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...Legislative Yuan's 113 seats, soundly defeating Chen's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which took 27. The win also gives momentum to KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou over DPP rival Frank Hsieh in the March 22 vote. Chen Shui-bian called it the worst setback in the history of the DPP, and took responsibility by resigning as the party's chairman...
This week's setback could, by the same token, make Chavez a smarter and more effective mediator in the long run. Many still believe that his leftist bona fides make him the right man to persuade the guerrillas to release hostages and the government to free hundreds of jailed rebels. All that could in turn help end a war that has killed almost 40,000 people, displaced millions more and drawn the U.S., albeit indirectly, into the conflict with some $1 billion a year in anti-drug...
...founder, Robert Lyles III, a recent graduate of Kenyon College, had planned to conduct research on the ship that would prove to investors the promise of the technique he had developed for treating the ballast water taken on by ships. And no ship could mean no funding. The sudden setback might have sunk Tandem. But surprisingly, it set the company on an unexpected new course--skin care...
South Korea's leading presidential candidate, Lee Myung Bak, averted a setback that could have cost him the upcoming election when government prosecutors cleared him of fraud accusations in connection with a 2001 financial scam involving a former business partner...
...really helped having played with all those girls for a year, we all just kind of clicked, and it made for a really good season,” Moretzsohn says.Now, Moretzsohn and her teammates have turned their attention to the upcoming season. Though she suffered a brief setback in June when she broke her foot, she was back on the court by August, and has spent the last three months preparing to defend Harvard’s Ivy title.Last year’s successful campaign has only served to raise the bar for Moretzsohn and the rest of the squad...