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...Muth just picked it up and quit making mistakes,” Gordon said. “Alexis was playing well. Her game didn’t drop off, [Muth] just stepped up and put a lot of pressure on Alexis...
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...party's grassroots membership had long been pushing for Labor to quit the unity government on the grounds that it offered no hope for progress toward peace with the Palestinians or of resolving Israel's deepening economic crisis - and also, no hope for the party that had ruled Israel for most of its 54-year history to reclaim the reins of power. After all, it's hard to fight an election against a government in which you're serving as a junior partner. Labor activists have long warned that the party is making itself irrelevant by its failure to articulate...
...base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts curious question mark after the name of foreign minister Shimon Peres. There is considerable speculation in Israel that the former prime minister might choose to quit his own party and remain at Sharon's side as an independent rather than follow ben-Eliezer on a path that, for Peres personally, may end in political oblivion...
...finds himself in a statistical dead heat with McBride, a former Marine with a Bronze Star and a folksy manner who gave up a student deferment to go to Vietnam. Last year, when he found himself "screaming at the TV set, frustrated" at where the state was headed, McBride quit his post as managing partner of Holland & Knight, which he had built into the fifth largest law firm in the U.S. (his wife was once head of Bank of America in Florida), and launched his long-shot bid for Governor. McBride dresses like Columbo and campaigns like the late Governor...