Word: unevennesses
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...duty-driven Republican reared in the nation's richest suburb and now in possession of the most majestic and mighty political office in the world. Given the country's suspicions of bigness and power, planted long ago by Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson, it is not at all an uneven contest...
...fact, it was, on every level, Spain, and not just because the country claimed at least 13 gold medals, after winning only four in the past 96 years. The Chinese team was also a consistent surprise, and its women alone were everywhere one looked -- scoring all 10s in the uneven bars, winning an archery shoot-off with bull's-eye after bull's-eye after bull's-eye, even striding off with the 10-km walk. The Unified Team forgot its differences long enough to enjoy one last triumph, and the Americans had good reason to cheer the Dream Team...
...Olympic fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...
Energetic, full of juice, brilliant in flashes but in the long haul a most uneven talent, George Bellows died of appendicitis in 1925 at the age of 42 with a reputation among Americans that was not going to survive...
Even in a sport where champions are tiny, Kim Hwang Suk makes her rivals look like giants. The North Korean is just 4 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs only 68 lbs. On the uneven parallel bars, however, no one stands above her. At the world championships in Indianapolis last September, she scored a perfect 10 to win the event and was called back to the podium twice for bows...