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Saturday, October 6, 2012
HBT: The MVPs, Cys and ROYs should be ...
Here are my picks for the MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards for each league. Obviously, these are all for fun. I?m not a BBWAA member and do not have ballots?for any of these awards.
Feel free to flame away.
AL MVP
1. Mike Trout
2. Miguel Cabrera
3. Robinson Cano
4. Adrian Beltre
5. Justin Verlander
6. Austin Jackson
7. David Price
8. Josh Hamilton
9. Adam Jones
10. Alex Rios
I put down my thoughts on Trout vs. Cabrera earlier this week. Cabrera is going to win the MVP, and I?m OK with that. I think Trout was pretty clearly the better player, but he did play in 22 fewer games after opening the season in the minors.
As for the rest, Cano?s awesome finishing kick thrust him from somewhere in the 7-10 range up to No. 3. That spot appeared likely to come down to Beltre vs. Hamilton a couple of weeks ago, but Hamilton?s disappearing act nearly knocked him off the ballot entirely.
I went for Jones over Matt Wieters as the token Oriole. I really wanted to give the last spot to Edwin Encarnacion, but I couldn?t quite justify it. Joe Mauer and Ben Zobrist were also in the running, but Rios had a pretty terrific season.
AL Cy Young
1. Justin Verlander
2. David Price
3. Felix Hernandez
4. Fernando Rodney
5. Chris Sale
Price had the ERA lead, the wins and the tougher schedule. Strictly on an inning-by-inning basis, I?d give him the edge over Verlander here. Still, I think the difference is pretty small and doesn?t make up for the fact that Verlander made the equivalent of four more starts that Price did. Considering the infield defense behind him, the fact that Verlander finished second in the league in WHIP and batting average allowed is pretty amazing.
AL Rookie of the Year
1. Mike Trout
2. Yu Darvish
3. Yoenis Cespedes
4. Jarrod Parker
5. Tommy Milone
Not only does it have maybe the greatest rookie ever at the top, but the AL class is so very deep. Scott Diamond, Wei-Yin Chen, Will Middlebrooks, Matt Moore, Jose Quintana, Ryan Cook, A.J. Griffin, Manny Machado, Hisashi Iwakuma, Addison Reed, Sean Doolittle and Robbie Ross all made valuable contributions. Jesus Montero still projects very well too, though he was a disappointment this year.
NL MVP
1. Yadier Molina
2. Buster Posey
3. Ryan Braun
4. Andrew McCutchen
5. David Wright
6. Chase Headley
7. Aramis Ramirez
8. Aaron Hill
9. Joey Votto
10. Clayton Kershaw
I?ve flip-flopped a few times here.
Molina is the game?s best defensive catcher, and he started 22 more games behind the plate than Posey did this year. Yeah, he?s the worst hitter of the top six here, but it?s not by all that huge of a margin. He?s 87 points of OPS shy of Posey, 113 points shy of Braun.
One seemingly minor factor that swayed me in the end; Molina somehow hit into just 10 double plays this year. He came in at 21, 27, 19 and 21 the previous four years. It?s really a pretty amazing total given that he?s pretty slow, he hits plenty of grounders and he rarely strikes out. If Molina had made those 10-12 extra outs he usually does on twin-killings, I probably would have gone Posey first.
NL Cy Young
1. Clayton Kershaw
2. R.A. Dickey
3. Johnny Cueto
4. Kris Medlen
5. Matt Cain
I spent pretty much the entire year believing Dickey was the choice here. And he still would have been if Kershaw had succumbed to his hip injury. Kershaw came back and made a couple of more starts, though, and he proved to be the best pitcher. He led in ERA, strikeout ratio and WHIP while pitching just six fewer innings than Dickey. He also faced the tougher schedule. Consider that his opponents OPS was .760, even though quality left-handed hitters often sat out against him. Dickey?s was .750, the lowest mark of the top five pure starters (including Gio Gonzalez, not including Medlen).
As for Medlen, his schedule was the weakest of the bunch. But he was amazing, amassing a 1.57 ERA in 138 innings. I think that?s quite a bit more valuable than what Craig Kimbrel and Aroldis Chapman did. I also think it trumps Gio Gonzalez?s performance. Gonzalez gave up 43 additional runs (40 earned) while pitching 61 1/3 innings more innings than Medlen. That?s a 5.87 ERA. In comparison, Medlen allowed 19 more runs (17 earned) in 75 1/3 innings more than Kimbrel pitched. That?s a 2.03 ERA.
