Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...exceptionally fast race, with 14 runners finishing within two hours 30 minutes, Chepchumba and Simon both finished inside the previous Olympic best time. As she entered the stadium for one lap of the track Takahashi's race was nearly cut short by an overzealous official who stepped out with the finish ribbon, but realized her mistake and let the runner past to complete the race. Japanese journalists thronged the athlete afterward, wanting to interview their new heroine and her coach for special late editions of their newspapers...
...junior safety Eric LaHaie made the clutch open-field tackle to keep the Bears a yard short. Brown elected to go for the field goal and the 10-0 lead. The second quarter was Harvard's best defensively, despite a 73-yard touchdown run of Brown back Mike Malan. The Crimson limited Brown's offense to 10 plays on its other three drives of the quarter. On the first stop, Balestracci and junior lineman Ryan Fitzgerald teamed up to stop Malan, and then on third down cornerback Willie Alford knocked away a high lob intended for Campbell. The other...
...Dropping out at 17, Rodriguez earned her GED and spent a full year "without any direction," composing poetry and short stories before deciding to write screenplays. Figuring "the best way to learn about movies was to become an actress," she fell for an old showbiz scam, signing up with a talent agency that charged hundreds of dollars for publicity pictures and then sent her on open casting calls advertised in Backstage...
...fact, officials familiar with the case say, the FBI investigation is only in its preliminary stages and has not progressed beyond the compilation of a short list of Bush campaign officials who were authorized to have access to the specific tape and documents that Gore adviser Tom Downey says arrived unsolicited in his mail on Sept. 13. The list does not include the larger universe of persons who may have had unauthorized access to the campaign material in question - lower-level campaign aides, volunteers, couriers, employees at copying or tape duplicating services, family and friends of campaign officials...
...first good week since the convention, and there's only one explanation: Oprah. She can sell mediocre books, why not slumping candidates? In the dog days of his a__hole aside and the "subliminable" RATS ad, Bush swore he would switch to campaigning on issues. But that was a short-lived promise to silence critics worried about how quickly Gore had closed the charm gap. Last Wednesday Bush admitted he would be too busy this fall to reveal any details of his missile-defense system. He conceded earlier that he was having a hard time communicating the details...