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...ELECTED. CHEN SHUI-BIAN, 53, President of Taiwan; by a razor-thin margin, just one day after he was shot in the abdomen while riding in a motorcade. The opposition Nationalist Party, which until the shooting had been narrowly favored to win, called for the election to be annulled and suggested that the assassination attempt may have been a final-hour campaign tactic...
...real race, however, was between Holzapfel and Yale’s Andrew Brennan. Last year, Brennan edged out Holzapfel in the finals for tenth place. But, this time, Holzapfel exacted his revenge by the razor-thin margin of three-tenths of a second, relegating Brennan to ninth...
With that mindset, Harvard sprinted out to an early lead, touching the wall first in five of the first seven races. The advantage would have been more substantial were it not for two razor-thin Navy victories in the 200-meter freestyle and then the 100-meter breaststroke two events later...
BOSTON—As the Harvard women’s basketball team struggled to maintain its razor-thin second-half lead, there could be no doubt in the minds of the Crimson defenders to whom Northeastern would turn for a game-changing open look...
...razor-thin margin made him more committed to running again. Immediately upon losing, he went to look at the voting rolls to see who hadn’t voted, and just started off with the street where he grew up as a child...