NL Rookie of the Year
1. Bryce Harper
2. Wade Miley
3. Norichika Aoki
4. Todd Frazier
5. Wilin Rosario
Miley seemed to have this one in the bag for most of the year, but he went 2-2 with a 5.40 ERA in his final six starts. Harper, meanwhile, hit .330 with seven homers and 27 runs scored in 112 at-bats between September and October. It?s still terribly close, and I?ve gone back and forth on my choice a few times. It?s too bad they can?t tie.
As for Rosario, he was just too sloppy defensively to justify a higher spot. He did lead all major league catchers and rookies in homers, but I think Aoki and Frazier were more valuable this year.
Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/05/my-mvp-cy-young-and-rookie-of-the-year-picks/related/
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Friday, October 5, 2012
friendship as ethnographic virtue | Savage Minds
friendship? I know. it does seem too obvious and perhaps disingenuous for an anthropologist to pose friendship as one of the internal, constitutive goods of ethnographic practice. but that?s the virtue i want to invoke here.
back in chicago, home of the haskell hall totem pole, there was?i wonder if anyone could tell me if it?s still there?a world map around which our administrator affixed fieldwork photographs of students and faculty of the department. back in those snail mail days before social media, this was about all the contact we could get with colleagues in the field. the map looked down from the stairwell up to the mezzanine, but was not without contention: was it part of a strategy of representation that reproduced anthropology?s complicity with colonial discourses? an attempt to employ images of rapport to shore up ethnographic authority? what the critics seemed not to get was that the map actually was a token of our friendships with our colleagues, focused on our common practices of fieldwork and writing.
but, right, critics of the map would likely consider friendship naive. there?s a history i could sketch here, but i?ll just go for the beginning and end points. if malinowski claimed in argonauts that through shared residence and daily activity the ethnographer could at least become ?a necessary evil or nuisance, mitigated by donations of tobacco,? the discipline has long since shed the illusions we have of reaching even such a limited state of rapport: take marcus?s typically programmatic 1997 statement that even an assumption of the desirability of rapport had been displaced, with no replacement in sight. that marcus ushered ?complicity? onto the runway as the new rapport might relegate friendship to some dusty haberdashery. i even hesitate to call it last season.
curiously, however, i had written about complicity unaware of the marcus article and came to see complicity in a positive light, as a means for sustaining a shared project in conditions of political opposition and entrenchment. because i?ve a book on that subject, i?ll just go back to bronislaw (whew!).
malinowski?s account situated his relationships with people in the field somewhere in between utilitarian relationships (exchanges of information and tobacco) and those based upon the avoidance of boredom (i?m not sure whether aristotle had a category for these friendships, now the function of smartphones). friendships described in other ethnographic work turn out to be more complicated. for example, in appetites judith farquhar describes her friendship with an academic advisor in the early years of reform and openness in post-mao china. farquhar admits that their shared appreciation for pragmatic philosophers, common interests in philology, and long afternoons spent in study felt like love. farquhar employs her experience of friendships to examine transformations in chinese society. her discussion also underlines that friendship as an ethnographic value is not just the interpersonal relationship but its grounding in a shared practice: in farquhar?s case, a common friendship of language. but the friendship might as well be of sea urchins, songwriting, or second life.
in a little book that should get more attention from ethnographers, friends of interpretable objects, miguel tamen argues that interpretation consists of a set of peculiar uses of the verb ?to say:? friends (and would be friends) of otherwise mute or unintelligible objects adopt a stance from which they have a warrant to decipher what the befriended would say were they to speak, a representation of what the befriended would say if the befriended could get our attention in our own language. these friends defer to the befriended in the sense that friends occupy a position in which they cannot be indifferent to the destruction or diminishment of the befriended. indeed, the friend perceives that such a loss would diminish herself. Whether befriended objects are sonic traces of history, elements of a contemporary soundscape, Enter the Wutang, songbirds, betelnut stands, or coral reefs, interpretation indicates an organization of a group of ?friends? who advocate for, represent, or otherwise speak on behalf of these objects. It also means that the friends of such objects attribute to them intentions, rights, and liabilities which the friends are uniquely qualified to discern and elaborate. interpretive practices, says tamen, make all kinds of unexpected things speak but also bind the friends of those things into associations.
