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...whose relationship with the U.S. soured after he was accused of passing secrets to Iran. Though he commands little popular backing, Chalabi waged an aggressive campaign for the premiership, hoping to pick up support from uncommitted members of the Sistani List, or slate of parties approved by Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to which both Chalabi and al-Jaafari belong. But al-Jaafari's ties to the list's powerful religious bloc give him a formidable advantage...
...even though the Crimson was not able to hold on to the lead, with St. Lawrence scoring two more goals for the tie, Harvard junior goalie Ali Boe played impressively. Boe posted 32 saves for the game, blocking most of the Saints’ tough shots...
Harvard sealed the win in the choppy third period, with junior goalie Ali Boe seeing increased action, picking up seven of her 13 saves on the night. The shutout was Boe’s fifth of the year and served notice to upcoming opponents about the strength of play from the Crimson’s keepers...
...ashamed to be a member of the same military responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and claims to be a victim of the "poverty draft," which he says encourages poor people with no career prospects to join the armed forces. The most famous deserter, Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, who briefly appeared to have been kidnapped in Iraq last June only to resurface in Lebanon unharmed, recently disappeared again, failing to return after a holiday leave from his base in North Carolina, where his pretrial hearing was being held; he is now on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service...
...frontrunner for the key position of Prime Minister is currently Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leader of the Shiite Islamist Dawa party. Jaafari is the favorite to win the nomination of the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance list, assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. His key rival for the job, economist Adel Abdel Mahdi of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), agreed to take himself out of the running. In exchange for backing the Dawa man, SCIRI will likely get a candidate of its own choosing into one of two vice presidencies, and also...