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...Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside him that he is a winner, with his pride intact," recalls Sobhi. "Saddam said, 'We did not lose anything. We refuse to be humiliated in front of the Americans...
...SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov appeared as a guest for various orchestras around the world, finally getting fired from the symphony for spending too much time conducting abroad. DIED. SEATTLE SLEW, 28, the only living winner of the Triple Crown, of old age; in Lexington, Kentucky. Considered the last of the superhorses, Slew won more than a million dollars during his racing career and fathered 99 stakes winners that have earned their owners $75 million in prize money. DIED. YVES ROBERT, 81, prolific French producer...
...authority at all over state ballot access laws, that is, laws that determine which parties appear on the ballot. Nor does the FEC have authority over the manner of election. The biggest single obstacle to third party success is the United States is the “winner take all” system of elections, which discourages voters from casting a vote for a candidate deemed unlikely to win. This system is established by federal law for Congress, and by state laws for the electoral college...
With the score tied at 1-1 after three innings, the Crimson plated the eventual game-winner in the top of the fourth...
...took second behind Lambert in the 200 in a personal-best time. Juniors Nathan Shenk-Boright and Matt Seidel pulled off a difficult feat by each earning top-three finishes in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter runs yesterday. D.J. Patterson was the one other Crimson winner, taking the discus with a 50-meter throw...