all around. So.... Vodka and Red Bull is bad, but an Irish Coffee is okay? Huh. You need the alcohol mixers in order to drink the red bull – that stuff is just nasty – battery acid tasting. "An acquired taste." Sorry, no thanks. Moderation is key. Binge drinking is just plain stupid. When you have college students who think they will live forever, try to drink a keg themselves, or a liter of Jack Daniels at one sitting or ... your self-prescribed alcohol mix here ... then you will have problems. Yes, first time binge drinkers can die. Yes, some alcoholic drinkers can drink all they way all the time and nothing "serious" happens to them, yet others imitating them can die. George Burns drank and smoke cigars til he died. Thousands of others imitating his kind of lifestyle died much sooner. We may never know what kept him from having problems. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd have an XS Energy Drink and some good vodka. 14 flavors, little caffiene (6 oz coffee amt) but 5000% Vitamin B12. Yes, it could make a more awake drunk. But you could also drink the XS Energy without the booze and not have a sugar crash later. Because it doesn't have any sugar or carbs in it. Only 8 calories a can. And no acquired taste for battery acid required. www . jve . biz pwd: nutrition Most of these posts scare me to death for today's generation. I hope there aren't many out there like you. My preference is Tequila Bombs or Watermelon Crawls....a shot of tequila surrounded by the energy drink or 1/2 shot tequila and 1/2 shot watermelon pucker surrounded by energy drink. I usually drink about 12 of these on a "party" night. Feel real good all night and never feel sick the next day if I stop at 12. Anything after 12 can take a turn for the worse! This is news? 30 years ago, it was caffiene tablets from the back of High Times and power drinking. 20 years ago, it was speed and power drinking. 10 years ago, energy drinks came on the scene and power drinkers have made the transition official. Now we have a study that advises if you give caffiene or other herbal stimulants to a power-drinker, then you get a wide-awake drunk. I wonder once again how much tax money was spent to tell me what I already knew. Does a Wide-Awake drunk engage in more risky behavior? DUH.... Is there a likelihood of Alcohol poisoning and even death in these situations? again, DUH.... The more things change, the more they remain the same. What a ridiculous study. It's sad that people even consider this news. There is more caffeine in headache medicine than in a Red Bull. I agree that some of the larger energy drinks, like Monster and Rockstar have quite a bit of caffeine....but mixing it with alcohol isn't the problem. It's the alcohol! People have been mixing liquor with coca cola and coffee forever and this is no different. Caffeine and alcohol? Who would have *ever* thought of mixing those two? Anyone ever heard of "Rum & Coke" before? And to the people who are equating mixing alcohol and energy drinks to cocaine, wow, you could not be more wrong. It is not even close to the same thing. Not even a little bit. Hopefully they people get anxiety and depression and kill themselves before they cost all of money in the free health care they will require and get! Let's all be idiots and then make everyone else pay the price. BRILLIANT!!!! Kids that are 25 and younger in this country are absolutely useless anyway. Hopefully they wipe themselves out and we jump right to next generation. Afterall, it is the same people that have worshiped Britany Spears, Paris Hilton, The Hills, and energy drinks. I think we will be ok if they all end up in mental hospitals or dead. Risky behavior? I would think that's the least of your concerns when your mixing uppers and downers. I feel like we might see the effects of those nasty drinks in studies done years from now on my peers that party hard. Eating a healthy diet, exercise and proper breathing also gives you energy...all day long! Huh....I would think the mix would leave you with one heck of a hang over. The kind that feels like a spike in your brain. @ Poppy: diaf pls. k, thnx @ the rest of you: Chill out. You all are like watching people run around in circles pulling their hair out in a mad panic. omg omg this is hooooorible. We must lemming march and listen to these wise souls who tell us their correlational study is the gospel truth! Alcohol has been a source of risky behavior since the dawn of, well, liquor. I don't think adding a Red Bull or a Monster is going to make that any less true. I really get annoyed when people leave comments just to say, "This isn't news!" People need to be reminded once in a while if something isn't a good idea. A lot of people mix energy drinks with alcohol. As for myself, usually consume my energy drink an hour or so before beginning a night out to shake off a mood, a feeling of sloth. So maybe my timing is OK? I haven't noticed anything too unusual when I do this. It is wise to remember "everything in moderation", as someone above said. It is common sense, but how many of of really practice that? "Woolsey says the danger isn't specifically in the caffeine; it's in the combination of drinks with the other stimulants potentially being more dangerous because people haven't built up tolerances to them. Woolsey says many of these so called energy drinks contain unregulated herbal stimulants." Did all of you totally miss this part? You all keep going on about the caffeine. Read a story in its entirety, dont lock on one thing and run with it like a 5 year old. More junk "science" used to create sensational headlines. College kids do crazy stuff, they always have and always will. Unfortunately some of us will not live through it. There seems to be a lot of people in denial here. As somebody who has had a red bull/vodka combination – there is a lot of truth to this study. It truly makes you feel sober when you are digustingly NOT. Kudos to Ok State and Mizzou for trying to educate people –too bad that it's fallen on deaf ears.

We need a study to tell us things like this ? My bad ; I forgot that society no longer has common sense . 6 years ago my brother was found dead in his apartment .