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along the pacific coast of taiwan where i do my ethnographic work, ?amis men befriend but rarely speak on behalf of fish (they do frequently spear a few of them, however). when they do speak for fish, it is usually in response to the inquiries of a youth or the clumsy ethnographer who has just begun to befriend the ocean. sea urchins, they say, hold assemblies at night; some species of fish tease divers by making eyes or being adorably annoying (in taiwanese mandarin, sajiao). what?s more, the men view their friendships with marine creatures as necessary to a good life. although fish are food and the ocean a larder, the men feel an intimacy with the ocean that exceeds utility and that drives them to find sites to dive or gather wherever work might take them. recently an ?amis friend visited boston. on the ride back from the airport he asked, ?so boston is near the ocean. let?s micekiw (gather shellfish) tomorrow!? this desire, it seems to me, indicates that tamen might overstate speaking for the befriended; but there is a relationship between verbal and nonverbal ways of deferring to befriended objects. labor migrants in taipei during the 1970s have lived at construction sites, and days off with good weather found them seeking sites to renew their friendship with the ocean. in recent years, as taiwan?s pacific coast has been threatened with tourist development, many of these men have found themselves caught between a desire to speak for the ocean and their reluctance to join environmentalist movements.
shared friendships define how we produce ethnographic knowledge. to the extent that i have begun to understand labor migration or land rights disputes in the ?amis town where i work, it has often been through registering the differences between my own friendship with the ocean and that of the ?amis women and men with whom i live. this sort of registration occurs often in fieldwork and can sometimes be jarring. once while working on an earlier project in quanzhou, china, a friend with whom i shared a love for nightmarkets and religious processions?really all things naojiat (renao, noisy hot or bustling)?invited me to a friend?s rooftop to watch the execution, scheduled that afternoon in a nearby stadium, of at least a dozen death row criminals. the stadium would be closed, of course, but we could view the execution from the roof. it promises to be naojiat, he said. recoiling with disgust at the prospect, i wondered how i could have such a friend. lacking this moment, however, i might have missed the ambivalence of naojiat. the different stances we take in relationship to befriended objects need not provoke disgust or horror to be effective. the point is that we register them.
of course, many ethnographic works have focused on subjects that the ethnographer dislikes. christine yano, who has written a book on enka, readily admits that she is not a fan. i?m not at all a friend of mandopop or k-pop, but i need to listen to it. in these cases, are there other friendships that sustain ethnographic work? if friendship is an internal good of ethnographic work, we would expect to find it here, too.
Source: http://savageminds.org/2012/10/04/friendship-as-ethnographic-virtue/
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Meg Whitman Outlines HP?s 5-Year Recovery Plan, Promises Growth By 2015
Hewlett-Packard was once the king of Silicon Valley. Not anymore. After years of executive turnover, the company has lost its soul although the money keeps pouring in. Meg Whitman intends to right the massive HP ship and just outlined an ambitious five-year plan that promises new products by financial year 2014 and finally growth by 2015. So three years from now. Gah. Whitman took over for ousted Leo Apotheker in September 2011. Apotheker replaced Mark Hurd in 2010. Today during HP's Securities Analyst Meeting Whitman blamed HP's current position on this constant turnover. She indicated it caused multiple inconsistent strategies. And she's right.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1xS0ftGcbe0/
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Border Patrol agent shot, killed on duty in Ariz.
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, law enforcement officers gather at a command post in the desert near Naco, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, after a Border Patrol agent was shot to death near the U.S.-Mexico line. The agent, Nicholas Ivie, 30, and a colleague were on patrol about 100 miles from Tucson, when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gabriel Guerrero)
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, law enforcement officers gather at a command post in the desert near Naco, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, after a Border Patrol agent was shot to death near the U.S.-Mexico line. The agent, Nicholas Ivie, 30, and a colleague were on patrol about 100 miles from Tucson, when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gabriel Guerrero)
Hours after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed, and one other was shot and injured, James Turgal, FBI Special Agent in Charge Phoenix, arrives to speak at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Bisbee, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, law enforcement officers gather at a command post in the desert near Naco, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, after a Border Patrol agent was shot to death near the U.S.-Mexico line. The agent, Nicholas Ivie, 30, and a colleague were on patrol about 100 miles from Tucson, when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gabriel Guerrero)
Hours after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed, and one other was shot and injured, Manuel Padilla, left, U.S. Border Patrol Acting Chief Patrol Agent Tucson Sector, and Jeffrey Self, U.S. Border Protection Joint Field Command Arizona, leave after a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Bisbee, Ariz.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Hours after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed, and one other was shot and injured, Jeffrey Self, left, U.S. Border Protection Joint Field Command Arizona, issues a statement and James Turgal, FBI Special Agent in Charge Phoenix, listens during a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Bisbee, Ariz.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
NACO, Ariz. (AP) ? A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 firefight with Mexican bandits that spawned congressional probes of a botched government gun-smuggling investigation.
The agent, 30-year-old Nicholas Ivie, and a colleague were on patrol in the desert near Naco, about 100 miles from Tucson, when gunfire broke out shortly before 2 a.m., the Border Patrol said. The second agent was shot in the ankle and buttocks, but was reportedly in stable condition.
