Word: photo-finish
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...recount had been brought about by a photo-finish race for school committee in which three candidates competing for the last two slots were separated by only seven ballots...
...hand, if anyone was grandstanding for the benefit of the Nielsen families here, as courtroom-camera critics maintain, they were doing a lousy job of it. (With the possible exception of Laurence Tribe, who sounded well-stocked with Gore camp sports metaphors, likening the deadline extension to checking a "photo-finish" rather than "changing the rules after the game.") No one rhymed, blustered or whipped out gloves. Perhaps because the "jury" the lawyers were addressing here would be likely to tear them a few new orifices if they went all Dylan McDermott in this courtroom. (And note that the unprecedented...
...scion of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Mill Neck, N.Y., after returning from his daily visit to the Belmont racetrack. Vanderbilt was the consummate sportsman aristocrat and society high flyer. The owner of the great Thoroughbred Native Dancer, he helped introduce the use of the starting gate and the photo-finish camera...
Harvard's Olympic medal count jumped OT two this weekend, as rower Anna B. Seaton '86 took a bronze medal in Saturday morning's photo-finish paris race...
Nevertheless, the Crimson had several strong performances. Paul Kent was a double winner in the mile and 1,000 meters, and freshman Sean Turbitt turned in an excellent effort to place third in a photo-finish 55-meter hurdles...