Word: rivaled
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Murphy has long sported a bag of tricks to rival Harry Houdini's, and Saturday he engineered a pair of razzle-dazzle plays that materially assisted the Crimson...
...rival publication, Parenting, has published Parenting Guide to Pregnancy & Childbirth (Ballantine), designed to take you from conception to the early weeks after birth. How should the pregnant mom eat? What about sex? What about exercise? When should you tell the news to your boss? Here are some answers...
...Steve Gunderson. Of the 200 candidates the group endorsed this year, 14 were Republicans, including Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, a chief sponsor of the hate-crimes bill. Now the group is locked in an internal struggle over whether to endorse New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato over his Democratic rival, Representative Charles Schumer. Though conservative on abortion rights and other liberal litmus tests, D'Amato has in recent years come around on most gay issues...
Schumer, the son of a Brooklyn exterminator, is D'Amato's most formidable rival ever, a nine-term Congressman with solid centrist credentials, a dazzling legislative record, and as much energy, ambition and shamelessness as D'Amato. (The most dangerous place in Washington, Bob Dole once said, is between Schumer and a TV camera.) And this time, some of D'Amato's old tricks haven't been working. He and his consultant, the reclusive Arthur Finkelstein, like to brand opponents as hopelessly, shamelessly, endlessly liberal, but Schumer supports the death penalty and wrote the 1994 Crime Bill, which...
...needed after days of being battered by the government in the landmark antitrust case. It shows former Netscape boss Jim Clark inviting Microsoft to "take an equity position" in his firm -- more than six months before the June 1995 meeting in which Microsoft allegedly tried to strong-arm its rival into an anticompetitive agreement. The surprise mail was produced with a flourish during the cross-examination of Jim Barksdale; Netscape's current CEO, however, had done his homework. Clark told him, he said, that the message was written "in a moment of weakness...