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...party that incumbent Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis toppled in 2004, ending more than two decades of almost uninterrupted socialist rule. What's more, the August 31 surveys showed that neither of the two major parties had polled over 40%, raising concern among pundits, pollsters and analysts that Sunday's winner may either have to share power with a smaller party or govern with a flimsy mandate. For the reform-minded Karamanlis, a sharp reduction in his party's parliamentary majority may hobble implementation of key economic and social reforms, including the sell-off of ailing state enterprising and revamping...
...also threatened to take Greeks on a fresh trip to the polls if his New Democracy party fails to win an outright majority. "I understand there is bitterness," Karamanlis told an election rally in northern Greece. "But this in not the time for a negative vote." A non-majority winner in Sunday's polls, he warned, would create a "political impasse" and "paralysis" for the country...
Kovacs and Dolbec paced Harvard in the team’s 12th-place showing at the Harry Anderson Trophy on Saturday and Sunday in New London, Conn. The duo took second place in A-division, 20 points behind division and regatta winner Boston College...
...Crimson played neck-and-neck with the Eagles for most of the game before relinquishing its control of the game late. Up through the 74th minute, when the Eagles tallied the eventual game-winner, Harvard challenged the ranked Boston College squad, pushing its opponents to the brink...
...happy that it was a game-winner,” Perl said...