Word: stroke
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...remote, high-living élitist. As recently as March 2005, just 13% of Israelis in a poll wanted Olmert for their leader. But his prospects began to turn last fall, when Sharon deserted the right-wing Likud Party to form the centrist Kadima. Six weeks later, a stroke put Sharon in a coma, leaving Olmert to take over as acting government head and party leader. In last month's general election, Kadima won more seats in parliament than any other party, cementing Olmert's claim as Prime Minister--and capping a run of political fortune that has left counterparts numb...
...foot margin—the equivalent of one seat. The race stayed tight from start to finish, with the Bears’ early six-seat lead the largest either team would claim throughout. Brown broke out to that six-seat margin within the race’s first 20 strokes, and Harvard remained six seats back throughout the first 500 meters. “We expected them to start pretty quickly,” Henderson said. “But we sort of expected to draw them back in, like we did most of last season.”After...
...TIME: Still, you became Prime Minister in pretty extraordinary circumstances, after Ariel Sharon's stroke. Did you feel prepared...
...behind eventual winner Methodist College. Freshman Michael Shore led Harvard with a No. 53 finish out of the 127 players present, carding rounds of 80, 83, and 72 on the par-72 layout. Shore continued to build on his solid fall, when he finished second on the team in stroke average. “Being a freshman, it’s kind of hard to crack into the lineup sometimes,” senior D.J. Hynes said, “and he’s really stepped in and helped us out.” Hynes himself was the team?...
...Ariel Sharon with defectors - critics say "opportunists"- from Likud and Labor. And it took an iron-fisted patriarch like Sharon to hold this band of feisty Napoleons together. Party insiders admit that if Sharon were leading the party instead of lying in a coma after a January 4 stroke, Kadima would have fared far better. Now, Kadima will be at the mercy of many partners. Even as the votes were still being counted, Olmert?s advisers last night say they were swamped by calls from prospective coalition allies wanting in on the deal...