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Despite a sound defeat on home ice in its last game against Harvard, the Dutchmen look to be tougher competition this time around. Union is coming into the weekend with two consecutive victories, including an 11-2 trouncing of Clarkson. Dutchmen forward Mario Valery-Trabucco, who is third on the team in goals and fifth in assists, had a hattrick in the game. He was shut out in the first contest against Harvard...
...defeat their Ivy League rivals, both sides also know that they will have to rely on their training and improvements if they hope to pull out another double victory...
...become the country's newest democratically elected President. A complete but uncertified count Feb. 10 gave Yanukovych a lead of 3.5 percentage points over his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in a presidential race that international observers dubbed "an impressive display of democratic elections." Tymoshenko has refused to concede defeat, though, and her team says it may launch a legal challenge to the result. Few analysts give her much hope of success...
...worked on numerous campaigns for the Republican Party in the U.S., Yanukovych has learned to speak Ukrainian and replaced rambling, incoherent monologues with short, prepared sound bites. "We shouldn't look for enemies in our country," he said after proclaiming victory on election night. "We should unite and defeat poverty, irresponsibility and corruption...
...stump, but since his arrest, she has come to foreground. A day after his arrest, she tearfully met with the media. "Why is he treated like this?" she asked tearfully. "He is a war hero, and now he is in jail." Fonseka's 40-year career culminated in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May 2009, which brought to an end the bloody separatist war of more than 2½ decades...