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ANALYSIS: Interim coach Stan Moore led the Raiders to a first-place finish while his boss, Don Vaughan, filled in as school athletic director. It’s not likely Vaughan will be able to replicate Moore’s effort this time around. Colgate overachieved last season and expecting top honors in 2004-2005 would be too much to ask. But that doesn’t mean the Raiders won’t finish near the top of the heap. To do so, they’ll rely upon Jon Smyth, who scored 42 points last year and emerged...
...This is a time of political transition. At the right time, the military has to be placed under the Defense Ministry to ensure that politicians are the policymakers. But we have to make sure that a civilian Defense Minister knows how to separate military and political matters. [In the interim,] I will make sure that communication and coordination are solid between the Defense Minister and the military, and that it is the Defense Minister who determines policy and budget. What we don't want is for the military to be used for any political purposes. This will be counterproductive...
...embrace many of his opponent's prescriptions for Iraq. Bush and his advisers routinely dismiss Kerry's calls to internationalize the occupation, but the U.S.'s failure to pacify Iraq has forced the White House to seek help it rejected last April. It enlisted the U.N. to select an interim government and oversee January's national elections and secured NATO's participation in training Iraqi security forces...
...constitution. When the U.S. proposed a complex caucus system for voting, Sistani responded by putting 100,000 peaceful demonstrators into the streets to support his call for national one-man, one-vote elections by January 2005. With a word, he temporarily blocked the signing of the U.S.-designed interim constitution last spring because it gave too much power to minority Kurds and too little to Islamic law. When the elected assembly drafts a permanent constitution next year, he will insist it maintains Shi'ite dominance as well as strong national unity...
...Department officials are concerned that in a completely open election, Shi'ites might emerge with an enormous majority that would dangerously shunt Sunnis and Kurds aside. The National Security Council's Iraq point man, Robert Blackwill, came up with the idea of uniting members of the former and current interim governments, made up largely of exiles chosen for their ethnic balance and pro-American attitudes, into a single slate. That would give Washington's favored candidates, who have well-organized political operations but are not individually popular, a way to stay in power. Blackwill, says a well-placed U.S. official...