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Hamas Appears to Win Majority in Palestinian Elections

NPR

By Linda Gradstein

Published January 26, 2006 at 8:03 AM EST

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniya waves during a press conference in Gaza City Jan. 26.

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Linda Gradstein

Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.

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