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...Bonnaroo's Mayers, for one, downplays the festival face-off, noting that Coachella was an inspiration for Bonnaroo and shares its genealogy as a descendent of Woodstock, the iconic '60s music festival that started it all. "We're not in a competition with anyone," Mayers says. "We're much different events. First of all, we're on the other side of the country, and we're a camping event too. Everyone is living here together and I think that really differentiates us from a festival like Coachella...
...know if I will be able to go back to France. After a second time, they will kill me." CHRISTIAN VANNEQUE, French wine expert and panelist at a rematch of a famous 1976 face-off in which French wines were beaten by their Californian counterparts in a blind tasting. California wines took the top five places in last week's competition...
...remaining, the match went 11:38 without a score until Big Green freshman Brian Koch put the game away with 1:16 gone in the third overtime.In those periods, Harvard appeared to take control for the first time since the opening minutes. Junior John Henry Flood won the face-off at the beginning of each overtime to give his team the opportunity to strike before Dartmouth had the chance.“Over the course of the overtime we had possession probably two-thirds or three-quarters of the time, because John Henry was doing such a good...
...undulations of the U.S. death rate. But when George W. Bush and John Kerry square off this week in Coral Gables, Fla., in the first of three presidential debates, Iraq will be the main--and surely most vital--subject. Both candidates spent the days leading up to the face-off sharpening their differences over the state of the occupation. At a speech in New York City, Kerry trashed Bush's upbeat assessment of conditions in Iraq and the next day accused the Commander in Chief of living in a "world of fantasy spin" for speaking of Iraq as a budding...
...Minister in postwar Italy, Berlusconi might be tempted to try to score points off his opponent's youth and inexperience--except that his rival, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, is 66. Whoever wins, Italy will remain the only West European country with a sexagenarian Prime Minister. For Italians the face-off between two candidates born in the 1930s is a discomfiting reminder of the country's geriatric tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters, nothing that stimulates...