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...singles action, sophomore Oliver Choo and freshman Cliff Nguyen scored major third round upsets, but neither could keep their magic going in the quarterfinals. Choo, unseeded, outlasted No. 4 Oscar Chow of Columbia in a three-hour, back-and-forth war, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3), but lost in round four to Penn State's Gresh...
...Crimson leapt into action immediately after a six-hour bus ride, and still managed to tussle with the Tigers in a back-and-forth battle...
...talk shows rather than in the more traditional formats he eventually agreed to, they will still provide the candidates plenty of opportunity to mix it up. Next week, for instance, each question will be followed by an answer, a rebuttal and then a loosely structured period of back-and-forth. Some questions could be discussed for more than six minutes. That's an eternity by presidential-debate standards. The candidates will be situated more informally, seated at a table, for their meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Oct. 11, and, finally, will take questions from the audience at a town...
...will cost to reshape Social Security into a system that will let Americans invest part of their premiums. Gore's people believe Bush has the rigor and tight message to get through the first two answers but that his riff will begin to sound thin in the back-and-forth. Here too they hope to get to what they see as the point of their endeavor: raising doubts about whether Bush has the weight...
...back-and-forth over breakfast was probably the day's most reasonable conversation. Minutes later the candidate was on "Good Morning America" and Diane Sawyer was asking him about the ad. The Pack was off. Among the stories being ignored that day was what the campaign is actually planning to do, which is go strongly negative. But the rest of the day Bush and his aides were ducking rat questions...