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> 院生たちに慰問に現れた葉子 **を巡り** 、再び力石とジョーは拳を交える **ことに** 。

  1. For the word 「を巡り」, does it mean 'concerning' which is similar to the meaning of 「を巡って」?

  2. For the word 「ことに」, is it a colloquial short form of 「ことになる」?
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What do the phrases 「ことに」 at the end of a sentence and 「を巡り」 mean?
>   1. For the word 「を[巡]{めぐ}り」, does it mean 'concerning' which is similar to
> the meaning of 「を巡って」?
>

Exactly. 「～～を巡り」 is a little more formal than 「～～を巡って」. Both express the
source of dispute (or a fight in this case).

>   2. For the word 「ことに」, is it a colloquial short form of 「ことになる」?
>

Precisely. When what is left unsaid is clear to the readers from the context,
words are often omitted like that.
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