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...same rate. On the other hand, Stillman's postulate that CBS wanted to keep crusty septuagenarian Rudy Boesch to hang on to older viewers - the most actively despised demographic in television - is weird, to say the least. (CBS bought "Survivor" largely to win a younger audience.) Being a rank legal amateur, I'll leave it to trained professionals - or another set of legal rank amateurs drawn from the San Francisco jury pool - to decide whether Stacey has a case. But her lawsuit raises a couple of interesting questions. What constitutes "rigging" a reality game show anyway? And does anybody care...
...rankings predict potential dual meet finishes based on the top performances on each team, and rank accordingly. Unlike the NCAA meet, which awards points solely to absolute highest competitors--like Gyorffy and Siilats--these rankings, like the Heptagonal Championships, make some depth requisite to be at the top. Rankings which predict the NCAA score place Harvard at about 15th in the country, based on the assumption that Gyorffy will compete...
...This lack of solidarity is adding to a growing desperation among the meditation group's rank and file, many of whom feel out of touch with their exiled master and misguided by his overseas ministers. Ever since Beijing outlawed it as an "evil cult" two years ago, Falun Gong?an eclectic mix of Taoism, Buddhism and Qigong breathing exercises?has prided itself on its organizational acumen. In April 1999, the group achieved the impossible, silently assembling 10,000 adherents in front of Beijing's walled leadership compound. Even as thousands of its members were thrown into labor camps and more...
...course, impossibly expensive and taking hours upon hours of hand labor. There are the clients, pampered, primped and primed for their moment in the fashion spotlight. There is the schedule, with only about four must-see shows a day it?s virtually a vacation for the fashion editors who rank high enough to attend...
Russian figure skaters can take a patriotic turn to Tchaikovsky. Americans can glide to Gershwin. But nobody in the skating community has heard of Xian Xinghai, one of China's premier composers. And that's a problem for Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the skating duo who rank among China's top medal hopes for the Salt Lake City Games. "If we choose to skate to the most famous Chinese music," says Zhao, "no one will even recognize it, which puts us at a big disadvantage. It isn't really fair...