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...Grand Ayatullah Ali Hussein al-Sistani, the most powerful Shi'ite in Iraq. Al-Sistani had been insisting on direct election of a new government next spring because he feared that the U.S. proposal - for an indirect process featuring local caucuses throughout the country - might easily be manipulated to favor the nonelected members of Iraq's Governing Council, particularly the Pentagon's perennial favorite former exile, Ahmed Chalabi. According to the Financial Times, al-Sistani is now willing to let the U.N. decide whether direct elections or the American plan would be easier to carry out next spring...
...there was also the possibility that the Bush Administration was racked by its never ending ideological battle over unilateral action. The State Department was firmly in favor of an international deal. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was said to be ready to shed the burdens of local governance in Iraq. The Coalition Provisional Authority was divided - but L. Paul Bremer told Senator Hillary Clinton that he favored U.N. involvement in the selection of a new government. The Vice President remains skeptical about any U.N. role. The President, however, may be turning away from the hard-liners and toward a more pragmatic approach...
...house without her gold star, a pin distributed by a local bank in support of the troops. Jim's father, a Vietnam veteran, was always enthusiastic about his son's enlistment. "It's an excellent idea for the education. You play the odds and figure they were in your favor," says Charles, 53, district manager for a photography company in Youngstown, Ohio...
...rising just 8% on average. They now look relatively cheap next to tech (up 40%) and basic materials (up 30%). And as it becomes evident that the expansion is on track and interest rates will move higher, threatening the earnings of cyclical companies, defensive stocks will come into favor. Another likely shift will be out of small stocks, which do best early in a recovery, and into large stocks, which have lagged for three years...
...Sullivan pulled Yada in favor of sophomore starter Michael Beal 1:17 into the extra period...