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After its four debut episodes addressed serious questions like rape, student-TF romance, and sexuality, episodes five and six—scheduled for release this month—will tackle a new slate of topical plotlines. At the top of the list, Pepi says, is Wentworth’s journey through the painstaking trials of punch season...
...Iraqi security forces, killing 12 in an ambush in Kirkuk. Even so, the vote jump-started a first chapter in democracy: before the ballots were even counted, politicians in Baghdad were already engaging in the ancient art of dealmaking. Early trends suggest that the so-called Sistani List--a slate of religious Shi'ites and secular parties that has the backing of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani--has won a majority in the 275-member Transitional National Assembly. Vying for second place are a unified Kurdish list and the secular list of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Washington's preferred...
...nice to get back on track,” Hochberg said. “We got to put Trinity behind us and start with a clean slate...
...absence of reliable nationwide opinion polls, predicting a victor in the Jan. 30 election is a fool's game. Even if the Shi'ite slate lives up to claims by its leaders that it has the backing of 60% of the country, it's hard to know who would emerge as the candidate for Prime Minister...
...just the insurgents who would like to see the U.S. go. "The best way to please the masses, to gain legitimacy and credibility," says al-Dulame, "is to slap down the Americans in a very public way." Many of the leaders on the Shi'ite slate say a summary eviction of the U.S. would not serve the new government's interests, since Iraqi security forces are in no position to pick up the slack. "When the Americans go will depend on when our own forces are ready and on how the resistance responds after the elections," says al-Mahdi. Still...