Word: conquests
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...geopolitical present tense (or tense present), and the Holy City appeared to be all that stood between the secular, terrestrial powers represented by Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and an agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed...
Sophomore Fleur Broughton posted the most exciting match of the day, notching a drawn-out triumph over Iva Beli in three sets. Broughton tallied a 6-3 win in the first set, but dropped to Beli by the same score in the second. Broughton's 6-4 conquest in the final set secured her the win in the No. 3 seed...