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...entrance of the 40-year-old Inman Square resident, whose 2005 runner-up finish in the council race was his first entrance into elective politics, adds the first strong challenger to the current field of nine incumbents. All councillors are elected city-wide through a single ballot on which voters rank nine of the candidates running in their preferred order...
Quite a mouthful for an 8-year-old. And there's more. Abdullah starts pumping his fists as the kids finish with passionate vows...
...entrance of the 40-year-old Inman Square resident, whose 2005 runner-up finish in the council race was his first entrance into elective politics, adds the first strong challenger to the current field of nine incumbents. All councilors are elected city-wide through a single ballot on which voters rank nine of the candidates running in their preferred order...
...Lebanese government has said it intends to finish off Fatah al-Islam once and for all, and the soldiers expect the battle to intensify once the open-ended cease-fire ends, as they believe it inevitably will. Long after sundown, vehicles carrying refugees were still exiting from the camp. But heading in the other direction toward the frontline Lebanese army positions were columns of armored personnel carriers filled with fresh troops in preparation for what could be the climax of the battle in the coming hours and days...
...Although a crowd of onlookers cheered as Lebanese troops poured machine gun fire into the buildings, one soldier grumbled that when the troops first arrived on the scene some local residents has tried to hide the militants. "They have supporters here," he said. The government is vowing to finish Fatah al-Islam once and for all, but the struggle to contain rising Sunni extremist sentiment in Lebanon promises to be a long battle...