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...described by Mueller, will shift its focus to "prevention above all else." The emphasis will move from law enforcement to intelligence and counter-terrorism, and agents will be reassigned from domestic units (where the emphasis is on drug-related and white-collar crime) to ones dealing in terror prevention. The director also wants to add 900 new employees, 500 of whom would work as analysts. This is a sea change for the embattled agency - and an answer to critics who maintain it has wasted its manpower on following up traditional crime rather than preventing new waves of terror. But will...
...elections. State Attorney General Mike Fisher is the unopposed Republican choice. But he's considered an underdog to both Democratic candidates, Bob Casey Jr. and Ed Rendell. The two Democrats are better known. Casey is the son of a former governor and has the support of upstate blue-collar Democrats. He's pro-labor and pro-life. Ed Rendell is the pragmatic former Philadelphia mayor who appeals to the state's New Democrats and independents. These two candidates have been locked in a dead heat for months. And no matter who wins their May 21st primary, that nominee is predicted...
SHOULD CLERGY WHO REASSIGN A SUSPECTED PEDOPHILE BE PROSECUTED? I believe so, yes. A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear...
...Fewer than half of the factories in eastern Germany are under the national wage contracts. "It's a concern for us," says Klaus Mehrens, head of IG Metall in the western state of Hesse. The union represents both professional and manual workers at covered businesses, although membership for white-collar employees is only about 50% compared with 75% for blue-collar workers. IG Metall is trying to expand its ranks by branching out into service industries, "but I can't say we've been very successful," Mehrens concedes. Even if there is relative labor peace, the specter of lost jobs...
...inspiration for the narrator is Budbill himself, who hails from a blue-collar background, but has the resume of an intellectual. “I have this odd sort of love-hate relationship with the working class,” he conceded...