Flipping hell: red tape wrecks pancake race
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A traditional Shrove Tuesday pancake race in Britain was tossed off the menu due to overbearing health and safety regulations, newspapers reported.
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The fast-food leader is paying the price for its unhealthy ways, but it just isn't fair.
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The Republican presidential race has gone from merely unpredictable to chaotic.
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The onetime GOP frontrunner's strategy of sitting out the early primaries now appears to have big risks
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Michael Phelps surely didn't bargain for this. His quest to win eight gold medals is over, doomed by America's worst showing in the 400-meter freestyle relay. Gary Hall Jr. is ticked off. And now comes the toughest race of all against Ian Thorpe. Not exactly what Phelps had in mind when he decided to challenge Mark Spitz.
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Twelve years ago, in my first job as a reporter, I witnessed a real election catastrophe. Voters rejected Republicans at every level of government.
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Tens of millions of dollars pouring into Olympic bid campaigns. PR companies, lobbyists and spin doctors working frantically. Rumors of dirty tricks swirling behind the scenes.
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When competing sides fall out of balance on shows such as &quot;The Apprentice&quot; or &quot;Survivor,&quot; they usually mix up the teams to even things out.
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Adrian Fernandez beat Bryan Herta by 0.0716 of a second at the Delphi Indy 300 yesterday in Joliet, Ill., for his second victory in a month, but it was overshadowed by a scary crash late in the race that sent Buddy Rice&#39;s car skidding upside down along
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Stock car racing was built by those trying to beat the system.
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I had dinner recently with a well-known pollster who had often worked for Republicans. He told me that when he went to see &quot;Fahrenheit 9/11&quot; he got so distraught he twice had to go out in the lobby and pace during the movie.
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The onetime GOP front-runner's strategy of sitting out the early primaries now appears to have big risks
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It&#39;s the scam of the 2004 presidential campaign. The emergence of new political groups this election cycle -- such as the Republican-funded Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Democratic-bankrolled America
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The unthinkable happens: Kobayashi loses the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. The belt is back in America!
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Thirty minutes until the start of the Vermont City Marathon, and I still couldn't activate one of my gadgets for tracking speed and distance. Fifteen minutes. Five. And the starting horn went off. I gave up fiddling to focus on my race.
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THEY HOPED - MAYBE they prayed â-or this, but stock-car racingâs officials could not have realistically expected the mad, mad, mad scramble that has evolved in the battle for the 2004 title.
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As elections get tighter and more complicated, it's inevitable that one of them will be so thoroughly botched it'll have to be done over. It's time to start thinking about how. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.