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...Minister since 1997, was facing a crisis. The House of Commons was to vote on two measures, both of which, it was thought, might see his government defeated, despite the Labour Party's thumping majority in the lower chamber. Meanwhile, Gordon Brown, Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, partner, rival and anointed successor, was rumbling away, giving speeches that were not even barely concealed as the outline of the themes of his own future premiership. And Blair's deeply unpopular adventure in support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was once more winning the sort of headlines that have plagued...
...number of blank votes would be divided among the 33 candidates on the basis of the percentage of the counted vote accrued by each. That formula pushed Mr. Preval, who even by the CEP's count had won more than four times the number of votes of his nearest rival, over the 50 percent mark, and prompted a massive celebration by hundreds of thousands of supporters who had taken to the streets in protest to defend their vote...
...season sweep—and for revenge. Breaking the squad’s three-game losing steak with two wins will give it both.The Crimson will look to take the season series from Brown (7-14, 3-5 Ivy) tonight and avenge its first Ivy loss by defeating Ivy rival Yale (13-10, 5-3) on Saturday.While Brown does not appear much of a challenge—the Crimson handled the Bears by 14 in last month in Providence—Harvard is not taking any squad lightly, especially in light of its second three-game losing streak...
...number of blank votes would be divided between the 33 candidates on the basis of the percentage of the counted vote accrued by each. That formula pushed Mr. Preval - who even by the CEP's count had won more than four times the number of votes of his nearest rival - over the 50 percent mark, and prompted a massive celebration by hundreds of thousands of supporters had taken to the streets in protest to defend their vote...
...appears to have been devoid of snow days except for the three days in 1978—officials at these schools said their universities on average close down due to inclement weather anywhere from once a year to once every couple years. Some of Harvard’s biggest rival schools also shut down more frequently. Princeton just last year experienced one snow day and one delayed arrival, a school official said. An official at Yale guessed there has been no more than one snow day in the past decade...