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However, that Bulldog team and the 2000 iteration are very different. Yale did this mostly on the strength of a very strong senior class, one that the Crimson and the rest of the region no longer have to contend with...
...Revolutions usually involve demolishing and replacing the old state structure, but what occurred last week in Yugoslavia was something different - a popular uprising to force Milosevic to comply with his own constitution. And that?s left Kostunica forced to contend with the fact that, under that constitution, Milosevic still enjoys substantial political power by virtue of his dominant position in both the federal parliament and the in the all-important government of Serbia. Not only that, but plans to hold elections for the Serbian parliament in December may further narrow his own political base. Kostunica is the leader...
Having moved past Cornell in the league standings, Harvard is in as good a position as ever to contend for its first Ivy title since...
...nonpartisan Washington group. The percentage grew as Texas families, forced off cash assistance by new welfare laws, were not told that their children still qualified for Medicaid. Nevertheless, Bush put an emphasis on tax cuts rather than spending to expand eligibility and break down barriers to enrollment. Democrats contend that the Governor showed his priorities when he opened the 1999 legislative session by declaring a $45 million tax-relief bill for oil-stripper wells to be an "emergency...
...house in Paris covered with vines" that the storybook Madeline kept the peace - but she didn't have to contend with two peoples who'd been at each other's throats for a half-century. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright managed to coax Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat into the same room for crisis talks in Paris on Wednesday, after Arafat had initially demanded an international inquiry into the recent wave of violence as his price. But back home, the killings continued, with fierce battles raging in Gaza and the West Bank claiming...