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...beneficiary of Abbas's troubles, of course, is Yasser Arafat. He reportedly fumed at having to watch the Aqaba summit on TV from Ramallah, the White House having done its best to use President Bush's first-ever Middle East trip to crown Abbas as the new national leader of the Palestinians and consign Arafat to the dustbin of history. Bush pulled no punches during his stay in Egypt, telling a local TV network that "it's impossible to achieve peace with Chairman Arafat." Arafat's objective, by contrast, is to prove that peace is impossible without him. Washington...
Radcliffe’s first varsity, meanwhile, proved to be the best of the bunch by far, and a fifth-place finish by the second varsity and a sixth-place finish by the varsity four gave Radcliffe just enough points to take home the overall team crown...
Washington did not relinquish its hold on the team crown easily either. The Huskies raced well enough in the second varsity and varsity hour events to control their own destiny for the NCAA title in the first varsity event. In fact, Radcliffe had to finish two spots ahead of Washington to win it all. If both Radcliffe and Washington had finished out of the top two spots, Brown would have won the title...
That they did admirably. Washington jumped out to the early lead but faded back behind Stanford and Michigan into fourth place. Radcliffe went forward full speed ahead and won the first varsity NCAA crown...
...Crimson clinched the Ivy crown with a victory over Cornell in conjunction with Brown’s loss to Penn on Feb. 28. However, the drama was yet to end, as a tight game against Columbia the following night almost made for an embarrassing trophy ceremony...