Topic - Bill

• Goodell says NFL hoping to add 2nd game in London

  NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is interested in adding a second regular-season game in London and says the move will be discussed at the owners meetings this week.

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  DECKER: Hillary Clinton's last chance

  The debate in Orlando Thursday night put the spotlight on Republican contenders for president. However, there is another primary race developing behind the scenes that promises to be even more interesting: a rematch between Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Mrs. Clinton would be the stronger candidate in 2012 and is much more likely to keep the White House in Democratic hands.

• With father in mind, Virginia-Indiana a special rivalry for Phillips brothers

  Virginia tight end Colter Phillips was injured last week, but Cavaliers coach Mike London said he "wouldn't even try" to keep Phillips off the plane this weekend.

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  Panetta blunt but unsteady in debut abroad

  At once blunt and bubbly, poised but prone to gaffes, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta showed on his first overseas trip as Pentagon chief that he has framed his agenda but not yet mastered the art of expressing it publicly in detail.

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  MOVIE REVIEW: 'Beautiful Boy'

  Shawn Ku's haunting, emotionally taut new film, "Beautiful Boy," hinges on a few remarkable performances, and though it fails to deliver on the promise of its premise, it is a credible depiction of a couple's search for a way forward through extraordinary grief.

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  TYRRELL: Clinton and the episodic apologists

  Frankly, I did not think of Chris Matthews as an episodic apologist until I watched his MSNBC documentary, "President of the World: The Bill Clinton Phenomenon," this week. The episodic apologists were a familiar fixture of the Clinton administration, much as the court historians were a fixture of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Whereas the court historians could always be relied upon to spin history FDR's heroic way, the episodic apologists always end up slobbering all over the Clintons - albeit with a twist.

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  Hall of Fame pitcher Feller dies at 92

  Bob Feller, the Iowa farm boy whose powerful right arm earned him the nickname "Rapid Robert" and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers during a Hall of Fame career with the Cleveland Indians, has died. He was 92.

• BOOK REVIEW: Sainted ex-senator takes aim

  Let us stipulate, as the lawyers say, that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who took James L. Buckley's U.S. Senate seat from him in 1976, was far from the worst thing that ever happened to the Senate or its delegation from the Empire State

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  FIELDS: Growing up with POTUS

  Chelsea Clinton is getting married, and we all wish her well on the biggest day of a girl's life. Bill and Hillary were the focus of scandal and controversy, left, right and in-between, but never the first child. Chelsea's parents and the press deserve credit for preserving her privacy when she was growing up, first in the governor's mansion in Little Rock, Ark., and then in the White House. That's as it should be.

• Outrage persists over tournament

  The "Many decry popular bass tournaments" column, which ran Aug. 5, hit home with reader Wayne C., who lives in Charles County, where most of the big out-of-town tidal Potomac River events are launched.

• A little fatigue goes a long way

  The presidential candidates, particularly the Democrats, are beginning to feel sorry for themselves. They ought to feel sorry for us.

• Yes, Virginia, you can make wine

  Dan Mortland once was able to fit what he knew about the wine business into a small glass of Syrah. Now, he can tell you about soil composition, area rainfall, oak barrels, crushing machines, tasting rooms and government regulations.

• Arkansas Hillary's Southern strategy

  THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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