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...coma, leaving Olmert to take over as acting government head and party leader. In last month's general election, Kadima won more seats in parliament than any other party, cementing Olmert's claim as Prime Minister--and capping a run of political fortune that has left counterparts numb with disbelief and possibly jealousy. "Winning the lottery is easier to contemplate than Ehud ever becoming Prime Minister," says Yossi Sarid, formerly of the left-wing Meretz Party, who has known Olmert for 30 years. "But being lucky is very important. And to be Prime Minister of Israel, you need a little...
Gotti relatives have reacted mostly with fury and disbelief. "This is 100% ridiculous," Gotti's daughter Angel, 49, told TIME. "I'm not going to say if my father fooled around or not--I don't know. But he did not have a daughter the same age as his granddaughter." That granddaughter, UCLA freshman Victoria Gotti Albano, 18, is more tempered. "If it's true, she's my grandfather's blood, and she's welcome in my family...
...that the former leading goal scorer in the National Hockey League would normally bury into the goal. Instead, Iginla struggled momentarily to control the puck, then banged it once, twice, and again at Russian goaltender Evgeni Nabokov. When the whistle blew, the puck trapped, Iginla stood in frozen disbelief. That missed opportunity in Wednesday's loss to Russia summed up an Olympic tournament of utter frustration for a Canadian team that could neither relax, nor cope with the high-paced European game...
University President Lawrence H. Summers had announced his resignation. Shock waves and disbelief reverberated around campus, but not in Dunster E Entryway. There, a group of eight sipped champagne and celebrated victory. The scene was one of sublime Schadenfreude Tuesday night, as Radcliffe Union of Students Co-Chair Dara F. Goodman ’07 and friends toasted the announcement of Summers’ resignation. Laissez les bons temps rouler! It looked like your average 21st birthday, or a rendezvous between friends to celebrate a job offer. Until you started listening to the party chatter. “Down with...
...genre is conventional, the plot strains at suspension of disbelief, and the cover is bubble-gum pink—yet I couldn’t put the book down...