Word: contestation
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...voters, the trip is a chance to gauge how a 46-year-old Senator with relatively little Washington experience might fare on the world stage. That was the promise in making such a high-profile tour in the middle of a tight presidential contest, but there was some risk, too: the danger of a gaffe or, perhaps worse, that voters would see the foreign swing not as an bold audition but as a supreme act of presumption. To help guard against that, Obama spent the Iraq and Afghanistan portions of the trip flanked by Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode...
...come-from-behind astonishments to nip the San Francisco Giants on the last day of the season. This year all that separated the heavyweight champ and the top contender from their inevitable rematch were exhibition bouts against unranked palookas: the Chicago White Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies. No contest. The challengers would be, in boxing parlance, moiderized. And indeed, Toronto, spurred by starting pitcher Juan Guzman, laundered the Sox in six sleepy games. The White Sox were like boxing's white hope of a decade ago, Gerry Cooney: slow, muscle-bound, awed, overwhelmed. But the Phillies were Rocky. After vaulting...
...companion in his final days, she had acted at the 33- year-old comedian's urging. In Los Angeles last week, Smith's legal battle ended in a compromise. Prosecutors dropped a second-degree murder charge against the Canadian-born defendant in exchange for her plea of no contest to a count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of administering and furnishing narcotics to Belushi. Instead of a possible 25 years to life, she faces a maximum of eight years and eight months. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox conceded that the accused ''honestly believes from a moral standpoint that...
...Nerves don't play a part in this.' CRYSTLE STEWART, Miss USA, in an interview before she tripped and fell during the Miss Universe 2008 contest...
...exactly one year later he would enthusiastically support the decision to topple the Iraqi regime by force. But to McCain, his encounter with Bush that day was more evidence of the shallow intellect and dangerous self-regard possessed by the man to whom he had lost an acrimonious contest two years earlier. Later, McCain would retell the story and shake his head incredulously. "Can you believe this guy?" he asked. "He's the President!" He didn't say it, but the continuation of the thought hung in the air: Can you believe this guy is President - instead...