Word: 39th
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...council election commis- sion-fearing that the resemblance to the 39th president's moniker would cause students to dismiss the candidacy as a joke-registered Carter first as "James Carter," and then as "James 'Jimmy' Carter," when Carter protested...
When the nominees for the 39th annual Grammy Awards were announced last week, a lot of familiar, if not shopworn, names were on the list, including Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow and Journey. There were also, thankfully, some fresh, exciting names--the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees certainly deserved their nomination in the Album of the Year category, as teenage country crooner LeAnn Rimes did hers for Best New Artist. But one name stood out from all the others. Or rather, kind of leaned against the wall, looking cooler than everyone else in the vicinity in a throwback...
...dance she did on the talk shows," noted cultural critic and openly bisexual Camille Paglia. "She was asking America, 'Is it O.K.? Will you still like me if...?' It was wimpy. It robbed the act of any courage." But then Ellen, a onetime Top 10 show that plummeted to 39th in the ratings last season, has never been marked by bold confidence. Aimless and conceptually muddled from the outset, when it debuted as These Friends of Mine in March 1994, the sitcom has become so creatively stultified that a controversy over homosexuality is truly the least of its problems...
...offensive as Fuhrman's words may be, they are nothing when compared with the scandal in Philadelphia. To date, along with Brown, five other cops have pleaded guilty to such charges as setting up innocent victims, selling drugs and beating and threatening people, primarily poor blacks in the 39th District. As a result, 46 of their criminal convictions have been overturned, with many more still to come. Last week federal investigators expanded their search to include the Highway Patrol, subpoenaing logs of as many as 100,000 arrests over 10 years. "It's nothing new," says Jerry Day, sitting...
When the Crimson took on 39th-ranked Penn, it was faced with another drastic change of surface--this time to outdoor hard court--which Madura admits "probably caused problems for some people...