Word: handicaps
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...leaders are exactly the same group that jockeyed for the post after the first post-Saddam election: the incumbent, Ibrahim al-Jafaari; Iran's preferred candidate, Adil Abdul-Mahdi; current American favorite Iyad Allawi; and, the darkest of dark horses, one-time Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi. Asked to handicap the race last January, a leading Iraqi political scientist was reminded of a bumper sticker from an old U.S. Presidential campaign: ?Thank God,? said Wamid Nadhmi, ?that only one of them will become prime minister...
...viable market for a women's golf league? That question has been forever answered." With Sorenstam still dominant and Wie whacking her way up, TV ratings are soaring, galleries are record breaking and corporate sponsors are clamoring to get in. So what's left for Bivens--a 14 handicap at her best--to shoot for? Plenty, especially on the global front. "On just about any Sunday morning, the leaderboard looks like the U.N. roll call," she says. The LPGA Tour will probably add a stop in Thailand in 2006, and Bivens is talking about China next. Back home...
...them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn't run the fastest (record-holder Kingston Rule was three seconds quicker in 1990) or carry the heaviest handicap weight (the legendary Carbine carried 65.5-kg to win in 1890). But that hardly mattered to the whooping crowd, who reached toward the victor's gleaming flanks as she came past. "Have you ever seen a horse like her?" shouted jubilant young men in suits for hours afterwards, while other...
Laxalt, however, would carry a sizable handicap. What the oil industry is to Texas, gambling is to Nevada, and for some voters Laxalt would be tainted by association. After he was Governor of Nevada, Laxalt was the principal owner of the Ormsby House Hotel-Casino in Carson City. Laxalt is currently embroiled in a libel suit against McClatchy Newspapers, which reported that organized crime was involved in skimming nearly $2 million in receipts from the casino. Though the paper did not claim that Laxalt was involved in or knew about the illegal operation, he has vigorously pursued the lawsuit...
...idealistic teacher. The unresponsive institution. The brave deaf children struggling to overcome their handicap. The particularly difficult case. The breakthrough. The setbacks. The ultimate triumph. Children of a Lesser God omits nothing from the formula that guarantees a work to be routinely moving...