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...dominated by hard-line mullahs had effectively rigged the outcome by disqualifying some 2,000 potential candidates - most of them reformists. The move capped a month-long drama that climaxed with the resignation of 130 reformist parliament members in protest. After attempting to mediate a compromise, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei came down firmly on the side of the conservatives. Calling reformists "ignorant people" who parroted "the enemies of this nation," he sternly refused to reverse the disqualifications or delay the balloting "even by one day." Iran's conservatives are now expected to sweep back into parliament, four years after...
...defensive end, Harvard provided more aid than had been offered the night before to sophomore goalie Ali Boe, who responded by posting a solid 18 saves and allowing one lone goal mid-first period...
...good job of rebounding as compared to [Friday night],” Corriero said. “That helped Ali [Boe] out, and she came through for us and played great...
...nostalgia, in particular on Bands Reunited (weeknights, 10 p.m. E.T.). The point of the show is not so much the reunion concerts as the quotidian stories it tells on the way there--how former stars have become insurance underwriters and wedding-band players or how feuding brothers Mike and Ali Score of haircut band A Flock of Seagulls haven't seen each other in five years. When the Scores reunited for a London club show in front of their beaming mom, I misted up--even though in 1982 I'd have sooner eaten seagull than bought one of their albums...
...July 1 deadline for handing power to an Iraqi provisional government. The leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority have rejected the U.S. plan to select such a government at regional caucuses controlled by its handpicked Iraqi Governing Council. Instead, the country's most powerful spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has demanded democratic elections, and rather than put itself at odds with a pro-democracy movement among Iraq's majority community, Bremer has sought to accommodate the ayatollah's objections. Sistani's demand, backed by tens of thousands of demonstrators in Iraq's major cities in recent weeks, has prompted...