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...draw the Kurds into his own bloc. But the Kurds, secular and seperatist, they are hardly natural allies for the moderate Islamist-nationalist UIA list assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Still, they may see the Sistani list as a more viable government, if they can strike a deal that gives the Shiites the power they seek in Baghdad in exchange for de facto Kurdish independence in the northern provinces - largely at the expense of Sunni Arabs and ethnic Turkmen in Kirkuk and other contested areas. Ultimately, however, the Kurds are likely to choose the horse that...
...Sistani's objections to the TAL are that it offers minorities veto power over majority decisions, for example in allowing a two-thirds no-vote on a new constitution in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces to strike it down. And it's not hard to envisage a situation where if the provisions of the U.S.-bequeathed law are used to deny the Shiites the majority power they believe they won in a democratic election, Shiite opposition to the TAL - and to the influence, even the continued presence of the U.S. in Iraq - would harden...
...interference call just 12 seconds later undercut any advantage the Bulldogs hoped to gain from the strike. Senior Andrew Lederman, positioned at the left point, deftly weaved his way past one defender and into the faceoff circle, where he skirted a pass through a collapsing lane to freshman Jon Pelle, who found the open net to tie the score once more...
Though Yale held even throughout the second period, answering Harvard captain Noah Welch’s power-play strike with one of its own, the increasingly bedraggled Bulldogs scarcely challenged the Crimson for control in the third period, surrendering 12 shots while managing just two as a result of the five penalties they were assessed...
...Bangladeshi opposition figure and former Finance Minister, along with four others; in a grenade blast at a rally for the Awami League party; in Laskarpur, northeast Bangladesh. The party whose leader, Sheikh Hasina, narrowly escaped a similar bombing in the capital Dhaka last August, called a nationwide general strike over the weekend to protest the killings. Subsequent riots in Dhaka and other areas led to more than 100 arrests...