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Bejeweled Blondes. The natural home of quarter-horse racing is Texas, where ranchers have long enjoyed pitting their fastest horses against the pride of their neighbors. But race-track betting is outlawed in Texas. As a result, the twin capitals of quarter-horse racing−and the site of the...
Randall says he often likes to spend a whole interview leading up to a last question pitting the interviewee against six other imaginary applicants--to simulate the one-in-seven chosen situation and by asking him to distinguish himself "and tell me why we should take you over the others...
Rather than pitting Shockley against a geneticist, or even a man who is committed to an anti-racist view, the Young Americans for Freedom choose National Review publisher William Rusher '50.
Lipset divides political activity into several categories. First, there are internal power-struggles between governing boards, administrators and academics. Second, he recounts numerous philosophically based disputes over educational policy. Early on in Harvard's history these disputes were religiously oriented pitting traditional Congregationalists against the more liberal Unitarians. In later...
IN HIS PERSONAL life, Ruth could be self-indulgent to the point of childish cruelty. His excesses can be partly explained by his sudden claim to wealth and freedom after a strict orphanage upbringing. At times Creamer defends the Babe by pitting hospital appearances against callousness towards young fans, and...