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...Waller: Yes. The interesting thing, of course, about this kind of margin is that it would have been enough to maintain a filibuster, if [Senator Edward] Kennedy had gathered the support to forge ahead and [Democrat Senate leader Tom] Daschle had welcomed the idea. There's no appetite here for a hard fight. What we've seen from all this is that Democrats just aren't as good at guerrilla legislating as the Republicans are. The Dems are out of shape - they haven't had to do this for eight years, after...
...margin was not as slim last weekend--the Harvard men's swimming and diving team (4-0, 4-0 Ivy) handed Brown a 181-119 defeat on Saturday. Although the competition started off slowly, the Crimson went on to capture eight out of nine events in the second half, securing yet another win for its undefeated season...
With the mile and two-mile relay events left to go, Harvard led Cornell by a slim 52-50 margin, but the Crimson had every reason to expect that its Ivy-best mile relay team would come through...
...Nobody really knows because Barak doesn't confide in anyone. They simply say he functions best when his back is against the wall. But realistically, his main objective may be to ensure that the margin of his defeat is small, so that he has a credible claim to continue leading the Labor party. If voting goes according to the opinion polls, he'll lose by the largest margin ever for an incumbent prime minister, which would almost certainly cost him the party leadership. If he loses by a margin that leaves him a credible candidate, he could then join Sharon...
...William Hague has not caught the country's imagination. They've got some pet issues, such as rising crime and opposition to Britain adopting Euro. But the government is not giving them very much of a target. There may be a lower turnout in this election, and Blair's margin of victory may be smaller in light of creeping disillusion among many voters who voted him in last time, but things are still well enough in Britain to give Blair a comfortable victory...