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...Labor Day. The cost of a barrel of crude will move up if there is strong evidence that the demand in China is growing. Ironically if there are signs of a sharply improving economic picture in the U.S., oil could move up more than most traders expect. (See pictures...
...defeats stem in part from a record of poor governance in the states where they draw most of their support; in West Bengal, a move by the ruling Communists to take land from peasants for private industrial projects led to a voter backlash in May's elections. Party insiders expect the outcome of state assembly elections in 2011 will end their already thin grip on power, and a growing schism between CPI-M politicians pushing for capitalist reforms and the more orthodox intellectual elite in New Delhi have led many anti-Communist critics to gleefully prophesize the party's disintegration...
...hint as to how effective the U.N. might be, talk to the Russians. Moscow is "concerned" - not outraged - by today's test. Don't expect much, in other words, from the Security Council, even if the test is determined to be as direct a violation as possible of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, which calls on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program. The Chinese, like Obama, desperately want the North Koreans to return to the negotiating table in Beijing, where the so-called six-party talks were held during the Bush years. But Beijing may be coming to the reluctant...
...Most School Committee members said they expect that Young’s first priority will be improving the district’s middle school education...
...think it’s a terrible mistake for a superintendent to come into a job and expect to change a whole system according to his or her own preferences,” he said. “The right approach is to take some time to learn about the culture of the schools and the community. It’s not about tearing things down and creating something brand...