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...position to do so, because he owns the Miss USA franchise. An odd thing to own, I would have thought, especially if you're a married man and therefore do not need to meet girls. "Where are these hotspots?" I asked my wife, perhaps in what she leapt to conclude was a wistful tone, for her answer was, "I notice she hasn't been showing up around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You, the Donald and Al Gore | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

...absolute disgrace, you, you are an absolute disgrace,” shouted Murdoch national political correspondent Glenn Milne, showing the articulate streak that had him employed. The drunk, disheveled reporter then threw Mayne to the ground, jabbering abuse all the while, before security guards leapt onto the stage and dragged him away...

Author: By Bede A. Moore | Title: Drunken Displays, Media Moguls | 12/19/2006 | See Source »

...Allen had a 20-point lead on Webb in June, and that 14:1 fundraising advantage had leapt to 16:1. By July - before Macacagate or ham sandwiches had entered the picture - that lead had closed to around 10. By the end of August, some polls showed Webb ahead. Allen's last desperate move was to funnel some steamy sex scenes cribbed from Webb's novels to Matt Drudge; their content inflamed cultural conservatives. The rest of the state shrugged. At least it could finally be determined that George Allen read books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Allen Blew It in Virginia | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard lead with a kickoff return for a touchdown in a 27-24 Princeton triumph.CALLING CARDPrinceton’s game-winning drive looked to have stalled out after senior safety Danny Tanner broke up a pass on third and four from the Harvard 39-yard line. But after Tanner leapt up and tapped his chest in celebration, the officials called an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, earning protests from the Harvard sideline.“They’ve got a tough job, but I haven’t seen that call in college football, in the Ivy League...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: O’Hagan ‘Gives Us a Spark’ | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...have the save, but the ball deflected off of her and toward the feet of a waiting Okuji, who knocked it home easily for her first collegiate goal. Earlier in the half, freshman goalkeeper Lauren Mann added to her season-long highlight reel of outstanding saves when she leapt to tip Alison Peters’s breakaway shot just over the crossbar. But Mann (six saves) was helpless on the two goals that did make Holy Cross’s side of the scoreboard, as Stand converted from point-blank range on both attempts. Overtime games have not been kind...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Final Seconds Usher in Defeat | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

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