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JERUSALEM: Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu's political future awaits a Friday count of some 154,000 absentee ballots. With 99.9 percent of the vote counted, Netanyahu maintains a razor-thin lead of a few thousand votes over Prime Minister Shimon Peres. In an election many saw as a referendum on the country's peace process, Israel appears almost evenly divided. An unofficial count shows Netanyahu with 50.3 percent of the vote to 49.7 percent for Peres. Israel's course toward peace has been pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, assassinated last November. Netanyahu...
After a boisterous campaign that stirred passions in Canadians from all provinces, Quebec chose to remain part of Canada, voting 50.6% against secession and 49.4% for it in a special plebiscite. The razor-thin margin consisted of just 52,448 votes out of almost 5 million cast; the 93.4% turnout was a record. One day later, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, announced that he would resign before year's end. But charismatic Quebec politician Lucien Bouchard insisted that the cause of secession is not dead: "The next time will be the right...
...unapologetic, saying he just likes to do the right thing and "let the chips fall where they may.'' His supporters tout James as the future of American politics, and are advising Republicans nationwide to take note. But others say James is an anomaly. He was elected by a razor-thin margin--about 11,000 votes out of almost 1.2 million cast--in large part due to the weakness of the scandal-plagued Democratic incumbent. It will be three more interesting years before the state's voters decide whether the old days should be left behind...
...blood found on a sock inO.J. Simpson's bedroom and on a gate at the murder scene planted by police? Witnesses for the O.J. Simpson defense can't agree on the razor-thin strand of evidence that might support such a claim. Monday, Fredric Rieders, a forensic toxicologist, testified that the blood apparently contained EDTA, a chemical preservative used in crime analysis, which suggested that the blood could have been planted by someone with access to samples from the victims and the defendant. Today, FBI Special Agent Roger Martz -- who performed the analysis of the blood -- said Rieders essentially misrepresented...
...would have difficulty voting for any bill that doesn't include abortion as a benefit. Thirty-five others responded by making public a threat to oppose any bill that does. An awful possibility hovered before the Democratic congressional leadership: however they chose, the abortion issue might cost them the razor-thin margin by which any health plan would be expected to pass Congress. Politically at least, they would be damned if they did and damned if they didn...