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...SWORN IN. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE, 57, Democrat; as Governor of Washington; after an agonizingly close contest in which her opponent, Republican Dino Rossi, won the initial vote and a subsequent machine recount, only to lose to Gregoire by 129 votes in a hand recount; in Olympia. Irate Republicans refused to applaud at the ceremony, and Rossi has launched a court challenge, seeking a new election...
Students, though, haven’t sworn off a Sunday schmear...
...hand of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who opposed Yushchenko's election, in the sudden price increase. "The empire strikes back," says political analyst Konstantin Bondarenko, "but Putin does it by proxy to show Ukraine its place." The Kremlin had no comment. Yushchenko, who's expected to be sworn in later this month, has also avoided the issue, but he did reiterate his pledge to create a modern free-market economy, even as Ukrainians saw their gas prices soar. "If this country is governed by honest people and the government can survive, people will feel the effects of the economic development...
...better to be sworn in than sworn...
...unbubbled ovals After Mayor Dick Murphy beat write-in candidate Donna Frye by 2,108 votes, a recount turned up 5,547 ballots that had been rejected because voters who wrote in her name failed to fill in the oval next to it. As Murphy, a Republican, was sworn in for a second term last month, Frye told TIME, "I doubt I'll be going gently into that good night...