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...behind eventual winner Methodist College. Freshman Michael Shore led Harvard with a No. 53 finish out of the 127 players present, carding rounds of 80, 83, and 72 on the par-72 layout. Shore continued to build on his solid fall, when he finished second on the team in stroke average. “Being a freshman, it’s kind of hard to crack into the lineup sometimes,” senior D.J. Hynes said, “and he’s really stepped in and helped us out.” Hynes himself was the team?...
...Ariel Sharon with defectors - critics say "opportunists"- from Likud and Labor. And it took an iron-fisted patriarch like Sharon to hold this band of feisty Napoleons together. Party insiders admit that if Sharon were leading the party instead of lying in a coma after a January 4 stroke, Kadima would have fared far better. Now, Kadima will be at the mercy of many partners. Even as the votes were still being counted, Olmert?s advisers last night say they were swamped by calls from prospective coalition allies wanting in on the deal...
...probably dispense some bitter medicine: a pullout of some Jewish settlements inside the Palestinian territories in exchange for permanent borders. Political analysts say Olmert - who inherited both the self-described centrist Kadima party and its main platform of "disengagement" from Ariel Sharon, still in a coma after a massive stroke last January - has tapped into a new pragmatism among Israeli voters. Co-existing with the Palestinians, especially with a government next door now run by Hamas, now seems an impossibility to most of them. A vote for Kadima, says columnist Sima Kadmon of Yedioth Ahronoth, is nothing less than...
...aftermath of Ariel Sharon's massive stroke and sudden exit from politics, the rise of this gruff right-winger has become the most intriguing aspect of an otherwise lackluster electoral campaign. His plan is controversial not only for some Israelis who see it as akin to ethnic cleansing, but also, not surprisingly, among the Arabs. However much Israeli Arabs complain about being treated as second-class citizens, most of them say they prefer living in Israel to being submerged inside the West Bank?s poverty and turmoil...
...have yet to convince my daughters to close a door." I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation. I suspect like most parents won't admit, I don't think I have a lot of stroke in the way they think...