Word: contestability
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Shocking? Disgusting? Pathological? To outsiders, maybe, but not to some 2,000 devoted hunters who gathered last week in Pierre, S.D., for the annual convention of the Varmint Hunters Association. A gregarious bunch whose activities included an ice-cream social and a karaoke contest--not to mention daily shooting matches--the varminters share a passion that few outsiders can grasp...
...happens, Lieberman is a bit of a comedian himself. In 1998, I won a local charity contest called Washington's Funniest Celebrity, in which assorted pols and pundits did stand-up at a local club. The following year, when I was ineligible to compete again, I helped host the event and did my Lieberman schtick, before a larger audience. The senator still got a kick out of it this time, and the cameras were rolling. And he performed himself, winning the contest with one-liners like "When he spoke in the Senate, Bill Bradley used to be called boring...
...left the impression, at least, of generosity and inclusion) may take the game up to a higher and better level. It may focus the Democratic convention, and the campaign and debates to follow, more articulately on differences of principle. Gore is not going to win the personality contest...
...before we go proclaiming the GOP victors in the foreign policy beauty contest, we ought to consider their own record. President Clinton might have pioneered a dysfunctional and dangerous cruise-missile diplomacy, but he's never matched the cynicism and pure "Dr. Strangelove" nuttiness of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada. That from the same administration that gave us Iran-Contra and shipped Stinger missiles to the likes of Osama Bin Laden back in the '80s simply because they were fighting the Soviets. And it was the Bush administration, after all, that not only stood back when...
...women in the glamour business were considered licentious. Now, conservative middle-class dads urge their daughters into bikinis, and moms put them on high-protein diets intended (perhaps naively) to help them achieve the ramp-mandatory 5-ft. 7-in. height requirement. The organizer of the annual Miss India contest, the Times of India group of newspapers and magazines, reports receiving applications by the sackful. Eventually, 600 hopefuls will be chosen for the elimination rounds, and just 30 will make it to the final show. But the deluge of applicants continues. "People have definitely become very, very aspirational," says Pradeep...