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...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls Europe's "last true dictatorship." But first, Milinkevich will challenge Lukashenka in the presidential elections next July. "The situation here is somewhat different [from Ukraine], but the scenarios are similar everywhere when it comes to dictatorships," he told Time. "Dictatorial regimes never admit defeat." If the President is running scared, it doesn't show. Vladimir Konoplev, a prominent Lukashenka ally, says he hasn't even heard of Milinkevich: "The name doesn't ring any bells." Some opposition activists fear that the 58-year-old physicist will be overlooked by voters, too. Pollsters...
...That?s a tall order, even for Schmidt. At Novell he learned first hand just how tough it can be to fend off Microsoft; Novell continues to roll along selling its network products. But that defeat spurred him on to golden success at Google. ?Schmidt knows the danger and the risks,? says Rymer. ?You can learn from your experiences, and he?s been effective at Google...
Since beating then-No. 15 Connecticut on Sept. 22, the Crimson has dropped four games in a row—twice reaching at least one overtime, and another time recording a 1-0 defeat...
...meaningless, since their community is being denied a fair chance to vote down the draft constitution - and they believed their suspicions were confirmed by Sunday's vote in the Shiite-led Iraqi parliament to rewrite the rules in a way that effectively made it impossible for Sunnis to defeat the constitution in the referendum. That change was hastily retracted, Monday, in the face of strong international pressure. But Sunni suspicions persist...
...Jacobs Field and Fenway Park, the Patriots did little to verify that there happened to be a gridiron dynasty worth watching.The San Diego Chargers (2-2) rolled over an injury-riddled New England team by a score of 41-17 yesterday, dealing the Patriots (2-2) their first home defeat since the New York Jets visited Massachusetts on Dec. 22, 2002.A capacity Gillette Stadium crowd—New England’s 119th in a row—began to file out early in the fourth quarter, a sight as unfamiliar in Foxborough as a missed Adam Vinatieri field...