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...cushy jobs. Aziz Dweik, the new Hamas speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, tried to dismiss Ibrahim Khraisheh from his position as the Council's secretary-general. According to witnesses, 20 gunmen ringed the Council building and demanded that Hamas give Fatah's Khraisheh back his post, despite his defeat in the elections. Eventually the gunmen backed off. In its last days in power, Fatah placed dozens more militiamen in key security jobs. It isn't just loss of power that irks. According to Hamas officials involved with the investigations, the Islamic group has been compiling fat files on corrupt...
...that we hung with them for three quarters was good,” senior 2M-0 Mollie Mehaffey said. “Obviously, though, we wanted to keep up with them [for] 28 minutes.”The nine-goal differential was the largest for the Crimson in a defeat this season, but it wasn’t because of lack of effort on Harvard’s part.“Our intensity level was the highest it had been all season,” Gardner said. “After the game, even the refs, who had seen...
Sophomore Brian Wan fell behind early in the No. 3 match, but he battled back to defeat his opponent...
...Jenny Greene ’88. Papadakis finished the first round of competition in second place behind Brown’s Jessica Larson, trailing 254.15 to 252.75 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. In the second round, however, she tallied 249.65 points to defeat Larson by a small margin. Larson finished second with 498.05 points. On the second day of competition, Papadakis finished 10th in the 3-meter diving competition, which was won by Kristin Caiazzo of Pittsburg, Pa. With the victory, Papadakis automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships, which will take place March 16-18 in Athens...
...process and taken significant steps to normalize relations. What's more, India's Hindu right wing, which rose to prominence by stoking sectarian hatred and held power from 1997 to 2004 under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is in disarray. The party has yet to recover from its election defeat two years ago and the round of bitter infighting that followed...