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...Sicilians won't vote for someone who is just a symbol." In last month's national elections, won narrowly by the center-left's Romano Prodi, Sicily sided with the center-right. Last week, the final polls allowed to be published before the regional showdown showed Cuffaro with a five-point advantage. Orazio Marra, a Palermo taxi driver, will vote for the incumbent, opting for his political experience and reserving judgment on the Mafia ties until the trial is over. "We have other problems to worry about," he said. "Borsellino seems like a sheep surrounded by wolves." Still, few deny...
...second-place Boston College. Senior Vincent Porter shared time with captain Clay Johnson at the skipper position in A-division’s boat while senior Ruth Schlitz handled crew duties. The B-division saw sophomore skipper Kyle Kovacs and freshman crew Jon Garrity take first-place by a five-point margin over Georgetown, which faltered a bit in A-division on its way to an eighth-place finish. South Florida, St. Mary’s, and Tufts rounded out the top five, while Dartmouth and Boston University took sixth and seventh places, respectively. GEORGE MORRIS TROPHYThe Crimson sent...
...musical chairs is just the first of a two-act makeover. Friends and colleagues of Bolten told TIME about an informal, five-point "recovery plan" for Bush that is aimed at pushing him up slightly in opinion polls and reassuring Republican activists, whose disaffection could cost him dearly in November. The White House has no visions of expanding the G.O.P.'s position in the midterms; the mission is just to hold on to control of Congress by playing to the base. Here is the Bolten plan...
...Riding their momentum, the Warriors then opened a five-point lead in game four...
...Tonight] we were just trying to feel like a team, to act like a team.” But as the first game got underway, it looked as though last night’s performance might be just more of the same. Harvard found itself in a five-point hole after an MIT ace, but managed to stay close on two timely kills from co-captain Seamus McKiernan. By the time the Crimson took a 24-23 lead—its first of the game—on a McKiernan kill, the opening frame seemed firmly in its grasp. Harvard?...