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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy lost a squeaker of an election last week to Romano Prodi. The defeat ends the conservative Berlusconi's five-year rule--Italy's longest since World War II--which was peppered with his offhand, sometimes offensive remarks. Here's a look at some of the most memorable...
...Gym.That, along with the Tigers’ turnaround, provides two huge story lines heading into this Saturday night affair.Count me among the believers that Princeton’s 3-1 mark was a function of the favorable early season schedule for at least one more week. Dartmouth wins a squeaker. COLUMBIA (8-11, 1-5) AT BROWN (6-13, 2-4)The Bears have been surprisingly strong at home in league play, while the Lions have stunk it up pretty much in all venues.Brown coach Glen Miller is quite good at getting the most out of the talent...
...fence, and the betting is that anywhere from 5 to 10 Democrats will abandon ship and vote with the Republicans. While not as dramatic a Republican win as the 78-22 blowout in favor of Chief Justice John Roberts last fall, the Alito vote won't be the squeaker Democrats were predicting during his hearings earlier this month...
...opportunity to get around the House's rigid procedures and force it to take up the measure, which probably could never have got to the floor through the usual process of committee deliberation. When House Speaker Dennis Hastert needed their votes in what turned out to be a squeaker on the budget last month, the lawmakers, led by Castle, extracted a guarantee that the Speaker would bring the stem-cell measure to a vote. That concession marked one of the few instances in which the tightly disciplined House leadership has agreed to allow consideration of a bill that it does...
Don’t let Fordham’s 4-1 record fool you. The Rams’ resume includes shootout wins over I-AA cupcakes Holy Cross and Duquesne, a squeaker over Columbia and an ugly victory against an Albany team that wouldn’t win most schools’ intramural flag football tournament...