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...victory that must be carefully tended to avoid defeat. Now that it faces a breathing opposition, Labour has to resolve the internal ambiguities that Blair was able to blur, like the tension between cutting poverty and cutting taxes. The good news for Labour is that it has a crop of competent young Ministers who want to try. The ultimate test for Blair's legacy is whether Labour can prosper without him. Britain may find out soon...
...entire season. But after a loss to Princeton two weeks ago followed by a slide to a No. 2 ranking, the Black and White finds itself in a familiar place going into sprints—as the underdog.Yet, the results speak otherwise. After beating Princeton twice this season and defeating Wisconsin at the Knecht Cup, Radcliffe comes into Sprints with a confidence it can beat the best. The weekend provides an excellent opportunity to capitlize on these skills.“Last year, there were no expectations,” lightweight co-captain Ashley Antony said...
...Before the game against the Big Green, the squad needed a number of games to go a certain way: Hofstra to beat Delaware, Johns Hopkins to defeat Loyola, Georgetown over Penn State, Syracuse over Colgate, Ohio State’s to beat Army, and Albany to defeat Stony Brook...
...DIED. Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted 12 days earlier by his brother Pravin, who reportedly told police he was tired of being ignored by his powerful sibling; in Bombay. After the BJP's surprise defeat in the 2004 general elections, Mahajan was seen as the great hope to revive the party; his death leaves India's struggling opposition in further disarray. Mahajan, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was "a charismatic and youthful leader, full of promise and energy." Pravin has been charged with murder and is awaiting...
...Happy now?" SILVIO BERLUSCONI, outgoing Prime Minister of Italy, to the left-wing paper L'Unita after resigning and paving the way for Romano Prodi, the center-left leader, to form a new government. Berlusconi held out for three weeks after Italy's election before conceding defeat...