We have five winners in the "What Kids Need to Know" contest.
The "election" is not until early 2008, but the outcome will be known sooner.The contest is already shaping events in Russia, where all political news is now studied through the refractive lens of the presidential succession.
When the whole class wins first prize, they know the contest is a farce.
But everyone knows the contest is really decided the instant the last polls close in Alaska and Hawaii and the final absentee ballots are dropped in the mail.
I want to begin by going back to what I said in my opening yesterday, and this is to remind the court that this is, as the court well knows, a contest action under Section 102.168 of the Florida statutes.
By now you should know our contest rules, but here's a short version if you need a reminder: So, students: Tell us below what you've read, watched or listened to in The Times recently that got your attention, and explain why.
The most recent one is is written as a letter to the new authorities in Libya from a notional "Eastern Europe" (though as readers will know, I contest the use of this label).It is behind the paywall on that site, but here are the key points.
By Calvin Trillin The New Yorker, August 12 , 1985P. 56 ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the Memphis in May International Barbecue Cooking Contest, known as the country's preeminent barbecuing competition.
The Bulwer-Lytton is probably the nation's best known bad-writing contest, but it has rivals in the International Imitation Hemingway Competition and the Faux Faulkner Contest, each of which also announces its winners annually in July.
What matters is that, one summer, Mr. Schwartz served as a general in a sports contest known until recently as "the color war," a three-day, all-out competition that splits the camp into two rival teams: blue and gold.
