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...long-term plan, we will see if most of the changes of the heart are in place by the time athletes arrive to college,” added Baggish. Harvard running back Clifton G. Dawson ’07, who is training for the NFL draft, said heart was the bedrock of competition. “During the course of the game, there are so many high points and low points, you need a strong heart to be able to focus and give it your all to win,” he said...
...Such concerned thinking for the planet's future does not carry much weight with Argentine nationalists, who see Tompkins as a meddlesome foreigner. The heaviest fire has come from the more extreme elements within the ruling Peronist Party. Left-wing legislator Araceli Mendez introduced draft legislation in Congress a few months ago to confiscate the American's vast holdings. The Argentine press has suggested he might be a covert CIA operative securing American access to the aquifer as fears increase of a worldwide fresh water shortage over the coming decades. "He says he's worried about the birds...
...Maliki hailed the country's new petroleum law as a "solid base for unity of all Iraqis" - a rare boast these days. President Bush has also trumpeted it as proof that Iraq has a viable future. But parliamentarians and Iraq's oil unions have already begun mobilizing against the draft legislation, arguing that it is a desperate attempt by al-Maliki's government to satisfy Western demands, which could damage Iraq's economic future and speed the country's ultimate disintegration...
...figure out how many people will stand against it." He says he is certain he will find allies among his colleagues, who he says believe that the law is geared to the needs of Western oil companies rather than Iraqis. There has been no public hearing on the draft, whose details have largely been kept secret. Iraqi lawmakers fumed last July when U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman discussed the draft during a trip to the region, "when hardly a single parliamentarian had seen it," says Kamil Mahdi, an Iraqi who is senior lecturer in Middle East economics at the University...
...Iraq's biggest oil unions, which could potentially disrupt production, have been among the law's strongest opponents. Hassan Jum'ah Awwad Al-Asadi, head of Iraq's Federation of Oil Unions, the largest union group, says he intends to mobilize his 23,000 or so members against the draft. "We want a new, different law, which will be in the interests of Iraqis," he said by phone from Basra on Wednesday. "If there is no solution we can stop production, stop exports." In a more threatening tone, he told union members at a conference on the law in Basra...