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...flurry about who would be at the helm for the Quakers, in the end it didn’t really make a difference who started or who played. The Crimson defense overshadowed its league-leading Penn counterpart, holding the Quakers out of the end zone until the last minutes of the game...
...warnings of turmoil on Election Day, most people were on their best behavior. Even at war, there was civility. In New Mexico a law student policing the polls for the Democrats lent her cell phone to her Republican counterpart. In Merrimack, N.H., volunteers from MoveOn.org passed out hot cocoa to activists holding signs outside the polling place--Republicans and Democrats alike. "We might be a battleground state," said voter-protection volunteer Chris L'Estrange in Des Moines, Iowa, "but there's not much of a battle." Florida state troopers suspended safety checkpoints for the day to avoid any accusations...
Fitzpatrick’s counterpart, Pat McDermott, may not even get the chance to run on the field with his team. The Philadelphia Daily News reported that the Penn signal caller injured his non-throwing shoulder in the Quaker’s victory over Princeton last weekend and is questionable for tomorrow...
...Although America's relations with China are as comfortable as they've been in decades, President George W. Bush will have plenty to discuss with his counterpart, Hu Jintao. Yet the first thing he'll want to do is take stock of Hu himself?much as Bush searched for friendship in Vladimir Putin's eyes at their first meeting, in Ljubljana in 2001. Hu still hasn't visited the United States since assuming the presidency in 2003, and remains as enigmatic to Americans as he does to his own people. He has made three trips to Eastern and Western Europe...
...health, and the divergent interest groups in the West Bank and Gaza may limit their ability to cut deals. If anything, their tenure would hold the ring for various younger contenders to stake their own claims. Men such as Gaza security chieftain Mohammed Dahlan and his former West Bank counterpart Jibril Rajoub may have their eyes on the prize. But in its most recent survey of Palestinian political opinion, the widely respected Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found the second-most popular leader after Yasser Arafat to be Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti, of course, is unlikely...