"I've felt since I first knew about him that he stood on the right side of the ball on social issues," Mr. Falwell said.
"By the time you get to your mid-30s, the repetitive motion of hitting a golf ball leads to all kinds of issues, and if you look at Tiger, you can see that's true.
"In the big picture of this campaign, this issue is a 'jump ball.' " That the issue of the economy is anywhere close to even between the candidates is remarkable.
If we were to plot the tipping over of the unstable cone, we would see that from a small ball of starting conditions, a number of different trajectories issuing forth from this ball would quickly diverge from each other.
Raghuram Rajan: Forget the public utterances: the research done at this place was, essentially, right on the ball — issues of liquidity, the fact that liquidity might dry up, and who's there to provide liquidity in those situations.
He has kept his eye on the ball of human freedom even as the issues and their context changed, from the Gulag Archipelago to ethnic cleansing to female circumcision, championing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alija Izetbegovic and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
On a variety of issues like North Korea, Mr. Obama has essentially picked up the ball where Mr. Bush left it.
After picking up his second golden duck of the tournament against New Zealand, the England captain half-joked that getting past the first ball of his innings was his one issue.
The plan was dropped when it was reported (as it was on both an earlier and a later occasion) that "balls of fire" had issued from the old foundations and scared away the workmen.
