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Hobeika's near victory turned into a rout of his own forces. On Thursday he fled to Paris with his wife and son. Geagea, who last March had challenged Gemayel for leadership of the Phalange Party, allied himself with the President against pro-Syrian Muslim fighters...
...must it be when a party's best candidate for the presidency is into his third year of retirement - and quit politics after a humiliating rout in the last presidential race? Lionel Jospin, 67, the former French Prime Minister who lost the 2002 presidential battle in the first round, has emerged as the favorite to lead the 2007 challenge for the presidency by France's Socialist Party (PS). That result comes after two leading PS contenders tangled. Laurent Fabius, 58, was ousted as the party's second-in-command last week in a move led by PS first secretary Fran...
...week later, Harvard won its first home game of the season, a 4-0 rout of Cornell. The entire Crimson offense came to life, with four different players netting goals...
...Radcliffe varsity four, which featured four rowers (Bates, senior Kristin Hicks, senior Ame Bothwell, and sophomore Lesley Burkett) and the coxswain (sophomore Kate Walro) of the eight fared better, finishing in 7:33.2 en route to a rout of both the Princeton “A” boat (7:46.4) and “B” boat...
...compromise candidate to oppose the German. Ratzinger as Pope, one source told Zizola, would amount to a "symbolic and institutional registering of the defeat? of the reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi, who succeeded Martini in Milan, may be the man to stave off a Ratzinger rout in the early balloting. He is seen as a largely conciliatory figure who can talk with both the progressives and traditionalists. Doubts remain, however, about whether Tettamanzi has the mojo to make a formidable pope. The 71-year-old has weak foreign-language skills, and is seen as a somewhat provincial...