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...Cent. CON: Is approximately 132 years old. Fred Thompson (Senator from Tennesse PRO: Sexiest would-be First Lady. CON: We’re just really sick of Law and Order. Rudy Giuliani (Mayor of New York City) PRO: Is an honorary knight. CON: Would probably lose in a joust to John McCain. Ron Paul (Representative from Texas) PRO: Supports legalization of medicinal marijuana—and we thought term-billing massages at UHS was awesome. CON: Libertarianism is SO Junior High...

Author: By Kirsten E.M. Slungaard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Everyone Smells Like Geritol. Except Barack Obama; Barack Obama Smells Like Oprah. | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...show is the movie, as much as it can be: essentially, the story of King Arthur rounding up his Knights in quest of the chalice Jesus drank from during the Last Supper. It reassembles most of the familiar scenes (the Black Knight's joust, the taunting Frenchman, the Trojan Rabbit, gay Prince Herbert), lines (A: "He's a king." B: "How can you tell?" A: "He doesn't have sh-- all over him.") and shtick (the coconut shells in lieu of clip-clopping horses, the characters presumed dead who aren't, quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...bulletproof glass case in the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Barely a month after that defeat, the first Americans showed up in Perth, followed since by yachtsmen from five other nations, all of them plotting how to wrest the Cup from the Aussies. Last week the joust began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Off Down Under | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

That statistic turned out to be crucial in the Princeton game the following week, the first of five straight Ivy League tilts. Facing a 14-3 first-quarter deficit, Harvard reeled off 36 unanswered points to capture the Jersey joust...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Charting the Road to Perfection | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...campaign's televised debate. Until then, Mark Latham had struggled to gain momentum in his first tilt at the top office, but on Sept. 12 the fan of community forums found his rhythm, besting Howard with his confident, relaxed demeanor and clearly reveling in the chance to joust with the seasoned campaigner. From the debate, which most commentators awarded to him, Latham and his campaign seemed to draw new vigor, and by the time he announced Labor's key education policy later that week, the Opposition leader was shaking off his "Mogadon Man" tag. This plan, including a so-called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Trust | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

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