The race for No. 2 has an especially sharp edge for the McCall campaign.
The bloc he heads, the Southern African Development Community, has come under especially sharp criticism for failing to censure the Zimbabwean government for refusing to publish the results of the presidential election.
The three leading candidates, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, had especially sharp criticism for leaders of the Republican Party.
He had an especially sharp eye for a good headline, once demonstrating the relatively small scale of Beagle-2 by loading a replica into a supermarket trolley and wheeling it through the car park of the Open University.
Breaking $30 was an especially sharp psychological comedown for investors who have watched as the company and its well-known C.E.O., Jeffrey R. Immelt, have struggled over the last year to justify the conglomerate's sprawling structure.
Since it became harder for the able-bodied to draw jobless benefits, the number of Americans claiming to be disabled has more than doubled, with especially sharp rises in claims for things like depression or back pain, which are hard to verify.
Half a million people are now in prison or jail for drug offenses, about 10 times the number in 1980, and there have been especially sharp increases in incarceration rates for women and for people over 55, long past the peak age for violent crime.
Look for Kurt Warner to be especially sharp.
