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That “everything” will most likely be a mid-round selection by a Major League franchise in this year’s June Draft. Though his stock has been hurt by a bone chip in his knee which required offseason surgery—an injury that kept him from being drafted last June—and a poor, injury-riddled showing in Cape Cod (.216-2-10), playing at full health this season would go a long way towards trumping both setbacks...
...stinging blow to the Bush Administration's exit strategy and to Bremer, even if the disagreement can soon be smoothed over. Without ever appearing in public or communicating with American officials, Ayatullah Sistani showed just how much power he wields over Iraq's future. During the contentious negotiations to draft the basic law, Shi'ite members would frequently accept a point, then reopen the issue after hearing from Ayatullah Sistani. Now they were playing the same trick in public as a way to gain maximum leverage. But any attempt to revise the disputed clauses will probably infuriate the Kurds...
Late last Thursday night, a tired but content Bremer was proudly telling TIME of the occupation's first solid political accomplishment in 11 months. Three days of tense marathon negotiations in the Iraqi Governing Council had culminated in unanimous approval of a surprisingly liberal draft constitution just before the dawn call to prayers on March 1. Bremer praised the much maligned council for taking a "wonderful" step toward democracy. In a triumphant news conference that morning, Shi'ite council member Muwaffaq al-Rubaie called it "a historic day in the long march toward building a new Iraq...
...Tuesday's bombings delayed formal adoption by the Iraqi Governing Council of an interim constitution whose draft was finally agreed last Sunday after months of bitter wrangling. But Iraqi leaders presented a united front in condemning the attacks and urging Iraqis against responding to sectarian provocations. Despite deep differences, they share a common interest in keeping the transition process on track, and most sought to put the blame for Tuesday's massacre on foreign elements, such as the al-Qaeda-linked Jordanian fugitive Musab al-Zarqawi, dedicated to fomenting a civil war. The message: Don't fall into this bloody...
...That had taken a major step forward at the weekend with the adoption by the IGC of a draft Basic Law, or interim constitution, which was subsequently approved by U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer. The document represents an interim political consensus designed to avoid an intra-Iraqi battle for power, and as such reflects a hard-fought compromise on questions such as Kurdish autonomy, the rights of women and the role of Islam. Its democratic federal provisions, underpinned by a bill of rights guaranteeing freedoms familiar in the West, would make it something of a model constitution among Arab nations...