Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Before Saturday's contest, the Yale band offered the following warm salutation to the Harvard men's hockey team: "Welcome to the Whale. Prepare...
...reason so many different folks are drawn to his campaign. It is why veterans break down in tears at his book signings. It is why some independents who stopped caring about politics a long time ago are suddenly reading and watching all they can about the primary contest. It is why those voters who have no particular connection to the military reserve such affection for someone who does. Whether or not they really know what McCain stands for, how he has voted, where he has succeeded and failed along the way, they have an idea of him they...
...women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach as he is." There was a "personality test," in which 10 semifinalists answered questions along the lines of how they'd spend his money and, by the way, would they mind...
Love at first sight? I'll buy that. A contest to marry some guy with deep pockets? I can't make it play...
...this woman, and all the others who entered into the bride contest, decide to answer the cattle call? Well, duh. Ka-ching! For money, for 15 minutes of manufactured fame, two complete strangers tie the knot on national television. Any bets on how long that knot will take to unravel...