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There it is, the always mesmerizing playoff breakdown. If that was not convoluted enough, remember these seedings determine positioning in a tournament which determines which team earns the right to enter another tournament (with its own seeding) and attempt to unseat No. 1 North Dakota as national champions...
Galluccio, the top vote-getter in this month's City Council election, would not confirm that he is throwing his hat in the ring but said that if he runs for any position next year it will be for state representative. To win, Galluccio would have to unseat incumbent Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge), who defeated him in a close race for state representative last year by only 90 votes...
...poster-boy for the conservative agenda. Remarkably, the steamrollering of this one-time G.O.P. rising star by Helms generated only an outcry of deafening silence from his fellow Republicans in control of the Senate. This Capitol Hill embarrassment comes within a year of his failed attempt to unseat incumbent Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) last November...
...Armey, Tom DeLay and John Boehner, figures implicated in the plot along with Bill Paxon, who stepped-down last week. The lieutenants were let off the hook despite a particularly damaging account by DeLay, who admitted he informed GOP rebels he would vote with them if they moved to unseat Gingrich. Despite the admission, participants said DeLay attempted to soften his confession by saying he made his decision in a cloud of exhaustion after working 18 hours straight. Later, Boehner and Army got on their hands and knees, admitting they had entertained "hypotheticals" about a Gingrich replacement. By meeting...
...Yossi Beilin and two others. Barak, 55, is a charismatic former military chief whose career and politics closely resemble those of the late Yitzhak Rabin. Much like Rabin in his own 1992 primary against Shimon Peres, Barak ran less on policy than on the promise that he alone could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and return Labor to power. His party has long shared Barak's optimism. In April, at the height of Netanyahu's influence-trading scandal, party leaders deliberately muted their attacks until the day Barak, seen as a better candidate than Peres, could be elected...