Word: tug-of-war
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Bethlehem, Nazareth in Holy Battle Come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem? Not if Nazareth can help it. The two towns are engaged in a tug-of-war over the title of Jesus' hometown ? with millions in tourism revenues at stake...
PNOMH PENH, Cambodia: One day after Pol Pot was reported captured by a Khmer Rouge faction, a shamefaced First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh conceded that the notorious Khmer Rouge leader remains at large. That places the temporary advantage in Cambodia's explosive political tug-of-war in the hands of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, led by Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has long insisted that Pol Pot is dead. As TIME's Dean Fischer reports: "These two rival factions are trying to maneuver against each other, and one may be manipulating the facts...
...decision places President Clinton squarely in the middle of a constitutional tug-of-war that U.S. Presidents have fought with the American judiciary since Thomas Jefferson rejected the idea that a sitting President could, or should, be compelled to testify in court. Five recent U.S. Presidents have given testimony in criminal cases. While Presidents Nixon and Reagan testified in courtrooms afterleaving office, Presidents Ford, Carter and Clinton gave videotaped testimony while serving. President Clinton did so in 1996, answering a Whitewater subpoena. In the present case, the Court gave Clinton at least one escape route: the justices gave the federal...
...repeating year after year. Perhaps Springfest could be moved from the MAC Quad to a more spacious locale such as the real Quad, the Tercentenary Theater, or even the Yard; the festivities could be extended into Saturday evening with nighttime movies or performances, and athletic contests such as tug-of-war could be added for variety. We trust that Council members and volunteers could make Springfest more creative and more fun, if only they put their minds...
...been downhill after that," says Fagles, only half-jokingly, about the history of Western narrative since Homer. The six years he spent translating the Odyssey involved long, grinding sessions with Greek lexicons and his own imagination, engaged in a "tug-of-war between ancient Greek words and their modern English equivalents." He passed versions of his work around to trusted colleagues, particularly Bernard Knox, who taught him more than 40 years ago at Yale and whose introduction to the new Odyssey is marvelously informative. Fagles reworked and revised some passages more than 20 times. His labors now ended, Fagles pronounces...