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...Cabinet with centrists and create a national unity government did not understand how he viewed the landscape. He told TIME in December 2000 that he believed he had won a mandate. In any case, says Calio, "The idea was to move quickly and start tucking accomplishments under the belt, so that you would refute the notion that there was no mandate and that nothing could be accomplished...
...Despite cloaking himself in the mantle of defender of the holy places, Moqtada Sadr has little claim to religious authority. He lacks the theological status of a Marjah ("object of emulation") like the Grand Ayatollahs, and there are questions over just how much seminarian learning he has under his belt. Sadr is, in other words, purely a political leader - and one quietly reviled by much of the clerical leadership. But operating in secret under Saddam's rule, he built a mass following among the Shiite urban poor, trading on the reverence for his father and grandfather, legendary rebel clerics murdered...
Sara McMann, the 63-kg (138.5-lb.) wrestler, is proven; she finished second at the 2003 world championships. Unlike her teammates, McMann, 23, followed a sibling into the sport. Her older brother Jason wrestled for McDowell High in Marion, N.C., a small, Bible Belt town in the western part of the state. The football coach told Sara's mother that it would be "a cold day in hell before a female wrestles in McDowell County." That guy must have frozen his machismo off when Sara made the boys' high school team. Unfortunately, another kind of hell awaited: Jason was murdered...
...began rehearsals for this wondrous musical, I became acutely and painfully aware that I was hopelessly out of my depth. Every day I became more self-conscious and therefore worse. I knew how to belt out a song and win over an audience, and I think I had a certain gumption that came from all the early experience. I felt that deep down inside I had the ability to play the role if someone would help...
...half years on the job. The FAM never saw - nor was he told - of any example of the men interfering with the flight crew (which is a federal crime). He never saw any activity that caused him to ask the pilots to turn on the seat belt sign (which he can request) and keep people in their seats. "Nothing my main partner or I saw on Flight 327 brought us anywhere near a conclusion that we considered breaking our cover or deploying as we've been trained. And we never came close to drawing our weapons...