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GROUNDS FOR COMPROMISE Hamas' vistory has complicated the Bush Administration's hopes of using Abbas as a defense against the rise of Islamic radicalism. After Hamas' triumph in the 2006 elections, Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's government was was denied aid by the quartet--the U.S., the European Union, the U.N. and Russia--for refusing to accept Israel's existence, renounce violence and adhere to past peace accords signed by Israel and the Palestinians. And yet Hamas still gained support, largely because Abbas failed to rid himself of the corrupt officials that had turned the Fatah movement into a band...
...head of the liberal Reform Movement (MR), a 48-year-old energetic business-oriented conservative who hopes to catch some of the bounce from Nicolas Sarkozy's recent victory in France. Reynders, who is also Finance Minister, was even in Paris on May 6 to celebrate Sarkozy's triumph...
Another film about penguins? They've marched and danced; now they hang 10 in a funny, hip cartoon mockumentary--sort of Capturing the Penguins-- that goes behind the scenes in a Hawaiian surfing contest to expose the romance, dirty deals and ultimate triumph of the underbird. Shia LaBeouf voices the little hero. Jeff Bridges, as the kid's mentor, reprises his Dude character from The Big Lebowski. Not a comedy tsunami, just consistent ripples of laughs and good vibes...
...against the Bantams in front of a rowdy home crowd on the strength of an impressive comeback from Duboc. With the two teams knotted at four matches apiece and the senior down, 0-2, Duboc fought her way back from the brink of elimination to eventually triumph, 2-9, 7-9, 9-3, 9-6, 9-6. “I knew we needed this match,” Duboc said afterwards. “I was very nervous in the beginning, until a game and a half in, then I started playing and got nervous again. It?...
This time, though, the Crimson rose to the occasion and cruised to a 3-1 win. Its final league match against Columbia, a breezy 3-1 triumph, clinched the title outright, as the team became the school’s first Ivy League champions of the 2006-07 school year...