Word: second
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost no one, not even Driskell herself, expected her to win by a landslide of 1,215 votes--more than double the total of the second-place contender...
Shewchuk and Botterill, both among the top five in the conference in scoring, are not the only Canadians on the Crimson roster. Senior goaltender Crystal Springer is from Flin Flon, Manitoba, and Harvard Coach Katey Stone calls her second forward line--consisting of juniors Kiirsten Suurkask and Tara Dunn and freshman Kalen Ingram--the "Canuck line...
...just three seasons, Tinsley has passed 1,600 points for her career, becoming only the second Husky player to do so. She could finish her career this year as the top scorer in Northeastern history if she passes Pam Green's school record...
...four generations of the Martin family, particularly Little Miss and her granddaughter (also played by Davidtz). This story manages to be heartwarming and engaging, as does Andrew's struggle to find his identity. But all of these emotions partially paint over the plot's more intriguing implications. By the second half of the film, when Asimov's grander concepts begin to emerge, Kazan and Columbus too often choose obvious tearjerking over any true exploration. The film's vision of the future is drawn in similar fashion to the plot: sleekly beautiful but not fully thought out or explained...
Front-runners, as ever, are the Communists, who look set to remain the largest bloc in the legislature with up to 25 percent of the vote. But given that Sunday's vote is a warm-up for next July's presidential election, the more interesting battle is for second place. When former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov joined forces earlier this year to create the Fatherland-All Russia bloc, they looked like an unbeatable combination to win both the Duma and the presidency. But public enthusiasm for the war in Chechnya has propelled neophyte prime minister...