Word: amal
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...Sunday, Hizballah, the militia and Shi'a Muslim political party, pulled out of the governing coalition along with Amal, another Shi'a political party. Hizballah and Amal, which together represent almost all of Lebanon's Shi'a, had been demanding four new cabinet positions on the grounds that their resistance against Israel during the war over the summer merits greater representation in government...
...divided and angry, and because of fear that the hostility between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq could spread to Lebanon. "This is a critical moment in Lebanese history, and in a region that is boiling from Baghdad to Gaza," said Ali Hamdan, a spokesman for the Amal Movement, a Shi'ite party allied with Hizballah. "It would be helpful for Lebanon to face these challenges with one heart...
...said co-author John Z. Ayanian, associate professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School. “In our study, we focus on the outcomes of care,” Researchers tracked 334,204 patients within over 100 different Medicare-managed care plans, said Amal N. Trivedi, another co-author of the study and an assistant professor of community health at Brown Medical School. “We looked at how well each plan in Medicare performs in controlling blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure for their enrollees,” Trivedi said. Specifically, the outcomes...
...long ago, Berri's role as Hizballah's representative at the bargaining table would have been unthinkable. Amal and Hizballah were once rivals for authority among Lebanon's Shia - their militias fought each other during the Civil War - but the two pro-Syrian groups have become close ever since the end of Syria's occupation of Lebanon last year. The fight with Israel has brought them even closer...
...unlike Hizballah, Berri and Amal have never attacked Israel or warmed to Hizballah's "Death to America" stance. In fact Berri, who was born in West Africa but raised in Lebanon, was once a lawyer for General Motors and lived in Detroit in the 1970s. And though the U.S. has refused to have any contact with Hizballah since they bombed the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps Barracks in Lebanon in 1983, Berri has met with Rice several times before. When Rice traveled to Lebanon in February of this year to put pressure on Syria to comply with the U.N. investigation...