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NOMINATED. Jawad al-Maliki, 56, hard-line Shi'ite leader; to replace outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari after he agreed to abandon a bid to keep his post; in Baghdad. Al-Maliki was endorsed by Iraq's Kurdish President, Jalal Talabani, as well as other key Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders who said they would support him in the hope of ending a months-long political deadlock...
...Whether Bush?s arguments persuade Hu probably won?t be apparent until early May, when the U.N. Security Council is expected to convene on the Iran issue. At that time, diplomats from the U.S. and like-minded European nations plan to push a tough resolution demanding that Iran abandon its nuclear ambitions or face sanctions. U.S. officials aren?t counting on the votes of China and Russia, but if the pair merely abstains rather than exercises its vetoes, the resolution is likely to pass...
...message should be - whether they should encourage people to skip school, refuse to work and boycott local stores. On Monday, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, a fierce proponent of immigrant rights, released a statement encouraging his city's constituents to attend a city rally in the evening rather than abandon their posts on May 1; he even suggests bosses allot time for immigration discussions on the clock. According to Mahony's statement, students should "understand that boycotting school on May 1st will not bring about just and humane immigration reform - sometimes, boycotts could even work against positive reform...
...editorial stated that the Undergraduate Council should abandon a plan for a student poll on Summers’ leadership; on Feb. 21, the news section fronted a story about a poll our reporters had conducted on students’ views of Summers...
...have opted to simply start new lives in new cities, Fountain has chosen to cope with Hurricane Katrina the way Petruccio deals with his Kate in “The Taming of the Shrew.” He will not bow under her fuss and noise. Neither will he abandon her.‘MUSICIANS’ CITY’Fountain is one of the few who has moved back into this bit of the Upper Ninth Ward. He is little less than a block away from the Habitat for Humanity site where some 40 Harvard undergraduates helped...