Word: contests
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...literature? The two seem about as compatible as Apple Jacks and peanut butter. But with the channel's first fiction contest, MTV has managed to find a novel that sets the demands of pop culture alongside the standards of literary fiction and emerges as a unified whole. The winner of the contest, Robin Troy '96 delivers Floating, a novel that is young and entertaining enough to be MTV, yet mature and developed enough to be thought-provoking and powerful...
Then there's the site-sponsored contest, "Predict History." Here visitors help make resignation a bit easier by composing the President's farewell speech for him. The winner will earn a trip to the island of Elba, Napoleon's retreat after he called it a day. Another contest involves predicting the date and hour of the President's resignation. The winner earns a trip to wherever the First Family flees after the moment of ultimate disgrace...
...This is not just as they say quite a'popularity contest,'" she said. "We getexcellent leaders every year that are a very goodcross section of the population...
After sitting out last week's Ball State Invitational to rest up after a busy summer season, Blake showed that he was still in top form, winning three-set matches over Illinois's Cary Franklin and Tennessee's Mark Fitzpatrick and a straight-set contest against Adam Selkirk of Minnesota...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--If sheer number of scoring opportunities paints a perfect picture of ability, the better team won Saturday's women's soccer contest between Harvard and Pennsylvania...