Race for awards heating up
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Manny Ramirez, Gary Sheffield or Vladimir Guerrero for MVP? Or is it Mariano Rivera, who has been the backbone of a team with a 4.89 starters&#39; ERA (staff 5.01 since the All-Star break) that has the best record in the league.
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Hollywood's annual Oscar race heats  up this week with a key group of U.S. movie awards and  nominations that is expected to narrow contenders for the  world's top movie awards.
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Take it from the two favorites: There are more than a couple of deserving candidates for this year&#39;s Heisman Memorial Trophy Award.
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The Grammys could take a rare step into the political arena on Sunday if the Dixie Chicks win the coveted album-of-the-year award, as observers of the music industry's biggest honors are predicting.
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The curtain is about to rise on one of the most competitive national seasons for governors races in years, and the money to finance it is already pouring into campaign coffers.
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Al Gore is waging a fierce campaign for recognition and an Oscar statuette for his global warming documentary, while reviving talk that he's pursuing a bigger prize: the presidency.
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The Golden Globe awards on Sunday pose a tantalizing Hollywood question in a wide-open Oscar race: will the black-tie affair anoint a front-runner as it has often done in the past?
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards next week has entered full swing.
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The race to raise funds, hire top staff, and generate media buzz for the 2008 presidential election is already well under way.
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Not to sound like anybody from the Fox racing broadcast, but itâs time to reach up and pull those belts tight - itâs time to go racing.
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The Academy Award voting now begins in earnest.
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Candidates are wooing the union vote more aggressively than anytime in the past 20 years.
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Hollywood's Oscar race for best  film appears to be wide open heading into its final month with  several award watchers on Tuesday giving comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" a slight edge over "The Departed" and "Babel."
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As Hollywood closes in on Oscar night with its attendant round of awards galas, politicians are popping up everywhere but the podium.
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In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards this week has entered full swing.
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With a Saturday night deadline for second-quarter fundraising fast approaching, presidential candidates from both major parties are scrambling to rake in the cash before the clock runs out.
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It takes guts to chase  after an Oscar. It also takes serious money, luck, and insider  experience. Fail to land a nomination, and that cash doesn't  magically come back.