"If there appears to be a tie, then faithless electors becomeabigproblem, and we could have a real mess on our hands, " said Robert W. Bennett, a constitutional law professor at Northwestern University who has written extensively about the Electoral College.
Some bacteria had already become resistant to penicillin by the mid-1940s, but it wasn't abigproblem because so many new antibiotics were emerging from the lab.
Bank of America will defend itself saying disclosures over mortgage bonds issued by Countrywide were sufficient for big investors like AIG, but the problem is Bank of America has becomea prime target for large institutions seeking to limit the damage of the credit crisis.