While Republicans were still battling for the nomination in the spring, the number of Obama field offices in key primary season states likely to play significant roles in the fall -- states like Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida -- already outnumbered those of all his potential GOP challengers combined, even though the president wasn't facing any primary season challengers.

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The Spanish giants conducted a long - and public - pursuit of the winger throughout last summer, only to see a potential deal fall through.

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Without accurate, real-time translation, the Internet will fall short of its potential to be the first universal communications medium.

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Arab fanaticism now plays the same role for conservatives that Communism played until the fall of the Berlin Wall: it justifies both a vigorous foreign policy abroad and an ever-vigilant approach to potential subversives at home.

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Smith's free fall from potential top-10 pick, and his reported decision and later, change of heart to leave New York rather than return to the draft site at Radio City Music Hall added to the perception.

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