Word: contests
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Everyone expected Giuliani-Clinton to be a long, strange race. It might end up being a short, strange one. Nobody expected the tough-guy mayor to be fielding questions about his mid-life crisis or confessing that he has cried; no one imagined that the contest that grew from Hillary's marital woes might be called on account of Rudy's. But whatever Giuliani decides--and his announcement could come this week--it won't be the alleged extramarital liaisons that hurt him. It will be the way he has handled them. New York is not prudish; for the past...
...films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury's benediction...
...race was a tight contest, however, as No. 5 Virginia and No. 6 BU each finished within five seconds of the Black-and-White...
...with their bank accounts, and the risk of ruffling a few feathers at the DOJ may not be sufficiently threatening to give Gates pause. But in light of recent developments, perhaps it should be: Microsoft's legal struggle with government lawyers has metamorphosed into something of a public relations contest, evidenced most recently by the appearance of Microsoft's counteroffer in Sunday's Washington Post, apparently "leaked" to the press days before it was meant to be released. The plan, couched in the company's most conciliatory language to date, seemed designed to placate government tempers while simultaneously maintaining...
Harvard's final game came against the 15th-seeded Wolverines. The Crimson, knowing that this contest would be their last in 2000, finally pulled out a win to finish 15th in the field...