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...such language was rarer among Iraqi voters, who tended to see the election as the fruit of their own efforts, most notably those of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whose interventions forced the U.S. to scrap its own plan for a handpicked government to write the new constitution and instead accept Sistani's demand for elections. Indeed, many voters at the polls saw voting as a means of ending ?the occupation,? the collective noun by which many Iraqis - even cabinet ministers - refer to the U.S. presence. In other words, Iraqi voters didn't necessarily see themselves as marching in President Bush...
...attracting minority support, with the Kurds being the prize on the assumption that they would have won close to 20 percent of the vote. The problem is that most Kurds don't really want to be part of Iraq at all, and are forced by realpolitik to accept affiliation with Baghdad, meaning that they seek the loosest possible federation for a new Iraqi national state, with plenty of minority veto safeguards. But Grand Ayatollah Sistani is strongly opposed to accommodating Kurdish aspirations at the expense of the central state, and if Allawi's showing gives him enough seats...
...documented cases of air-bag users being caught in avalanches in Europe, only three died. But the backpacks are rarely used in the U.S. They cost about $600, twice the price of an avalanche beacon, and they can't be carried as baggage on airlines, which won't accept the pressurized-gas canisters used to inflate the bags. Still, experts hope that will change. Says Dale Atkins, a forecaster at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, who has participated in 500 mountain searches: "It's the best tool to save lives in avalanches...
...What we discovered in the end was that the president of Ford, Susan Berresford, was not prepared to accept our suggestion…I had the sense that not everyone at Ford was of one view,” Saller says. “We thought that the model of the MacArthur Foundation was a reasonable model, and that’s one that imposes a condition that we obey relevant antiterrorism legislation...
...view as I understand it was that Ford didn’t want to give grants to any institution that didn’t accept their basic Ford values,” he adds. “What we found problematic about that is that her view of what constituted bigotry and our view of what constituted bigotry might differ...