Word: contestable
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...minutes on Saturday, Harvard played like the fifth-ranked team in the nation. The only problem: hockey games are 60 minutes long.Outplayed virtually the entire contest, the Crimson (3-1-0, 2-1-0 ECAC) suffered its first defeat of the season in a 4-3 upset loss to Clarkson (8-2-1, 3-0-0). Up until the final 10 minutes, Harvard stuggled to make up a multi-goal deficit after the Golden Knights took charge from the start. Clarkson tallied three first-period goals—all on familiar misplays.The Crimson’s young defense continued...
...Blotky and the Crimson entered Saturday’s contest against Yale with an 0-13 league record—a far cry from how the libero must have envisioned her senior night...
...only thing more stunning than the spectacle of a quivering, hangdog Ohio Governor pleading no contest in August to criminal charges is the fact that he is still in office. Bob Taft, the Republican great-grandson of a U.S. President and son of a Senator, could have received a two-year jail term for failing to report, as state law requires, 47 golf outings paid for by others, but a municipal-court judge let him walk after slapping him with a $4,000 fine. Taft has since ignored thunderous demands for his resignation, even from many onetime allies...
Judging the contest will be a group of journalists and innovators, including TIME.com editor Joshua Macht, who edited this week's cover package. And helping promote the contest (and perhaps judge some of the entries) is a man who knows a little bit about inventing great things: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and co-creator of its first products. "True inventors aren't necessarily trying to cause a sea change in society," he says. "They're just trying to solve a problem. Still, I think this contest is going to attract a lot of great ideas, some...
...incomprehension and inertness of the official French response. The President didn't say a word for 10 days. The state of emergency wasn't declared until Day 13. Meanwhile, the Interior Minister and Prime Minister offered dueling slogans and empty promises, with an eye more on their upcoming presidential contest than on the fire this time...