Word: prize
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...years ago, responses might have ranged from ambivalent to enraged, with a fair amount of grumbling about Floridians and Ralph Nader.So just how effective is plurality voting in choosing the “right” candidate—the one preferred by the greatest number of people? Pulitzer Prize nominee William Poundstone explores this question, and others, in his new book “Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It).” His conclusions are quite surprising.A quick read by almost any standard, the book embodies political...
...Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From its opening moments, it may seem that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut...
...have been mainly exaggerations and minor factual errors. He has also used some sound bites and headlines that may offer misconceptions about McCain's motives and ideas. However, when it comes to innuendo, unethical half-truths, character assassination and, yes, plain miserable, rotten lies - I would give McCain the prize. It is obvious that he has veered hopelessly away from ethical conduct and is no longer the man he claims to be. There is no real relative equality in his departure from civility. Peter A. Johnson, Superior...
...final race of the year. In just his second season in Formula One, 23-year-old Briton Lewis Hamilton became its youngest ever world champion, sensationally grabbing fifth place on the last corner of the Interlagos track in São Paulo to claim motor sport's premier prize by a single point from hometown hero and Ferrari star Felipe Massa. Italian Giancarlo Fisichella was less fortunate. Fisichella, 35, and in his thirteenth year in Formula One, was the last driver to finish, and ended the season without a single point...
Recognizing that Bears were now the only undefeated team in Ivy League play left and had completed the hardest part of their schedule, Obama knew that, by winning in Pennsylvania, Brown had put itself in prime position to win the big prize...