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Since that is his criterion for excellence in government, I hope he will remember to review the résumés of drug dealers, lotto winners, sitcom stars, and successful contestants from Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
What did the contestants have to do?
The most charming/egregious case is a contest among four couples, selected by a Boston radio station from among hundreds of contestants, to conceive the "millennium baby" in separate rooms of the same hotel today.
Today's Papers thinks this cries out for a new parlor game: Two random media businesses are named and contestants vie to connect them corporately in the fewest steps.
As part of the mid-September festival at this shrine, there is a spectacular tournament of archery on horseback (yabusame), in which contestants dressed in the costume of Kamakura-period huntsmen must hit a series of three small wooden targets as they come down a narrow course at full gallop.