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...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...
...atmosphere consumed the league. But what if Penn had found an extra point against Columbia during the league’s opening weekend. Likewise, what if Princeton had fallen to the Lions 49-48 on the final weekend of the season, rather than taking the contest by the same margin. It’s not hard to imagine a few bounces of the ball, and not any change in the level of talent, that could have provided those scenarios...
Harvard took this momentum into the second game, jumping out to an early 8-3 lead. New Haven would make some runs of its own—narrowing the margin to as little as two points—but a 10-3 streak by the Crimson would set them up for an easy 30-21 victory...
...Crimson won by its largest margin in an Ivy League contest since 2003 and biggest over Yale (9-14, 5-5 Ivy) in five years. Harvard (11-13, 6-5) was clearly ready to play against the team that beat the Crimson by one point in New Haven two weeks earlier...
After three long days of competition, Harvard (10-0, 7-0 Ivy) took the Ivy Championship for the first time since 1992 by a 226-point margin over the Tigers, who had to be satisfied with a second-place finish...