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After an ugly first 20 minutes, Harvard was staked to a slim three-point lead...
...humanitarian military mission in Iraq. Government Gridlock TAIWAN President Chen Shui-bian suffered a setback as his independence-backing Democratic Progressive Party and its ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, failed to take control of the legislature. The Kuomintang-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, retained a slim majority, winning 114 seats in the 225-member parliament. Chen was elected President in March by a wafer-thin majority; his legislative agenda is now likely to remain stalled. Latin Union PERU Twelve South American countries - including Brazil and Argentina, the continent's largest nations - signed a declaration creating the South...
...independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party and its ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union?known collectively as the "green" camp?won only 101 out of 225 seats in the fiercely fought contest. The winner: the "blue" Kuomintang- or KMT-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, managed to retain a slim majority by securing 114 seats, just one more than it previously held. KMT chairman Lien Chan emerged from his office at 8:30 p.m. wearing his biggest smile since losing a close presidential race to Chen in March. As supporters applauded and firecrackers popped, Lien proclaimed: "This is not only...
...percent bump for fiscal year 2006 will mark the fourth straight year of slim payout increases that have generally fallen short of the higher-education inflation rate. Payout increases at the beginning of the decade were far higher, topping out at a 37-percent hike...
Still, Summers said yesterday that slim payout increases in recent years should not be construed as a concerted effort to save for particular future projects...