Word: exitement
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...sacrifice snowy Chianina cattle, prized by the Romans and Etruscans, for their Florentine steaks. Brits stake their rosbif reputation on Aberdeen Angus. However, labels of origin are often misleading and sometimes meaningless, especially when cattle are trucked long distances and merely finished for a few weeks at whatever highway exit will give them more cachet...
...single eye. And the capacity to conduct interior monologues with himself. In the latter, a cranky old crock named Lenny (Philip Bosco) surrenders to senile dementia, leaving his self-absorbed and obscurely damaged children, Wendy and Jon (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman), to devise a minimally dignified exit strategy...
...imaginable. The Iowa caucuses are neighborhood meetings at which voters spend hours arguing with and cajoling one another and organization trumps almost everything else. The actual number of caucusgoers is relatively small - 124,000 turned up four years ago. And they tend to make up their minds late; 2004 exit polls indicated 4 in 10 made their decisions in the last week before the caucuses. What's more, everyone's calculations can be thrown off by a sudden ice storm - or, this time, by the fact that the caucuses are coming on the heels of the holiday season, while colleges...
...Crimson, which failed to repeat as Ivy League champions but still earned an at-large bid and home-field advantage based on its No. 15 ranking, the defeat provided the squad’s second straight early-round exit from the NCAA Tournament...
...Earlier, nerves were palpable. While the exit polls were encouraging and the swing to Labor was on, not enough seats were changing hands in the country's populous southeast. On the monitors, former leader Kim Beazley looms, warning that the result had better not hinge on the late-voting Western Australia, where rude prosperity was helping the government. In the flesh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh sounds grim about her own state, where only two seats are classed as Coalition marginals. "It's a huge ask of Queensland," she says. "We're still in nailbiting territory...