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Once fall came, the scouts started showing up to practices and games almost every week, both home and away. On top of that, Fitzpatrick has been juggling phone calls from agents and waiting to hear from showcase bowls like the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl and the East-West Shrine Game...
...accept it. Some Sistani aides say there is an implicit warning in that: if Shi'ite expectations of electoral victory are thwarted, Sistani could call his followers to rebel. "He does not think of jihad now," says Ali al-Mousawi al-Waath, Sistani's agent in the Baghdad shrine district of Khadimiya, "but that depends on what the Americans do." Iraq's Shi'ites, he says, "follow our marja. If he tells...
...ARTS EXHIBITIONS: In a secret shrine...
...have been killed, and the city, for the most part, was quickly brought back under military control--with the Iraqi troops taking special care to seize Samarra's Golden mosque, denying the rebels the kind of rallying point they had had when they hunkered down in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. Although fighting continued throughout the afternoon and sporadically into Friday night, the enemy simply seemed to evaporate afterward. "By about [2:00 p.m.] they realized what they were up against and withdrew," says Captain Jim Pangelinan, who led his Alpha Company of the 1/14 into the western edge...
...shrine has neither the money nor the staff to keep the okushoin open permanently and the building is not architecturally suited to being a full-time museum. So Takubo says he has no idea when the treasures will be on public display again?or if he will be around when it happens. "It could be 33 more years," he says, looking back at the inner sanctum filled with flowers. "It could be 125. I hope not, but it could...