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...sported a solid 8-1-1 record and averaged over two goals a game entering the match against Brown. The loss shocked a team that had previously been tops in the Ivy League. The overtime loss was followed by a double-overtime draw against Holy Cross and a comeback against lowly Princeton. The team with copious options in the attacking third was suddenly stricken with an inability to find the back of the net. What was once seamless play quickly transformed into long-ball tactics and sloppiness in the midfield. Dartmouth marched onto Ohiri Field and ended all hope...
...going to see Larijani as a very active and confident speaker," a Tehran analyst told TIME. His comeback has underscored the increasing fragility of Ahmadinejad's authority in the country; less than a year ago, the President had effectively forced Larijani out of his senior post as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and Iran's top nuclear negotiator...
...Even then, his comeback proves there is deep discontent within conservative circles over Ahmadinejad's leadership, and raises the likelihood that the incumbent will be strongly challenged by another leading conservative presidential candidate. Among those contenders may be the popular mayor of Tehran, Mohammed-Baqer Qalibaf, who has criticized Ahmadinejad's belligerent foreign policy statements and mishandling of the Iranian economy. Ahmadinejad seems to recognize the shifting winds; he let it be known that he, too, preferred his bitter rival Larijani over Haddad-Adel in the speaker contest...
...most venerated Shi'ite religious leader in the country, shuns the limelight. But it fell his way last week nonetheless when Iraqi Prime Ministry Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker appeared in Najaf separately within days of each other. It raised questions whether Sistani is making a comeback as a voice in political decision-making in Iraq...
...intimidating, beating and killing opposition supporters and others suspected of disloyalty to the regime. The M.D.C. says around 32 of its members have died, although it is impossible to verify these claims. The repression seems aimed at cowing the country into "supporting" Mugabe, enabling him to make a spectacular comeback in any presidential run-off. Under Zimbabwe's electoral law, if no candidate wins the support of more than 50% of the electorate, the two leading candidates must face each other in a second round. Though that same law also mandates the second result must be held within three weeks...