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LONDON: Britons woke up Friday with Tony Blair and the Labour Party firmly in charge, after dealing the Tories their largest electoral defeat since 1832. Labour, with 43.1 percent of the vote, won 419 seats in Parliament, 179 more seats than all other parties combined. That electoral bloodbath left the Tories with only 165 members and many of its top leaders not only out of power but without even seats in parliament. A defeated John Major announced that he would step down as Conservative Party leader. "When the curtain falls, it's time to get off the stage," he said...
...moving the date of the vote, the opponents of the proposal managed to defeat it by artificially lowering turnout. Even so, more than 70 percent of those voting wanted to give more money to student groups...
...weekend didn't end for Harvard until yesterday when a 6-1 defeat of Dartmouth tied the Crimson with the Big Green for the EITA championship...
...that's how the Harvard women's lacrosse team will think of yesterday's defeat at the hands of Yale. Yes, it was a loss, the Crimson's eighth in its last nine games. However, it was also by far its best game of the season, as Harvard gave No. 13 Yale all it could handle for 60 minutes...
LONDON: Facing the biggest Tory defeat since the fall of Winston Churchill in 1945, Prime Minister John Major pleaded with voters Wednesday to give the Conservatives another chance. "Eighteen years is a long time,? he told one rally, ?and it's easy to overlook achievements.? But after years of bitter infighting among Conservatives, he can?t count on an 11th-hour rescue. "Brits don't elect divided parties," says TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Labour leader Tony Blair was low-key in last minute campaigning. "I ask for your vote because I believe in this country...