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(CNN) -- Wednesday night's CNN debate lands at a critical moment in the Republican race.

This season, each debate has set the tone for the primary to follow. Newt Gingrich's savaging of the media helped propel him to victory in South Carolina. Mitt Romney's savaging of Gingrich helped him to clinch Florida. The current uncertainty about the race, and the extraordinary elasticity in the polls, is partly due to the fact that we haven't had a debate for a whole month.

It's important, then, for each of the candidates to make a powerful impression in this last confrontation before Arizona and Michigan vote on February 28. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich will compete over who is the most conservative, and Ron Paul will push his unique brand of libertarianism. Same old, same old. But we might see something new from Mitt Romney: a glimmer of humanity.

The latest CNN/Time/ORC International Poll shows that Santorum is closing the gap on Romney in Arizona, but it's probably in Michigan that he stands the best chance of scoring an upset. A week ago, polls put Santorum as much as 10 points ahead in the Great Lakes State. But now they call it a statistical dead heat between him and Romney.

So it would serve Santorum well to hit Mitt hard in the debate. This is Rick's natural style -- he gets a thrill out of counting the flaws of his opponents. But Santorum also probably recognizes that the only way he'll win Michigan is by reminding voters of the doubts that they have about Romney's conservatism. That's what he's been doing in the western part of the state all this week, where he has hit out repeatedly at Romney's "well-oiled weathervane" stance on issues like abortion and Iran.

1. On what night was the debate?
2. On what network?
3. Was the debate Democratic?
4. What party was it related to?
5. Who won in South Carolina?
6. To what was his victory attributed?
7. Who won in Florida?
8. What was his victory attributed to?
9. How much time had passed since the last debate?
10. How many points ahead was Santorum in one of the polls a week ago?
11. In what state?
12. What is the actual name of that state?
13. What outlets were associated with the international poll?
14. Are there states holding a vote in February?
15. What is the first state?
16. And the second?
17. On what day in February?
18. What branch of politics is Paul associated with?
19. What is his first name?
20. What does Santorum like counting regarding his opponents?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Wednesday
2. CNN
3. no
4. Republican
5. Newt Gingrich
6. savaging of the media
7. Mitt Romney
8. savaging of Gingrich
9. month
10. 10
11. Great Lakes State
12. Michigan
13. CNN/Time/ORC
14. yes
15. Arizona
16. Michigan
17. 28
18. libertarianism
19. Ron
20. flaws of his opponents

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CHAPTER XXX

FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in September and shrieked at Carol, "School starts next Tuesday. I've got to have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down the lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the doctor? Cy Bogart wants to go--he's a brat but he's lively."

"I don't think the doctor can go," sedately. "He said something about having to make a country call this afternoon. But I'd love to."

"That's dandy! Who can we get?"

"Mrs. Dyer might be chaperon. She's been so nice. And maybe Dave, if he could get away from the store."

"How about Erik Valborg? I think he's got lots more style than these town boys. You like him all right, don't you?"

So the picnic of Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable.

They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. Dave Dyer was his most clownish self. He yelped, jigged, wore Carol's hat, dropped an ant down Fern's back, and when they went swimming (the women modestly changing in the car with the side curtains up, the men undressing behind the bushes, constantly repeating, "Gee, hope we don't run into poison ivy"), Dave splashed water on them and dived to clutch his wife's ankle. He infected the others. Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them.

1. Who couldn't come with?
2. According to whom?
3. How many people ended up going?
4. Were there any couples?
5. Who?
6. What does Erik have more than other boys?
7. Where were they all going?
8. Why?
9. During what month?
10. And on what day of the week?
11. What time of day?
12. Where did the guys undress?
13. What were they afraid of?
14. Where did the women do the same?
15. What did Cy do when people were eating?
16. Who went there together?
17. What did Dave drop down someone's back?
18. What was the lake called?
19. What kind of trees were there?
20. Why couldn't one of the people come?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the doctor
2. Carol
3. Six
4. Yes
5. the Dyers
6. style
7. to the lake
8. to have a picnic
9. September
10. Saturday
11. the afternoon
12. behind the bushes
13. poison ivy
14. in the car
15. climbed a tree to throw acorns at them
16. Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers
17. an ant
18. Lake Minniemashie
19. birch trees
20. he had to make a country call

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U.S. billionaire Bill Gates went to watch a game of his friend, U.S. teen player Ariel Hsing, at the ExCel Centre while the girl was playing against Chinese Li Xiaoxia. Gates wore an orange jacket and dark blue baseball cap. He sat in the front row of thespectators' stand andapplauded for every point Hsing scored. "I'm wishing her the best of luck, but the opposite player is really great," Gates said. Hsing was in her third match at London 2012. She had already beaten Mexico's Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian. Hsing is known in the U.S. as a close friend with billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates. She is close enough to call them "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill". Buffett met Hsing when she was only 9. Two years later, he invited her to play against his friends. She has returned several times after that. Earlier this year after winning a position on the U.S. team, she took a few points off Buffett and Gates. When asked whether he has won a point off Hsing, Gates said, "She beat me when she was nine. She has been nice to me."

1. Who are two of Hsing's billionaire friends?
2. Is she friends with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates?
3. Are they billionaires?
4. What does Hsing call them?
5. How was old was she when she met Bill Gates?
6. How old was she when he invited her to play against his buddies?
7. What did Bill wear to the game at ExCel Centre?
8. Did he have a good seat?
9. Who did Hsing defeat from Mexico?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. unknown
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill".
5. Nine
6. 11
7. orange jacket and dark blue baseball ca
8. Yes
9. Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian.