Word: ouster
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...achieving legitimacy in Iraqi eyes may lie with the Shiite majority, and in particular with the Hawza, the national Shiite clerical leadership based at Najaf. The Hawza has been demonstrably the most organized and effective Iraqi social force on the ground in the wake of Saddam's ouster. On their orders, Iraqis in different cities (and in Baghdad's largest neighborhoods) have suppressed looting, mounted security patrols and restored basic services. But the Hawza comprises different factions: Its leader is Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who advocates keeping the clergy out of directly political roles. But that view is challenged...
...government is hurting for cash, too, with much of the aid money promised by donor nations in the wake of the Taliban's ouster having failed to materialize. Rumsfeld's announcement was designed in part to persuade donors that the war is over and it's now time to send reconstruction aid. (The Bush administration wasn't exactly leading by example when it simply forgot to include aid for Afghanistan in the initial version of the budget it sent to Congress in February.) Most of the $1.8b that arrived in the first year after the war was spent...
Kirby praised Lewis but said that his ouster was necessary to bridge the “artificial disconnect” between academic and extracurricular life at the College...
Lewis’ unexpected ouster leaves the council leaders worrying that they won’t have the administrative conduit and open ear that, many say, has facilitated the groups rise to greater legitimacy over the past few years...
...dean, Gross will head the formerly-separate offices of undergraduate education and the College—offices which were merged with the ouster of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 in March...