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...candidates. A recent Time poll shows Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton leading their respective competitors nationally, but the race is still wide open. Bill Clinton has described campaigning for President as a job interview, with an application process consisting of unrelenting media scrutiny and a grueling coast-to-coast gauntlet of events and debates. Here we present the top-tier finalists...
Lebanon's art-deco parliament building in downtown Beirut has the look of an old-time movie palace, which seemed appropriate on Tuesday as a steady stream of armored black luxury cars disgorged the country's politicians, who walked up the steps through a gauntlet of journalists as if they were actors at a high-security red-carpet ceremony. As it happened, however, the show was a dud. Meeting for the first time in over nine months, Lebanon's parliament opened today for a special session to elect a president of the republic, and then almost immediately shut down without...
This past weekend, Brown, tied with Harvard for the Rolfe lead, placed before the rolling Crimson the gauntlet of a double twinbill...
Whew. That’s how Joe Walsh described how his Harvard team felt before its Ivy Championship Series date with Princeton last spring. After surviving the brutal gauntlet of the Rolfe Division—last-place Yale finished with an 11-9 mark, or the same record as the Gehrig Division-winning Tigers—the Crimson exhaled when it saw black and orange in the visitors’ dugout. “Maybe we needed to be on edge like we were every weekend,” Walsh said, “knowing that if you drop...
...amphitheater on the outskirts of London. Jem and Maisie, having grown up in a community of thirty families, thus find themselves loosed on the raucous streets of the burgeoning metropolis.The street-smart and scrappy Maggie Butterfield takes Jem under her wing and the two run the gauntlet of 18th-century London’s diversions, singing along to the bawdy songs of hurdy-gurdy players and tasting beer in pubs where flies circle the mugs and idlers hotly debate the increasing radicalism of the revolution in France.They also befriend their neighbor, the enigmatic Blake, whom they have spied playing...