Word: contestation
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...Crimson took their first lead of the night with the first point of the third game, which started out as a tight contest featuring eight ties and five lead changes...
...collegiate start. He struggled early, but began to find space late, finishing the game with 69 yards on 20 carries.“I just felt more into the game,” Gordon said of his nine carries for 39 yards on a single drive late in the contest. “It was just more me getting a feel for the speed of college football, because this is my third game.”Senior Charles Baakel also got his first significant time of the year, gaining 25 yards on eight carries, while junior Randy Ojukwu...
...captain Devon Shapiro said. “They just came out harder than we did and did a great job capitalizing on all of their opportunities.” The Catamounts (8-4) took control of the game early, knocking in a penalty corner 13 minutes into the contest. Less than a minute and a half later, Vermont junior Maegan Luce scored an unassisted goal on the Crimson (5-4) to make the lead 2-0 in the Catamounts’ favor. While Harvard was able to get seven shots in the first period, the first buzzer rang without...
...serious threat to Hillary Clinton. Her lead in national polls has solidified in the double digits, and her sure-footed campaign for the Democratic nomination is starting to take on the sheen of inevitability. Obama remains well behind her everywhere but in Iowa, site of the first presidential contest, where the two are locked in a tight race with former Senator John Edwards. And while both are looking to break a historic barrier--his of race, hers of gender--Obama's is proving to be the more delicate challenge, as shown by questions over his response to the Jena...
Ukraine's 2004 presidential election captured the world's attention with its dramatic contest between a Moscow ally and opposition forces that eventually took to the streets in the peaceful "Orange Revolution" to claim the victory their candidate won at the polls. By contrast, this Sunday's Verkhovna Rada legislative election seems like an endless soap opera with the same tired cast of characters struggling to keep the audience awake...