1.   Gray does maintain some on-screen tension once the bullets start to fly, and the final showdown has its moments.

2.   Showdown Saturday has the games we want to see.

3.   The Hoffa-Carey showdown has the trappings of a presidential race, though on a smaller scale.

4.   The showdown will have no impact on these standings.

5.   The showdown has constitutional as well as political implications -- and has raised questions of whether the GAO is being politically manipulated.

6.   But the showdown has left villagers frightened and cut off from the main provincial city by rebel roadblocks and government bunkers.