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...movie career? His template might be Michael J. Fox, whose role in the Back to the Future films vaulted him from the Family Ties comedy series to lead roles in movies. Fox had a decent run for about a decade, but none of his projects, mostly light comedies, came close to matching the clout of the Robert Zemeckis trilogy, and he returned to TV, his more congenial medium, for six years of Spin City. Efron will have to radiate a little more danger if he doesn't want to be the cute young married guy on a CBS sitcom before...
...future in these final weeks of negotiation will be decided by old men who have retired from years of blue collar living pitted against old men in business suits who have legions of attorneys trying to redeem their bonds at close to face value. The interests of each side are precious enough that neither side is likely to back down...
...eliminating productivity bonuses due this year and next, to changes in the way overtime pay is computed, and to the elimination of the traditional cost-of-living allowances as well as to cuts in the special supplemental unemployment benefits for employees with less than 20 years seniority. Sources close to the negotiations tell TIME that the union has not yet agreed to the changes in funding Chrysler's health-care trust, which was established...
...majority of drug related killings in Mexico. With gangs of gunmen using them to spray hundreds of bullets at their targets in ambushes, the weapons are also linked to the deaths of more than 100 civilians last year, many of whom simply had the misfortune of driving or walking close to a hit. However, in 2004 a U.S. ban on sale of assault weapons was repealed and a 2008 Supreme Court decision reinforced the second amendment, making a future ban even more difficult...
...draft a new bill to allow Mexicans to work legally in the United States, Obama was also evasive. "I voted twice for comprehensive immigration reform that would have provided a pathway for legalization and improvement of the orderly path of migrants into the United States," he said. "We came close to getting that kind of a reform done several years ago and then it became politicized. My whole goal is to remove the politics out of this and take a very practical commonsense approach." An estimated six million of the 11 million Mexicans currently working in the United States have...