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...failure of the Bush Administration's final effort to persuade NATO to fast-track membership for Georgia and Ukraine. Russia is fiercely opposed to what it sees as the Alliance's "encroachment" into the territories of the old Russian empire, and when the U.S. had pushed in April for the adoption of a formal membership process for the two countries, the effort was rebuffed by France, Germany and Italy, among others. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried again last week week, with a round of intense lobbying ahead of what would be her valedictory NATO summit, but once again...
...Magnetic,” released this past September. “Chinese Democracy” is the bastard brother of Portishead’s “Third,” another album that fans waited over a decade for. “Third,” released in April, seduces the listener with labyrinthine tracks, sounding like pared-down, refined versions of the trip-hop trio’s old songs. (Metallica also scaled down their sound for “Death Magnetic.”) Guns N’ Roses has taken the opposite tack as Portishead...
...Richard B. Freeman, an economics professor who focuses on labor issues, said it was “absolutely likely” that Bush’s NLRB decision would be repealed. President-elect Barack Obama championed organized labor in his campaign, saying in April that “it’s time we had a president who doesn’t choke saying the word ‘union,’” according to remarks on Obama’s Web site...
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...firm will then recruit prospective candidates and submit a list of semi-finalists to the committee in mid-March, when the list of finalists will be selected. The final decision is scheduled to be made in mid-April...