Americans' Crystal Ball Proves Cloudy
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The American public has a pretty cloudy crystal ball. Polls were never intended to predict the future &#151; and that's probably a good thing, given their limited success at forecasting. While the American public's reading of the economy is usually quite accurate and can hint at future spending trends, the public struggles when trying to predict the future.
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The dynamics of the Ryder Cup in the 21st century have changed. The presumption by most Americans that the United States has the better team, and therefore should win the Ryder Cup, has long since evaporated.
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Americans are optimistic about the next four years, but they have reservations about President Bush's agenda.
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Itâs a curious phenomenon. Americans seem to feel more economically insecure even though the economy has become more stable.
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When the words Great Britain were displayed on the stadium scoreboard as the winning team in 38.07 - just.01 of a second ahead of the United States â-here was a momentary silence, a split
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The films leading the race tended to be long on grandeur and bleak in outlook. Is it a reflection of America's mood?
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The Americans have the big names. The Europeans have the luck of the Irish.
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ATHENS - The US men have a basketball medal, but there is little consolation in the prize. Third place fell a couple of steps short of expectations, but the Americans had nowhere else to go Saturday in what
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I like politics. I follow it the way some people follow sports. The Democrat Party     and Republican Party are major league teams. They battle each other in national, state and     local contests. They have mascots, both created by the same person.     They have fanatical supporters just like any sport. Like minor league teams, there are also minor political parties to watch that sometimes play spoiler and sometimes     gain enough strength to influence the major parties. Some operate only locally, some statewide, and some try to operate     nationally.    I also enjoy following individual personalities. People love and hate them like they love and hate sports teams and athletes.     I'm sometimes startled by the degree of blind adoration or blind rage that politicians can inspire in otherwise calm,     rational people.    Lately, I've noticed that there's a growing tendency to divide the United States into red states and blue states. People seem     to think that it's possible for an entire state to be Democrat or Republican. How can that be if it's difficult to even     categorize individual Americans into definite camps? Now, although once restricted to politics, the idea is spreading to     other arenas. I saw a suggestion that Hollywood start targetting states as red or blue audiences. I've seen statistics that     compare red states versus blue states on categories such as religion, income, and even gifts to charity.    The division of the United States into red and blue states is overly simplistic and misleading.
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John Edwards is right. There are two Americas, and they don&#39;t intersect. They don&#39;t even appear to understand each other. When I woke up on Nov. 3 and switched on the radio, that realization hit me like a ton of bricks.
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The rules seem to be the problem. The South Koreans are upset that the rules are too strict. The Americans are upset that the rules are being broken.
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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Twenty men will represent the United States in this yearâs main draw of the U.S. Open â the third fewest since at least 1972. Of those, only two American players â Andy Roddick and James Blake â are seeded, which ties a low for the Open era. For those looking for evidence that the American menâs [...].
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Once upon a time, America ruled. No, no. I mean ruled . When I was growing up, we were international sports tyrants. We took it all for granted.
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FOR years, American sport has glanced smugly towards the Old World and pontificated about the European disease of crowd violence at sporting events.
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Business & money: Markets on both sides of the Atlantic take  fright  at data showing weakness in the US and Germany.
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American fans may not care for cheating players, but those players havenât stained the game sufficiently to keep fans away.