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...really want to? Sure, it would be nice to know that 6 11 12 21 39 47 will win the lottery jackpot next week (and if that combination does come up next week, remember: you saw it here first). Yes, fans may pray with deep sincerity for Arsenal to defeat Manchester United 3-0 when they meet Feb. 25. But would God really care enough about a soccer match to take the trouble to angle the ball just so off 44 toes hundreds of times in order to bring such a result? And what satisfaction would there be in knowing...
...this time around, the Crimson will expect a more favorable result than last year's 79-66 defeat at Penn. This year's edition is far better prepared to utilize 10 players on the floor than any other team of recent memory. Even more encouraging is that Melissa Johnson is finally showing signs of regaining the dominance she showcased in the first half of the Harvard-Penn game immediately before sustaining her knee injury. Into the newly renovated Palestra, the Crimson will bring a revitalized team...
Despite outshooting its opponents by a ratio of nearly two-to-one, the Crimson has only managed to convincingly defeat teams like Yale and Boston College...
...Wahid's grip on power, then, was predicated on playing the different power centers off against one another. The scale of his defeat Thursday suggests the strategy may have backfired: On one side of the power equation, he had antagonized the generals by attempting to diminish the power they'd traditionally wielded and accepting independence for East Timor. On the other, he had made enemies of the business and political elite of the Suharto era by pressing corruption charges against the former dictator and his family. To Megawati's allies, he was increasingly being seen as a dangerous and unstable...
...Nobody really knows because Barak doesn't confide in anyone. They simply say he functions best when his back is against the wall. But realistically, his main objective may be to ensure that the margin of his defeat is small, so that he has a credible claim to continue leading the Labor party. If voting goes according to the opinion polls, he'll lose by the largest margin ever for an incumbent prime minister, which would almost certainly cost him the party leadership. If he loses by a margin that leaves him a credible candidate, he could then join Sharon...