Authorities have not identified the agent who was wounded, nor did they say whether any weapons were seized at the site of the shooting.
At a news conference in Naco, an FBI official said the agency still was processing the crime scene and that it might take several days to complete. The FBI and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, which is also investigating, declined to say whether investigators have recovered guns or bullet casings.
No arrests have been made, but authorities suspect that more than one person fired at the agents.
"It's been a long day for us but it's been longer for no one more than a wife whose husband is not coming home. It's been longer for two children whose father is not coming home, and that is what is going to strengthen our resolve" to find those responsible and enforce the law, said Jeffrey Self, commander of Customs and Border Protection's Arizona joint field command.
Ivie, who is married, lived in Sierra Vista with his wife and their two young daughters.
The last Border Patrol agent fatally shot on duty was Brian Terry, who died in a shootout with bandits near the border in December 2010. The Border Patrol station in Naco, where the two agents shot Tuesday were stationed, was recently named after Terry.
Terry's shooting was later linked to the government's "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling operation, which allowed people suspected of illegally buying guns for others to walk away from gun shops with weapons, rather than be arrested.
Authorities intended to track the guns into Mexico. Two rifles found at the scene of Terry's shooting were bought by a member of the gun-smuggling ring being investigated.
Critics of the operation say any shooting along the border now will raise the specter those illegal weapons are still being used in border violence.
"There's no way to know at this point how the agent was killed, but because of Operation Fast and Furious, we'll wonder for years if the guns used in any killing along the border were part of an ill-advised gun-walking strategy," Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said in a statement.
The Terry family said that the shooting was a "graphic reminder of the inherent dangers that threaten the safety of those who live and work near the border."
Authorities set up a checkpoint on a dirt road about seven miles southeast of Bisbee. A Border Patrol truck and another vehicle carrying two portable toilets were allowed to drive past the roadblock.
Agents at the checkpoint declined to comment and barred reporters from going further. Two helicopters from federal immigration agencies could be seen from a distance circling the area. And a fugitive-chase team could be seen staging on a roadside.
The area near the shooting is scattered with houses, trailers and ranchettes. Mesquite trees and creosote bushes dot the landscape, with a mountain range nearby to the west.
The U.S. government has put thousands of sensors along the border that, when tripped, alert dispatchers that they should send agents to a particular location.
The agents were fired upon in a rugged hilly area about five miles north of the border as they responded to an alarm that was triggered on one of the sensors, said sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas. It is not known whether the agents returned fire, she said.
The agents who were shot were on patrol with a third agent, who was not harmed, said George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing about 17,000 border patrol agents.
The Border Patrol said Ivie worked for the agency since January 2008 and grew up in Provo, Utah. He worked as an emergency medical technician before joining the Border Patrol, said his brother-in-law, Todd Davis. He served a two-year mission with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico City after high school.
Ivie's desire to help others, and his love of the outdoors and riding horses led him to the Border Patrol, where he served on the horse patrol unit, Davis said.
"Nick always tried to help others. He was a very selfless man with his family, with his friends, in anything he did," Davis said. "You know the risk but you pray this day would never happen."
Twenty-six Border Patrol agents have died in the line of duty since 2002. Bisbee-area residents expressed a mix of concern and frustration about the shooting, along with recognition that the border can be a dangerous place.
The region has seen its share of violence in recent years, including the Terry shooting and the slaying of a well-known rancher in 2010. That killing was, in part, credited with pushing Arizona lawmakers to pass a law that requires officers, when they stop someone, to check the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally.
"There is no security on the border ? none," said Edward L. Thomas, who owns rental properties in Bisbee.
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Billeaud reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff, Ariz., contributed to this report.
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Romney barrels out of first debate on offense
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney wave at the start of the presidential debate at the University of Denver Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, John Leyba) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney wave at the start of the presidential debate at the University of Denver Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, John Leyba) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, left, listens as President Barack Obama speaks during their first presidential debate at the University of Denver Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 in Denver. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, John Leyba) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT
Kinard Lang, right, reacts while watching the first Presidential debate between Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and President Barack Obama on Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012, at a restaurant in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
DENVER (AP) ? Little more than a month from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney is barreling out of the first presidential debate energized by a solid performance that telegraphed his determination to take it to President Barack Obama with gusto. The president, intent on keeping his momentum from stalling, is warning Americans that his GOP rival's policy prescriptions for a fragile economy are more fantasy than reality.
Standing toe-to-toe with the president for the first time in the campaign, Romney held his own and more at a time when there already were signs that the race is tightening in some of the battleground states where Obama has enjoyed an advantage. Obama kept his cool and signaled that he won't let up on his message that Romney's plans on taxes, health care, the deficit and more just don't add up.
