1. Region I: Washington DC

Always a perennial powerhouse area, this year the bracket's competitors are all worthy of consideration to make it to the Final Four.

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* 1. The Bush administration team, the "Indifferences", cut taxes like (and for) Republicans, spent money like Democrats, looked the other way on regulation, and, with sheer disengagement and an anything-goes attitude, forgot to mind the store and guard the piggy bank from the bandits.

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"The Distavores", the only foreign entry, looked beyond the beltway to wreak havoc with too many international balls in the air: terrorism and wars; trade policies and imbalances; meltdowns in Europe; oil and environmental concerns; China; and the slightly insane nuclear bad guys. Or was this crisis strictly Made in the U.S.A.?

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