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...groups recently pledged to work together in an accord signed by Sadr and SIIC leader Abdul Aziz al Hakim two weeks ago in Iran, the power grab plays out daily on the streets of southern cities such as Diwaniyah. "What's happening in this town is like a political duel over who's going to govern," said Ali al Mayali, a Sadrist member of the Iraqi Parliament. "It's a fight to control the street." Fueling that fight, Mayali said, is money and other support from neighboring countries. He would not point fingers. While U.S. officials point to the presence...
...Mankiewicz and the urban sophisticates he wrote about, words were swords in the duel of wits. He thought of himself as a screen playwright, and Hollywood as Broadway West: films were theater in closeup. (Academy voters apparently agreed with Mankiewicz: they named him best director as well as best writer for Three Wives and Eve.) No question, he loved the sound of his own authorial voice; it had an overripe eloquence that could beguile any viewer-listener. And when he turned plays into films - producing Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story or directing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - he could fall...
...Mental Supermen Lock in ESP Duel; Top Psychic's Head Explodes...
...opener, Don't Make Me a Target, is a duel between an optimistic piano and a guitar strummed with such tension that each chord cuts like a serrated tooth on a very long knife. It yields to the euphoric You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb, which like a lot of Daniel songs--he's the chief melody writer, guitarist and lyricist--is about a breakup. But rather than get pinned down by regret ("We lost it long ago, you and me"), Daniel's vocal diverts a few abstract lines in the chorus ("Blow out that cherry bomb...
...obviously it was relief on our part,” Badgers coach Mark Johnson said in his post-game comments. “It’s unfortunate somebody had to lose the hockey game.” The one score ended a classic goalie’s duel between Martin and Wisconsin junior Jessie Vetter, who each maintained shutouts through more than two games’ worth of hockey. Martin made a school-record 67 saves in the best performance of her young career, keeping the Crimson in a game in which it was outshot nearly...