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...Committee of Fatah, the most powerful Palestinian party--seemed likely to roll up a big victory in the Jan. 9 election for Palestinian President. But last week Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his part in deadly shooting attacks early in the four-year intifadeh, announced his candidacy for the job too. Barghouti, a former moderate who now represents the radical wing of Fatah, has much greater support among ordinary Palestinians than the more moderate--and more aloof--Abbas does. At 45, Barghouti also has the backing of younger Fatah leaders...
...seems that Martinez has had the last laugh, as he has decided to accept the Mets’ offer of a four-year contract of around $50 million, as he apparently strung the Red Sox into believing he would accept their offer if they just negotiated for long enough...
Lately, all this compassion has been getting harder to stomach. Over the next decade, financial barriers will keep an estimated 4 million qualified high school grads from receiving four-year college degrees and will stop 2 million of them from attending college altogether. These numbers may be even higher if already exorbitant tuition fees continue to climb...
...crazy as it seems, the football team may be better next year. The Ivy League champion Crimson is coming off what could plausibly be described as the best four-year run in Harvard history...
During captain Ryan Fitzpatrick’s four-year run at quarterback (splitting time with Neil Rose ’02-’03 during his first two seasons), Tim Murphy’s team only lost six games. With the graduation of first-team All-Ivy performers Fitzpatrick, wide receiver Brian Edwards, linebackers Bobby Everett and Sean Tracy and offensive tackle Brian Lapham, many observers would assume that Murphy may have trouble filling in at some key positions next season...