Word: contestable
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Elizabeth Bennett, seven Harry Potters, and the Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly graced the stage of the Holyoke Center’s Forbes Plaza Saturday night as contestants in a literary costume contest at Harvard Square’s first-ever “Bookish Ball...
...Harvard softball team stretched its win streak to seven games yesterday, taking both games of its double-header against Holy Cross. The Crimson was scheduled to face the Crusaders on Tuesday, but bad whether delayed the match-up until yesterday. In the first contest Harvard landed on the winning side of a close 2-1 margin, and in the second, the Crimson bats led the way to an 8-0 victory. “It was great to get two more wins in, going in against Yale and it just keeps our momentum on an upward spin...
...during Senior Day.Harvard’s last preparation before the championship tournaments will be a road trip to the not-so-friendly confines of Providence as the Crimson meets their archrivals Brown in a repeat of this season’s earlier game. The Bears won the first contest 12-4. With all the excitement on tap in the next few weeks, it bodes well for Harvard to be firing on all cylinders right now. Riding high after winning three of their last four, the Crimson will look to continue the momentum and improve upon a 2007 campaign that...
...cowards" after a cock-up involving controversial legislation on genetically modified crops. Kosciusko-Morizet told Le Monde that her immediate boss, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, and parliamentary leader of her own conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Jean-François Copé, had engaged in "a contest of cowardice and inelegance" in cynically refusing to back her up in a tight spot for their own political gain. The spectacle of a cabinet member publicly slagging off her ministerial superior and the majority leader as wimps created a deafening roar on the right...
...esteem issues and personal demons, all steeped in the pop-therapy language of personal growth through challenge. From Survivor to American Idol, reality's premise has been that what does not get you eliminated makes you stronger. The Amazing Race (which shares two producers with Big Give) is part contest, part couples' therapy. The pairs of players who race around the world--squabbling marrieds, doubtful fiancés, estranged parents and kids--regularly say they signed up as much to work on their relationships as to win a million bucks...