Word: slating
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...together an agreement for the interim government parties to compete as a single list, to create a kind of force-multiplier for groupings such as his own Iraqi National Accord that have limited political standing. Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Sistani has expressed unhappiness at the idea of a slate of mostly former-exile parties dominating the election in this way, and his boycott threat may yet pressure the major Shiite parties to avoid standing on Allawi's ticket. Among Shiite political groups, the most important questions are whether Sistani gives the poll his blessing - he may be unhappy about...
Saturday’s game opened this year’s slate of Ivy League games on the YES network. Two of the Crimson’s three losses—against Dartmouth and Columbia—were broadcast on the station. Harvard’s next appearance on YES comes on Nov. 6 against the Lions…Brown announced the establishment of the Lawrence Rubida Trust during a halftime ceremony. With cancer survivor and former Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy in attendance, Rubida—an offensive lineman and tri-captain who suffers from Ewing?...
...Harvard women’s volleyball team moved two games ahead of .500 for the first time since 2002, sweeping its three-game slate and claiming the Dartmouth Invitational title...
...When I heard that Scott was leaving and Erik was replacing him, I was very excited,” said junior Robbie Burmeister, Harvard’s goaltender. “I felt that after last year, we needed a fresh start and an opportunity to wipe the slate clean as a team...
...boycott, an election opposed by Sistani would almost certainly fail. The immediate impact of Sistani's rejection will likely be to persuade the major Shiite religious parties in Allawi's government, the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, to abandon any such joint slate. In every previous instance where the government's position has clashed with Sistani's, they've ended up siding with the cleric. And without the involvement of the two most popular parties in the provisional government on a joint slate, Allawi's chances of being elected to the office...