Much effing and blinding could be heard from the fans when they discovered that their team had lost.

Yeah, I getcha, smarty pants.

But efforts like Woods' are up against powerful headwinds — and not just because of the powerful gun lobby that often strangles gun-control laws.

In August 1950 the Council rejected its Russian president’s proposal that a Peking representative should be invited under Article 32. This would have implied recognition of communist China as a state; and the Council, by a slim majority, was committed to the view that China was still legally represented by the government that had fled to Taipeh in 1949.