Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...there? "Big Brother" takes the viewers way past rooting interest, giving the masses a vote on which of a pair of rejects has to leave the CBS lot each week and letting them choose the $500,000 winner from among the final three contestants. (Early guess: In a house that has cameras everywhere, Jordan the exotic dancer and Jamie, Miss Washington 2000, will be among the last to be booted from afar...
...Both Barak and Arafat are under pressure on the home front and have been forced to take tough positions in order to shore up their domestic support. Arafat over the weekend reiterated his intention to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state should a September 13 deadline pass without a final peace agreement. And Barak, just emerging from the near-collapse of his government coalition, again warned that Israel would retaliate by annexing land and suffocating the new state...
...while Arafat and Barak will show up in Washington next week, neither will be in a mood to compromise at the urging of a lame duck American president. Which means the chances of Bill Clinton's presiding over a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement are increasingly remote. Instead, Arafat will probably declare his state sometime between the election and the inauguration, the Israelis will retaliate, and the next U.S. president will be called on to referee a new phase of their increasingly complex clash...
...semifinal and has taken three of four career matches from her younger, shorter sis. Though Serena took the U.S. Open last year and was touted as the sister to beat, family karma suggests it's Venus's turn to take her shot in a major final...
...have a personal perspective on Tiger's runaway victory at Pebble. It made me think back to my own U.S. Open victory at Oakmont in 1973. My final round there, an eight-under-par 63, remains the lowest ever shot in a major championship. But I wasn't able to maintain that level of focus for all four days of the tournament. My 63 was preceded by a 76. Tiger, by contrast, shot 65-69-71-67 and led virtually from wire to wire. Sure, you can say the same of Secretariat, but his big victory was accomplished in less...