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Doubts remain about Schill's chances of scoring another upset during elections in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt scheduled for April 21. Schill claims the Law and Order Offensive has 20% support there, but opinion polls give it just 2% of the vote. A party needs 5% to earn a place in the state legislature. "Schill's party is like a collection point for dissatisfied people," says Ralf Tils, a political scientist at the University of Lüneburg. "At the moment there's a potential for a far-right protest party. But Schill can't control...
...That sort of call from the hinterland got Washington's attention in 1991, when bookish Democrat Harris Wofford ran for the Senate on the health-care issue and pulled off a stunning upset over a two-time Pennsylvania Governor. The next year Bill Clinton deftly appropriated Wofford's message, vowing to "make health care affordable for every family," and toppled the first President Bush. But when Clinton tried to fix the problem--and almost lost his own presidency--he gave all the other politicians pause about making any such promises again...
Earlier this season, Princeton upset Harvard, 2-1, behind the spectacular goaltending of Dave Stathos. Stathos stopped 37 shots in the win, including several from close range...
...this weekend’s games the Crimson will punch its ticket to its first NCAA women’s tournament since 1998. The last time Harvard reached the NCAA tournament, a squad led by Allison Feaster ’98 shocked the basketball world, as the Crimson upset Stanford 71-67 in the first victory for a 16 seed in NCAA tournament history...
...hearing Wednesday by questioning the war's price tag, Majority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Thursday that the U.S. must add two more prisoners to its X-Ray pen - Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...