Word: parliamentarians
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...stein mug hanging on a numbered peg in the Pub, and their names added to a kind of “Upper Hall of Fame” placard. HoCos singled out the most enthusiastic seniors with methods ranging from an application process to nominations, voting, and appointments. Kirkland HoCo Parliamentarian Matt Drazba ’08 says the Kirkland apps featured questions such as “If you had to name your iPod, what would you name it?” These Upper Halls were expected to ignite the Friday night scene at Queen’s Head. Nothing...
...mouth.” The lecture was co-sponsored by the International Relations Council (IRC), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Kirkland House. Martin Liby Alonso ’09, Director of Speaker Events for IRC Campus Outreach, said that he made contact with Blix through a parliamentarian in the Swedish Liberal party. Alonso, a native of Sweden, belongs to the Liberal party and served on the Gavle City Council before coming to Harvard. “Swedish liberals are a breed close to extinction” Alsonso said, referring to Blix...
...Despite the grumbling from politicians, it is still unclear whether opposition to the law is strong enough to kill it. Among the parliamentarians arguing against the law are Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc, which fears that foreign oil companies will move into Iraq in force, and stay long after U.S. soldiers have left. But logistically they will have to race back to Baghdad to vote against it. Many parliamentarians, like al-Mutlaq, spend much of their time outside Iraq - al-Sadr himself is frequently in Iran. "I'm going back for this very reason," al-Mutlaq says. "We cannot...
...interest in Iraq, and that is a matter of concern," said Abu Firas al-Saedi, a senior Dawa leader. "But the real question is: 'Why are the Arab states allowing terrorists to enter Iraq through their borders, and why are they financing them?'" That sentiment was echoed by parliamentarian Falah Shansal, from the Shi'a bloc of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. "There are groups in Saudi Arabia who finance terrorism in Iraq," he said. "Why are the Americans not talking about this...
...Hizballah has probably concluded that the government, buoyed by roughly equal support to that of the opposition and backed by the weight of the international community, will not buckle regardless of any new measures undertaken by the opposition. That was implicitly acknowledged to TIME by Qassem Hashem, an opposition parliamentarian and member of the Lebanese branch of the Ba'ath Party. "The opposition is sensitive to the political tensions in Lebanon and has decided to stop its actions to give time for international and Arab mediation," he said...