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. >> they've got a lot of good pros t pecks. >> all of and sudden, a seven-ge win streak goingam into today's game, and this is one of the many afternoon games we've got for you. ian stewart off gallardo who has been pitching great. >> ian stewart has been on fire hitting .333. just absolutely raking it. the rockies have been waiting for years for stewart's talent to manifest itself. >> ryan brawn, waiting for the fastball, gets by him. though brawn though he homers ir the ninth. rocky gets the win. 5-4. w so they get another w. and it's still a long ways to go. they started out so poorly. >> longest winning streak for the rockies since september 2007. that was the month that propelled them into the postseason that year. >> aaron cook, you believe is a guy who could really help makeea or break a season? why? >> he's helping them now. i talked to him. he's hopeful about what he could accomplish this year. got off to a terrible start. his era was 8 and a half. but after his start for the i don't think rockies on april 24, he went back and looked at videotape, and he realized his arm ang
. >> they've got a lot of good pros t pecks. >> all of and sudden, a seven-ge win streak goingam into today's game, and this is one of the many afternoon games we've got for you. ian stewart off gallardo who has been pitching great. >> ian stewart has been on fire hitting .333. just absolutely raking it. the rockies have been waiting for years for stewart's talent to manifest itself. >> ryan brawn, waiting for the fastball, gets by him. though brawn though he homers ir...
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you kind of pecked up want paper one morning and went, whoa, look at that, manny -- you can still vote for manny in the all-star game? the guy is on a 50-game suspension, and over a million people are voting for him. he's lucky that manny's not going to be one of the top three, because if that did happen, he would do -- you get the same look we got when they ran out of players at the last all-star game. >> by the way, if manny thinks this is all about him, by the way, he says in the response to him coming back, "they love me wherever i go in america." when we return -- our "parting shots" will take a look at one of the biggest upsets in sports, not quite the miracle on ice, but something [captioning made possible by espn, inc.] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> time for our "parting shots." bob leads off. >> a quarter century ago, the portland trail blazers made the granddaddy of all draft mistakes, picking second in the 1984 draft, they made the selection of star-crossed kentucky center sam bowie, whose legs remain a fossil. thus the chicago bulls lu
you kind of pecked up want paper one morning and went, whoa, look at that, manny -- you can still vote for manny in the all-star game? the guy is on a 50-game suspension, and over a million people are voting for him. he's lucky that manny's not going to be one of the top three, because if that did happen, he would do -- you get the same look we got when they ran out of players at the last all-star game. >> by the way, if manny thinks this is all about him, by the way, he says in the...
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firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year," and now i don't mean to just peck on goldman sachs. there are a number of other financial outfits that may be engaged in excessive oil speculation, as well, but gold map sacks is the leading trader of oil and gas derivatives. so here we are, goldman sachs, among others, now paying out huge bonuses after having been bailed out by the taxpayers of this country and they're back at their same old tricks engaging in excessive speculation which is what my amendment begins to address. address. so madam president, i am amazed our republican friends would refuse to allow an amendment to come to the floor of the senate that was passed overwhelmingly in the house with very, very strong republican support in that body. and with that, madam president, i would yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: madam president, as i have indicated previously, the underlying bill on which we're going to have a cloture vote is bipartisan with over 50 cosponsors here in the united states senate? the last
firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year," and now i don't mean to just peck on goldman sachs. there are a number of other financial outfits that may be engaged in excessive oil speculation, as well, but gold map sacks is the leading trader of oil and gas derivatives. so here we are, goldman sachs, among others, now paying out huge bonuses after having been bailed out by the taxpayers of this country and they're back at their same old tricks engaging in excessive...
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he seemed to keep pecking at the orioles. >> he's really coming on. he's second on the ball club in home runs. he's developing a power swing. he's very good at looking in fastball situationings. you see that pitch on the outside corner. he gets on it and pulls it down to the left field corner. uggla comes around and scores on the play. we saw this last night. just in time. still, it's an rbi for them. later on though, again, fastball middle in. he drives it over the shortstop head. sangle and another rbi. so, cody ross, i mean, he just looks like he knows what's coming. tonight, here again too, gets that pitch middle in again and bombs it into the seats in left center field. would you think by now that we would know not to pitch this guy middle in. he's looking to power the gawl ball and he's got to try some off-speed stuff to get him out. >> ross, 6-13 in the series. when you look back at it, he was a thorn in the orioles side but also hanley ramirez, dan uggla and jorge cantu. it's take your pick. pick your.sob. -- poison. >> we seem to be able it l
he seemed to keep pecking at the orioles. >> he's really coming on. he's second on the ball club in home runs. he's developing a power swing. he's very good at looking in fastball situationings. you see that pitch on the outside corner. he gets on it and pulls it down to the left field corner. uggla comes around and scores on the play. we saw this last night. just in time. still, it's an rbi for them. later on though, again, fastball middle in. he drives it over the shortstop head. sangle...
