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"I'm not going to call us a contender, but what I'm hearing from people in baseball is that our starting rotation could be one of the top two or three in baseball," Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diamondbacks Sign Johnson | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

Strothman's accomplishments this season have won him the reputation of a serious national contender in the sailing world. Together, he and Fox led the Harvard co-ed sailing team to a fourth-place national ranking earlier in the season.

Author: By Cathy Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Sends Three To U.S.-Japan Regatta | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

The next contender was Matt Cooper of Newsweek, the odds-on favorite to win (though, having actually performed at the Improv, he was regarded the way Soviet-bloc Olympians used to be: as suspiciously professional). The round, bald Cooper suggested that Al Gore might try to copy Bill Clinton's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guy Walks into a Press Briefing... | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

HOGAN PLANS TO BE A CONTENDER

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

FAY BOOZMAN, an eye surgeon and Republican contender for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed that a fear-driven adrenaline rush keeps rape victims from getting pregnant. Guess someone slept through a semester in med school.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! The Top Gaffes of Election '98 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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