"It's fun," Romney declared well into Wednesday night's 90-minute faceoff, clearly relishing the back-and-forth.
"It's arithmetic," said Obama, hammering at Romney's conspicuous lack of details with far less enthusiasm.
After a few days of relative calm as the candidates prepared for the first of their three debates, the campaign now bursts out of Colorado in all directions, with an itinerary that touches down in some of the most hotly contested battleground states over the next few days: Obama campaigns in Colorado and Wisconsin, then on to Virginia and Ohio. Romney and running mate Paul Ryan are off to Virginia on Thursday, then Romney spends more time in Virginia before moving on to Florida. Vice President Joe Biden is bound for Iowa.
With a 13-day break before their next debate, Obama and Romney have time to hone their arguments while their campaigns continuing to bombard the most hotly contested states with negative ads that go far beyond the more restrained jibes the candidates leveled from their respective podiums. Obama made no mention, for example, of Romney's caught-on-tape remark that he's not worried about the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay taxes. Democratic ads, though, have been making hay with the comment.
In next few weeks, Romney is expected to give a number of policy speeches filling in details as he tries to sharpen the contrast with Obama while answering criticism that he hasn't clearly outlined his plans. The Republican challenger begins with a foreign policy speech in Virginia on Monday. Subsequent speeches are expected to focus on his plans for job creation, debt and spending.
Romney has promised to balance the budget in eight years to 10 years, but hasn't explained just how he'll do it. Instead, he's promised a set of principles, some of which ? like increasing Pentagon spending and restoring more than $700 billion in cuts to Medicare over the coming decade ? work against that goal. He also has said he will not consider tax increases.
Obama argued that it's all too much.
"At some point, I think the American people have to ask themselves, is the reason that Governor Romney is keeping all these plans to replace secret because they're too good?" he said. "Is it because that somehow middle-class families are going to benefit too much from them? No."
The president went on to say the nation faces tough problems that defy simple solutions and said his own choices were "benefiting middle-class families all across the country."
Romney maintained it was Obama who was crushing the middle class and getting the numbers wrong, telling him, "Mr. President, you're entitled to your own airplane and your own house, but not your own facts."
The two candidates planted themselves behind wooden lecterns and faced off before about a crowd of fewer than 1,000 people at the University of Denver. But their policy-heavy debate really was aimed at the tens of millions of television viewers who tuned in, particularly those who are undecided or soft in their support for a candidate. Just the sort of voters who may be less partisan and more interested in hearing specifics.
Karl Amelchenko, an Obama supporter who watched the debate at a storefront art gallery in Raleigh, N.C., thought Romney did himself some good.
"I think he won, unfortunately," Amelchenko said. "I think he might change some minds."
But some voters still aren't ready to commit one way or the other.
Cynthia Gerst, a state worker in Ohio who attended a nonpartisan debate watch party in downtown Columbus, confessed she's "been under a rock, but now I'm ready" to pay attention. She leans Democratic, but hasn't made up her mind.
"I couldn't distinguish who was in the right," she said after the debate.
Both candidates came into the debate with distinct missions, and largely achieved them: Romney needed to project leadership and dispel the image of an out-of-touch elitist. Obama needed to avoid making any major mistakes and press the case that he still has more to offer.
The GOP nominee began his charm offensive from the outset, offering 20th wedding anniversary wishes to the Obamas and joking that the debate hall was quite the romantic setting. And then he quickly segued to the campaign's central issue ? jobs ? and called it "a very tender topic."
Obama sketched out his familiar agenda of improving schools, expanding energy sources, increasing tax fairness and paying down the debt, then made a simple but all-encompassing promise: "All of this is possible."
Each candidate wielded studies and experts to buttress his arguments, and each hauled out anecdotes about ordinary Americans to connect with voters. Romney spoke of the woman in Ohio who grabbed his arm and told him she's been out of work since May. Obama recalled the teacher he met in Las Vegas who had students sitting on the floor and using 10-year-old textbooks.
Biden and Ryan were probably two of the most attentive viewers: Their own debate is up next, on Oct. 11 at Centre College in Danville, Ky. Their rival rehearsals, with stand-ins for their opponents, already are well under way.
Obama and Romney go back at it on Oct. 16, in a town hall-style format at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Their final faceoff, on foreign affairs, is Oct. 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
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Benac reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Allen Breed in Raleigh, N.C., Julie Pace in Denver, Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Columbus, Ohio, and Steve Peoples in Washington contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
FTC gets $163M judgment in scareware case
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