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another to thank the creation of the federal functional regulator would give the federal agency and the pecks per tees to regulate the insurance industry and cooperate and give information to the systemic regulator. >> but absent that? >> absent that, that is a concern and i think it's incomplete. >> congressman, mr. chairman, if i might add briefly there is a concern for the regulators. the regulation of the insurance industry is the bank industry. so the regulators have expert e expertise, but should want be displaced. one of the priorities of any systemic regulator is to recognize and value the expertise and functional regulator, facilitate communication among those regulators and prevent the systemic disruption that we've experienced. >> thank you, panel. appreciate it. >> thank you very much, mr. garrett. thank you, mr. chairman. it is interesting that i heard pretty much everyone say that the insurance industry doesn't threaten the system. i'm just curious, are you familiar with the acronym tria? tria was the one that that the insurance company had a pass and everyone was afraid they wo
another to thank the creation of the federal functional regulator would give the federal agency and the pecks per tees to regulate the insurance industry and cooperate and give information to the systemic regulator. >> but absent that? >> absent that, that is a concern and i think it's incomplete. >> congressman, mr. chairman, if i might add briefly there is a concern for the regulators. the regulation of the insurance industry is the bank industry. so the regulators have...
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desperately in need of transcribing and it doesn't matter if you can would want to say, if you can hunt and peck you can still participate. bayh chose to focus in the gl pt community because of one to make sure they had a voice and were recognized having served the country and served well and they are human beings and they get laid down their lives to make sure that we live, have our normal why if we like to live in this country. so yes i just wanted to mention that as well. >> thanks everyone for coming this evening and we will all be around for further discussion and purchasing. [applause] >> aaron glantz covered the web iraq war as an independent journalist and is the author of how america loss iraq into the co-author of winter soldier, iraq and afghanistan. he's currently a rosalynn carter fellow for mental health journalism at the carter center. for more on author aaron glantz and his latest book, "the war comes home," visit aaronglantz.com. >>> financial times reporter gillian tett's new book, "fool's gold" gives the insider how the team at jpmorgan and feist the new financial instruments
desperately in need of transcribing and it doesn't matter if you can would want to say, if you can hunt and peck you can still participate. bayh chose to focus in the gl pt community because of one to make sure they had a voice and were recognized having served the country and served well and they are human beings and they get laid down their lives to make sure that we live, have our normal why if we like to live in this country. so yes i just wanted to mention that as well. >> thanks...
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the opinion that has the chief justice's name on it was actually a collective product by the cross peck ter of them saying we won't drive ourselves into this pitch. it doesn't actually reliken an opinion by john roberts. for one thing -- i'm glad he's not here. i can say these things. for one thing, it cites law review articles, but i think i'm right and if somebody in the audience or somebody on c-span can give me evidence to the contrary, i could have asked him, but i don't believe he has ever cited any law review articles since he has been on the court except law review articles by the judge with whom he clerked. you asked about extra legal materials, and that's pretty common to cite law review articles. maybe since i'm teaching now at a law school, i'm sensitive about this, but this does cite law review articles to tell us what the current status is of voting rights act enforcement and so it's not just -- you know, there was something else going on this, and also the clarence thomas dissenting opinion, which says, you know, things have changed, and the voting rights act has outgrown
the opinion that has the chief justice's name on it was actually a collective product by the cross peck ter of them saying we won't drive ourselves into this pitch. it doesn't actually reliken an opinion by john roberts. for one thing -- i'm glad he's not here. i can say these things. for one thing, it cites law review articles, but i think i'm right and if somebody in the audience or somebody on c-span can give me evidence to the contrary, i could have asked him, but i don't believe he has...
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my name is morgan peck and i'm from the university of south dakota. i studied arabic this past year and i'm just wondering about the future of women diplomats in the middle east and sort of what challenges did you encounter in working with governments from those areas because of the situation of women in those countries? >> it's a very good question. and the answer is, i think, unexpected. i think that governments, particularly in some areas of the gulf where the women don't play the kind of role in every society that you might find in countries in north africa, they are very accustomed to american women diplomats and they're very accustomed to american women policymakers and so in my experience, there was no difference in my ability to be effective with respect to the leadership of those countries, but i was able to be even more effective in my view because i could also get in to see the women. and whereas, you know, in a place like saudi arabia, for example, it would be very unusual -- and this is changing. the current king of saudi arabia has begun
my name is morgan peck and i'm from the university of south dakota. i studied arabic this past year and i'm just wondering about the future of women diplomats in the middle east and sort of what challenges did you encounter in working with governments from those areas because of the situation of women in those countries? >> it's a very good question. and the answer is, i think, unexpected. i think that governments, particularly in some areas of the gulf where the women don't play the kind...