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Throwing Their Weight Around...
...position on the streets, Sistani won over a majority of the Governing Council and forced Bremer to bring in the United Nations to rule on the viability of elections - and in the process, the Shiite leader appears to have succeeded in giving the writ of the UN greater weight than the Bush administration in determining Iraq's political future. That may be a practical necessity, since Sistani refuses even to meet with U.S. officials...
This strategy forced Columbia’s Devin Mesanko to wrestle up a weight class at 165 lbs., where he also scored a decision, this time over senior Brandon Kauffman...
...junior Jonas Corl at heavyweight, continued to impress with a 4-2 double overtime victory. The win was Ogunwole’s fourth in his first six collegiate matches, and he now ranks third in the conference. Ogunwole will remain Harvard’s man at the top weight category now that it’s known Corl will not return for the rest of the year due to his leg injury...
...expected ones--a higher minimum wage, better job training, medical coverage for the almost 44 million who have none. Will any of it happen? The working poor don't vote in anything like the numbers of their more affluent neighbors, so even in election years they carry no real weight. But the economic boom of the '90s is behind us, job creation is feeble, and the time limits on welfare are kicking in. Expect those dominoes to start falling faster than ever...