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...copied all the names of all the rowers off the photographs,” Cuse said. “And then I went to Widener and looked them up in the directory.”By the time Cuse had finished the project, he had secured a major financial backer, convinced actor and writer George H. Plimpton ’48 to narrate it, and had sold it to the network TBS, which soon aired it.“That was my calling card,” he says. “I came out to LA and got hired...
...unlikely to choose the U.S.-favored Abdul Adel Mahdi as his replacement. Not only is there resentment created by U.S. intervention in the political process, but Adel-Mahdi is the candidate of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the arch-rival of Jaafari's major backer, the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr. More likely is the emergence of a weak compromise candidate to preside over a fractious government facing divisive issues ranging from revising the constitution and oil revenues to dealing with the militias responsible for growing sectarian strife. Not surprising, then, that Secretary Rice warned Wednesday...
...turned for guidance on resolving the standoff, has insisted that it resolve the issue both speedily and unanimously. That demand will likely translate into a compromise candidate, and Abdul-Mahdi doesn't necessarily fit that bill: not only has he come out publicly against Jaafari, but Jaafari's principal backer is radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose militia and political organization are at loggerheads with Abdul-Mahdi's SCIRI. In the end, the Shi'ites may be inclined to find a more neutral candidate not affiliated with either faction - a candidate who would, in point of fact, start out even weaker...
...biggest loser in the whole episode seemed to be Prime Minister de Villepin and his principal backer, President Chirac, who took a calculated risk by pushing the measure only a year before France's presidential and legislative elections only to back down in the face of popular pressure. During a TV interview Monday night, de Villepin defended his defunct law, asserting that both it and his motives "hadn't been understood...
...good outing. And Cole, he was rolling, so you’re not going to take him out when he’s rolling like that.“Haviland’s only misstep was with the glove, when he overthrew first base on a come-backer from the Tigers’ first batter of the game, Dan Degeorge, for a three-base error. Degeorge scored on Andrew Salini’s RBI double, making the score 2-1.Wilson tacked the Crimson to an early 2-0 edge when he launched a longball into the shrubbery beyond the left-center...