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...both the give-no-quarter right and the peacenik ideology of the left. Labor voters seeking tough security and Likud voters ready for pragmatic solutions flocked to Kadima. So did high-profile luminaries from both parties, including a cluster of ranking Likud leaders and Labor's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. Polls taken early this month showed Kadima would trounce its rivals, giving Sharon a rarity in Israeli politics: a strong and stable mandate to go on doing what he was doing...
...PRESIDENT AS A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE SINCE THE '80s. Only for the money. I'm not one of those weenies who will drop out of the race just because they held an election and the Electoral College declared somebody else the winner. I just stay in the race and keep accepting cash contributions. That's the kind of candidate I am. Also, I have bumper stickers left over...
...allowed wunderkind Peng to attend the prestigious Evert Tennis Academy in Florida. "She excelled very quickly," recalls John Cappo, managing director of IMG China, who has acted as Peng's agent. "In China, coaches focus on punishment and point out players' faults. We convinced her that she's a winner, and she started acting like one." Peng transformed from a top-300 to top-100 player. But within two months of her arrival in the U.S., Peng was recalled by the local tennis team from her adopted hometown, Tianjin. Though she did spend nearly two years overseas, frequent trips back...
...meter dash. “The preliminary report is that it’s a mild pull,” Haggerty said. “Hopefully she’ll be back by the end of the month.” Harvard had just one double-winner during the afternoon, as captain Laura Maludzinski finished first in both the 800 meters and the mile with times of 2:18.54 and 5:16.89, respectively. She also anchored the 4x800 meter relay team to a 9:31.70 win of the event, when she turned a large deficit at the start...
TROY, N.Y.—When Jake Morissette fired the eventual game-winner past Harvard goaltender John Daigneau with one second remaining on a Crimson bench minor, the rowdy Rensselaer crowd started chanting...