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...team’s returning leader in every triple crown category, the kid who had started all 83 games of his Harvard career and who would have been, without a doubt, Sky Mann’s de facto assistant captain in practice if not in name, had to just stand there...
...percent of the seats. The Kurds see their once-off kingmaker role as their best opportunity to press for maximum autonomy and oil-revenue share for their independence-minded people. As their price for endorsing a Shiite-led government, they're demanding not only an extension of their de facto autonomy in their three northern provinces - including the right to retain their own armed forces and prohibit the national army from entering their domain - but also control of the divided oil-rich city of Kirkuk and of Iraq's oil ministry. That's a prohibitive price for the Arab majority...
...unlikely to accept the legitimacy of any such far-reaching agreements achieved on this basis. Sistani himself never accepted the TAL, and urged that it be changed by an elected Iraqi body, not simply because its authors had been a U.S. occupation authority but because he rejected the de facto veto it gave to the Kurds. Sistani has begun sending increasingly urgent exhortations to the Assembly to get on with forming a government...
Evans saw the house system as a place where de facto segregation along ethnic and economic lines prevailed...
...their domain be extended to include the fiercely contested oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They want a greater share of oil revenues, and also insist on keeping their ethnic militia - the peshmerga - intact, simply incorporating it under the umbrella of the Iraqi national army but making it the de facto defense force of the Kurdish region, into which no other national army units would be allowed to enter. In essence, the Kurds are naming as their price for cooperation the right to put in place the basic infrastructure of secession in an expanded Kurdish region...