Word: face-off
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Jack E. Robinson pushed forward with his unconventional U.S. Senate campaign last night, telling a crowd of 22 at MIT that "anything is possible if you put your mind to it"--including a victory in his seemingly impossible face-off against six-term Democratic incumbent Edward M. Kennedy...
...this means that the Crimson is still very much in contention for its second consecutive Ivy League title. Harvard has several important league games still to play, including a face-off with the first-place Tigers in October...
...perhaps the most highly anticipated face-off, 5th District U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan--breaking a pledge to not run for a fifth term--easily defeated Democrats Joseph...
...talking about something really serious: public humiliation. Earlier this year, when R.-and-B. star Sisqo was on tour with the boy band 'N Sync, he would regularly attend after-parties in area clubs. Invariably, a local hotshot would slide up to him for a dance-floor face-off. "I would pretty much get challenged every night," says Sisqo, who is known for the impishly kinetic footwork in his videos. "Someone would go in the middle and start spinning on their head and jumping around and flipping around and then give me a look like, 'What...
Frank: Well, that's exactly the point - when the debates actually happen, none of this nitpicking and needling is going to be remembered. What matters for Bush is how he actually performs in that first face-off (and then the last one), and although he's got a good chance to pull a Reagan on Gore's Carter, ceding ground on substance and winning on style, it's certainly not in his interest to raise expectations of his own chances. Meanwhile, Gore is hyping himself right into a no-win situation...