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Just a week after sweeping both the men’s and women’s track and field competition at the Battle of Beantown, both Harvard track teams were left playing second fiddle to home team and Ivy League rival Princeton this Saturday at the annual HYP Meet...
...Caputo (184) finished off his home season strong with a 6-0 defeat of his opponent. After losing the past few times they have met, Caputo finally bested his rival, No. 15 David Craig...
Five years ago, Viktor Yanukovych was the villain who sparked Ukraine's Orange Revolution. Now he is set to become the country's newest democratically elected President. A complete but uncertified count Feb. 10 gave Yanukovych a lead of 3.5 percentage points over his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in a presidential race that international observers dubbed "an impressive display of democratic elections." Tymoshenko has refused to concede defeat, though, and her team says it may launch a legal challenge to the result. Few analysts give her much hope of success...
...legend that many Iranians hold as truth, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini on his deathbed joined the hands of his chief disciples, Ali Khamenei - who would become Supreme Leader - and Ali Akbar Rafsanjani - the cleric who is now Khamenei's most powerful rival - and warned that if the two should ever be divided, the Islamic Republic would fall. Since the controversial presidential election in June, the growing rift between the two men has been playing out not only on the streets but also, just as important, behind closed doors in a game of chess that their adherents follow but the moves...
...University of Miami. "But if Chinchilla turns out to be the leader she shows promise of being, she can get that back." As she declared victory last Sunday night, Feb. 7, in the capital, San José, with 47% of the vote vs. 25% for her main center-left rival, Otton Solis, Chinchilla announced, "We are making history." But she also pledged to "make decisions, not avoid or postpone them." (See a story about Oscar Arias' win of the Nobel Peace Prize...