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Despite knocking home a goal on the vaunted Eagles defense, which had not allowed a score in its first six games of the year, the Crimson (1-4-1) was overpowered by its hosts, falling on the road Friday evening by a tally...
...results of this year’s UC district representative elections were announced on Friday, the first election since the Council passed a resolution increasing the number of representatives from two to three people per district...
...would sit down with Iran for talks. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sending his usual supply of mixed signals to the world, supports negotiations but is outwardly defiant on budging on Iran's nuclear policy, which Iran claims is for peaceful energy purposes. To make matters worse, Ahmadinejad took Friday to again question the Holocaust and also made a bizarre call for the breakup of Europe and even Russia into smaller nation-states - a statement that may leave Russia quite perplexed and anxious. (Read about Iran and Obama's shelved missile shield...
...against using Qods Day as an opportunity to protest the contested June election result and the harsh treatment of prisoners during the post-election crackdown. Yet the chief opposition representatives (Khatami, Mehdi Karoubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi) all publicly called for Iranians to come out on the streets on Friday - not to protest against the lack of Palestinian rights but to protest against the lack of social and civil rights in Iran. (See the turbulent aftermath of Iran's election...
...took place in past months. Just as in previous demonstrations, old and young individuals from various social backgrounds attended the rallies, clashing with security forces and plainclothes Basiji militias and loudly voicing slogans during marches near the site of the President's speech at the University of Tehran's Friday prayers...