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...something even better last week. In the most impressive electoral sweep by any British party since 1945, Thatcher's Conservatives won 397 seats in the new 650-member Parliament, giving the Prime Minister a thumping majority of 144 seats over the combined opposition parties. The Labor Party, by contrast, captured only 209 seats, while the new Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance picked up 23.* Thatcher becomes the first Conservative Prime Minister in this century to be re-elected to a second term, a feat unmatched even by such illustrious entries on the stairway wall as Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan. Beaming down...
...relying on is not being revealed, but many of the rebels may be changing their mobile phone SIM cards to avoid having their locations triangulated. In the absence of reliable intelligence, the ISF is forced to resort to broad-brush tactics. Earlier last week, Australian forces conducted a sweep around the tiny village of Dare, perched on the western mountain range that rises steeply behind Dili. The soldiers threw up checkpoints on the roads and declared the area a "media-free zone," denying access to journalists, but allowing Timorese to pass...
...senior guard Michele Gage—who was named the Ivy League Player of the Week last week after averaging 22 points and 9.5 rebounds in wins against Penn and Princeton—Colombia complete its program’s first ever weekend road-sweep in program history. If the Crimson is going to leave New York City with another Ancient Eight victory it will need to find a way to stop the Lion’s talented shooters...
...Great Faith-Off Barack Obama won South Carolina's most frequent churchgoers by 3 to 1 over Hillary Clinton. But she came back to capture white Evangelicals in Missouri's primary by a 17-point margin--even as Obama continued to sweep black churchgoers. Clinton has also dominated among Catholics. Quietly but steadily, the Clinton camp has built networks of religious supporters and reintroduced Clinton to them as someone who knows her way around a church picnic. And at the last Democratic debate, she slipped in a religious reference, criticizing immigration laws that would have "criminalized the Good Samaritan...
...pointing out the déjà vu I’m feeling as I watch it put together a season quite similar to its Ivy title run a year ago. Some will say I’m jinxing the team as it looks for its third straight weekend sweep, but I’ll know better: as the defending champions sit in first place in February, the Ancient Eight title is theirs to lose. The 2007 Ivy champs dropped a road contest to Yale in late January before running the table in its remaining league slate a year...