Mr Rafsanjani, a pragmatic conservative who had restyled himself as a cautious reformer, had been expected to face an out-and-out moderniser in the run-off.
The Wolves hit back with two cracking tries in two minutes, scored by wingers Mark Forster and Wakefield-born Alan Hunte, but too far out for stand-off Steve Blakeley to convert.
Ryder took slightly longer to warm up, but spectacularly took 20 runs off the first four balls off Craig Wright's over, the third of the innings, before holing out at long-off.
As a result, the out-of-form Michael Hussey (49 not out off 55 balls) - had only Australia's number nine, Nathan Hauritz, for company when the batting powerplay came.
And right before the ball dropped, he said, I'm going to say a message to fans: You guys out there - those players out there are working their butts off - and you sit there and boo them.
The tailender gradually began to play with some confidence, cutting Jacques Kallis delightfully to the cover-point boundary, and then dishing out two more off-side boundaries off the slow bowler Paul Harris.
For example, down-and-out Providian had a charge-off rate of 12.7% in the fourth quarter of 2001.
Zobrist put the Rays up 2-0 on a two-out, two-run double off Andy Pettitte (3-1) in the fifth.
Nix hit a two-out, two-run homer off Verlander's high, hanging changeup and that was enough offense for New York because CC Sabathia pitched seven scoreless innings to help the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 7-0 Sunday.
Two-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was already assured of his place in the knock-out stages but signed off in style, beating Steve Davis 4-1 to make it five wins out of five.
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Lind drew a one-out walk off Phelps in the seventh and Arencibia followed with a drive to center, his second homer of the series.
The Treasury Department is so concerned it got the three biggest U.S. banks to organize a fund to bail out these off-balance sheet holdings.
However, the Department of Regional Development (DRD) has said that most of the work will be carried out during off-peak hours in order to minimise traffic disruption.
Shuck, but the A's tied it in the bottom half on Adam Rosales' two-out single off Jerome Williams after a costly error by Angels first baseman Albert Pujols.
But although there were now only the mandatory four fielders inside the circle, dot balls built pressure and O'Brien finally went big again, only to hole out at long-off.
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That brought Flintoff to the crease, with the 30-year-old surviving an lbw appeal and run-out attempt off his first ball as well as a missed stumping off Rob Ferley, who bowled him two balls later.
In 2003, Stanford University spin-out company Cooligy showed off its Active Micro-Channel Cooling (AMC) technology which allowed fluids to circulate through hundreds of tiny channels on the upper surface of a chip.
Four wickets fell for 12 runs as Salman Butt (23) cut Chigumbura to point while Nasir Jamshed (32), who hit half-centuries in the first two games, holed out to mid-wicket off Mupariwa.
However, Wiranto, another singing ex-general, was still in with a chance of edging Miss Megawati out of the run-off vote, with 22%.
The Panel was nice and bright, even eclipsing our LED-backlit XPS M1330 on maximum settings -- though the screen looked washed out, viewed from off-angles -- and featured smooth action and no perceptible audio sync issues when playing a DVD-quality movie.
On one occasion, Chamara Kapugedara, who was eventually put out of his misery when driving Broad to mid-off, threw his bat out of his hands all the way to square-leg umpire Aleem Dar.
The key moment came at 14-14 in the final set when Schiavone, who had a lengthy medical time-out at 11-10, pulled off a superb volley against her Russian opponent to earn the decisive break.
We don't see any major surprises in specs -- there's a dual-core Tegra 2 1GHz processor, 4.3-inch qHD screen, 8MP rear camera, and 1080p HDMI-out video, to list off the highlights -- although we are excited to see Gingerbread may be in the mix here, indicated by the ever-so-subtle blue bar seen on the phone's screen.
Knowing when to get in--and out--of a sector can pay off big.
The 23-year-old receptionist from north London lost out in a "sing-off" performance against girl group Hope.
Their second innings then got off to the worst possible start with the out-of-form Michael Carberry being caught behind for one off Lewry for the second time in the match.
Wales named an initial 32-man squad for north America tour which was reduced to 26 when four Dragons players - Charteris, Jason Tovey, Lewis Evans and Dan Lydiate - were ruled out because of the Heineken play-off.
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