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...striking contrast to the form of most state and national elections in the United States. Both are based on the perplexing notion that 51 percent of the vote deserves 100 percent of the representation. In this very manner we elect our Congress and our state legislatures. It is a winner-take-all system that awards disproportionate power to even the slightest majority...
Senior forward Will Hench, who played a consistent and solid game, fired a laser towards the upper right corner, but senior Crusader goalkeeper Chuck Chiesa made a great save to prevent what would have been the game-winner...
Hench was denied yet another goal after Chiesa made a spectacular diving save on what appeared to be the game-winner, with six minutes left in the first overtime period...
...deathblow Tuesday when the assembly voted to reject his speech giving account of his 16-month tenure. Habibie's prospects had dimmed Monday when powerful armed forces chief General Wiranto declined his offer of the vice presidency. Even if Habibie drops out, it?s hard to pick a winner. Opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri polled the most votes in June?s election ? and her legions of protesting supporters have vowed to launch a revolution if she is denied the presidency ? but she has declined to get involved in the behind-closed-doors deal-making. "Even her own supporters complain privately...
...going to play Tarzan, be Tarzan. And he was. He was a winner...