Word: vied
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...clear that the officials in France are making significant efforts to make life as enjoyable as it can be for their citizens. And, as I relearned this summer, in Paris, life is pretty good and, when it’s not, c’est la vie...
...These reflections are occasioned by the arrival from France of La Vie En Rose, a biopic about the gifted, fragile and intermittently insane chanteuse Edith Piaf. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, has given her story a sumptuous production - with the look of an old-fashioned Hollywood musical sob story - as well as a maddeningly fragmented structure. For reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past...
...solidly against the Tigers with Garcia producing half of its scoring. Ultimately, the Crimson could not answer two crucial two-goal spurts by Princeton and lost, 14-8, in the opening round. Harvard rebounded later that same day, however, claiming a victory over Iona to earn the chance to vie for fifth place in the tournament. The squad could not continue its momentum into the following day, losing to Johns Hopkins, 15-7, and finishing sixth overall. Throughout September, the Crimson followed each win with a loss, never recording consecutive victories. The team finally snapped the pattern on the last...
...chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%. This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list.' LAURENS DRILLICH, chairman of Dutch broadcaster BNN, defending a new reality-TV show in which three contestants vie for the kidneys of a terminally ill woman...
...Freeze never had the chance to vie for doorbox space with Harvard’s other publications. Suffering from insufficient funds, the organization was unable to doordrop its winter 2005 magazine, which was instead sold in the Harvard Coop at $2.95 a pop. And this was not only Freeze’s debut issue—it was the single issue the organization has been able to produce to date...