Word: contendere
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Al-Rubeiy isn't a top contender. He is campaigning as a member of the secular Iraqi National Accord Party, headed by former Prime Minister Ayad al-Allawi. It is a party that falls below the popularity of ruling Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Islamic Party. Rubeiy believes...
APPOINTED Most recently a top contender for the No. 2 spot under Barack Obama, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, 50, was named the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 4. Kaine's term as governor expires at the end of the year.
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan will be nominated to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s solicitor general, the administration’s representative to the Supreme Court, Obama announced in a press release Monday morning.If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will represent the federal government, party...
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 74, acknowledged to the country's parliament that Somalia was paralyzed and that there was nothing more he could do. "As I promised when you elected me on Oct. 14, 2004, I would stand down if I failed to fulfill my duty. I have decided to...
And let’s not neglect those less prestigious but no less devious players, good old American boys like 1950s State Secretary Orville Hodge, who embezzled around $1.5 million in state funds to buy private jets and cars, or former Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds, who served time after his...