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...says that although there is an interest in keeping master candidates' names out of the student press, there intent is not to keep people totally in the dark. McAfee points out that no one likes to be known as an "also-ran," especially someone who may be considered for another mastership in the future...
...says that although there is an interest inkeeping master candidates' names out of thestudent press, there is no intent to keep peopletotally in the dark. McAfee points out that no onelikes to be known as an "also-ran," especiallysomeone who may be considered for anothermastership in the future...
...giving Johnny Carson the push. Roberto Alagna, 34, was heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into a serious stage career; aside from the practical problems caused by his blindness, it is widely thought that his voice is too small to fill major houses...
Looper was a perennial also-ran in local politics. A candidate in five recent elections, he has switched parties twice; in 1988 he volunteered to work for Al Gore's presidential campaign. This time Looper was running as a Republican, trying to attract attention by legally changing his middle name from Anthony to (Low Tax). The stunt--parentheses and all--did little to disguise his idiosyncrasies. Looper is already under indictment on charges of misuse of office and, in June, had been slapped with a $1.2 million paternity suit by his live-in girlfriend. (He reacted to her charges with...
...above has important implications for everybody's favorite also-ran, Cubs rightfielder Sammy Sosa, who famously preceded his baseball tenure with a shoeshine business in the Dominican Republic...