Word: winner
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Texas cannot be discounted by either party. Texas has voted for the winner of 12 of the last 13 elections, including a streak of four straight. But Bush, banking on his manufactured nativity, assumes that he will win the largest state in the South without any problem...
...Soviet economy, his program has in fact further centralized decision making. The idea is to keep those decisions out of the hands of conservative regional officials. While George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is now available, most of the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Soviet novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize, are still banned. Glasnost, it is clear, can go only so far without provoking retrogressive reaction. For that reason, Sergei Grigoryants, editor of a dissident journal named Glasnost, was jailed for a week earlier this month. When he was released, he discovered that the house from which...
November 14, 1987: The Harvard football team defeats Penn, 31-14, and improves its league record to 5-1. The Crimson gets set to meet Yale in The Game. Only this Game will be THE GAME. The winner will carry home the Ivy League championship trophy...
Playing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the men's soccer team manages to get past the University of Connecticut, 1-0, even though the game is played in front of 8000 viscious Huskie partisans in Storrs, Conn. David Kramer scores the game-winner...
What finally opened last week was two musicals lumped together, one compellingly written and overpoweringly performed, the other so ditzily conceived and garishly staged that it deflates the first. The scenes between Carrie (Linzi Hateley, 17) and her mother (Betty Buckley, a 1983 Tony winner for Cats) crackle with longing. The daughter is love starved and so innocent that she does not know what is happening when she menstruates in the high school shower. Her mother is aquiver with barely suppressed sexuality, yet ablaze with guilty memory. The conflict between the girl's aching to be normal and her mother...