Smackdowns, Takeovers and Rebuffs

It’s been a week of one-upsmanship, and not just courtesy of the the Boston Celtics: The Supreme Court stood up to the Bush administration over constitutional habeas rights for prisoners at Guantanamo; airlines continued to smack new fees on everything from luggage to bottled water, irking customers; Anheuser-Busch Cos., the nation’s biggest brewery, received a $46 billion buyout offer from a Belgian brewer; Obama moved key elements of the Democratic National Committee into his own campaign’s Chicago headquarters. And Slate dismantled Planet Green.