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After its victory over Ivy League rival Princeton, the Crimson (10-6, 4-2 Ivy) was set to play four nationally ranked teams in two weeks. The team was not going to be allowed to coast into the NCAA Tournament...
...stinging rebuke of Gov. George W. Bush's tax-cut plan today, calling it a redistribution of wealth that amounted to 'class warfare on behalf of billionaires.'" Bush story from Portland goes second and ledes like the gov's own: "Gov. George W. Bush swept up the West Coast today...
...familiar story: The tyrant dictator calls elections thinking they'll legitimize his rule. The people vote him out, so he tries to steal the result. And the masses rise up and toss him in the trash can of history. But then the Ivory Coast story starts to diverge a little from the Yugoslavian one. The capital of the West African nation, Abidjan, was seized by street violence again Thursday despite a popular victory on the streets the previous day, in which General Robert Gueï was forced to flee the country in the face of massive demonstrations just days after...
...Unlike Yugoslavia, where the opposition had thrown its support behind a single candidate, two of the Ivory Coast's largest opposition parties had been banned from participating in the election, and their supporters had boycotted the poll. Opposition leaders say the turnout in Sunday's election was as low as 5 percent of the electorate. The popular opposition leader Alassane Ouattara is leading calls for a new poll. An attempt by former president Henri Konan Bédié to exclude Outtara from the last election had prompted General Gueï's coup, but the general had then held...
...passed the fifth Monday. So in the dorms the students screamed, the first-years cried and the slackers dreamed. Not a happy word was spoken. Our spirits all were broken. And those students I despised most, whose easy schedules made them boast, were so glad that they chose to coast the day midterms arrived...