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...chance to reclaim the governor's office next year in this Republican-controlled state. A recent bellwether for the 2006 elections was the surprisingly tight Congressional race earlier this month for an open House seat in a GOP-dominated southwestern district that the Republican candidate won by a narrow four-point margin. Ohio House Democratic Leader Chris Redfern told TIME before the sentencing: "If he's convicted and doesn't leave office, there certainly will be a drumbeat for his removal. I'm picking out my drumsticks." - with reporting by Christopher Maag/Cleveland
After extensive discussion, the faculty capped the overall number of honors at 60 percent, voted to switch grade point averages from a 15- to a four-point scale, and formally committed to enforcing more vigilant grading practices...
Responding to a question about his now-infamous January remarks on women in science at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Summers outlined a broad four-point agenda to alleviate the pressures faced by faculty members with young families...
There was the four-point loss at home to Cornell, when Harvard let a lead slip away late in the second half. There was the three-point loss in Hanover to Dartmouth, when a last second three pointer from senior guard Kevin Rogus went halfway down before rimming out. There was the two-point loss at Columbia, when Stehle’s desperation tip hit off the side iron. And then there was the one point loss to Yale in New Haven, when three bids at the game-winner in the final thirty seconds went for naught...
...Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade, which persuaded his stronger rival, the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti, to drop out. (The most widely respected Palestinian polling organization, which called the election result to within a percentage point, concluded that had Barghouti run, the imprisoned militant would have beaten Abbas by a four-point margin.) Hamas was the big winner in the recent municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Islamist group stayed out of the presidential election, but they look set to compete in the summer?s legislative poll - and their showing in local elections suggests the Islamists will do very...