Word: final
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...Sunday afternoon semifinal run, which was televised nationally on NBC, Taylor needed to place in the top four out of eight to move on to the final. Taylor had to improve her previous time by an entire second to advance...
Coming into the final straightaway of the heat, the top four hurdlers managed to pull away from the rest of the pack, leaving Taylor out of the running. After the final hurdle, Taylor managed to outrun two of the other hurdlers lagging behind. That final effort earned her sixth place in the heat, with a time of 57.85 seconds...
...hope for the best. The three wild cards must seem like easy targets - although as head string-puller you'd think he'd do viewers a favor and pick off charisma dead weights Susan, Sean and Kelly, in that order. We shall see. In the meantime, host Jeff Probst finally earns his journalistic stripes by asking Richard the big question: How does a schemer survive the final vote, in which the last seven kicked off choose between the final...
...build a missile shield. Things began unraveling even before the $20 million exoatmospheric kill vehicle left Kwajalein Atoll on Friday night, when the balloon decoy accompanying a mock warhead fired from California failed to inflate. Then, shortly after the launch of the interceptor, its final rocket stage refused to separate from the kill vehicle, dooming the mission. AIR FORCE LIEUT. GENERAL RON KADISH, who runs the military's missile-defense programs, monitored the test from inside a secure Pentagon conference room. His nervous energy soured into bitter disappointment as he watched the $100 million test fall apart despite measures...
...chic, assured film that Raul Ruiz has made of the novel's final volume, Le temps retrouve (Time Regained), is an ideal Proust in pictures. It roams through prewar drawing rooms, attending to whispers of malice and amour. A brilliant man (Marcello Mazzarella, as Marcel) talks to a ravishing woman (Emmanuelle Beart, as Gilberte) of an old wound. "Heartbreak can kill," he says, "but leaves no trace." The roue Charlus (John Malkovich) takes his sexual pleasures at the business end of a whip. These characters are often crushed by the burden of glamour, but the film isn't. It wears...