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...Senate were to pass the resolution, it would almost certainly pass the House - where leading Democrats like Barney Frank are pushing for stringent, spelled-out conditions - and then go to the President's desk for a veto, Democratic sources said. Even if Bush can do the honors before he leaves office, Obama would still have to take office as both chambers attempt overrides of the veto. Such a situation might force Obama to expend some of his political capital on fixing the holdover problem, and it could drain support for what he prefers to be concentrating his time and energy...
...perros, Babel) and Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy). Yet Reygadas, 37, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take...
...labor office reported that in December unemployment rose by a seasonally adjusted 18,000, nearly twice the level predicted in a poll of 30 economists by the news agency Bloomberg. It was the first increase in joblessness since February 2006. "The economic crisis has reached the labor market," said Frank-Juergen Weise, head of the Labor Agency. On Thursday, the government reported that German exports, the main driver of the country's economy, plunged 10.6% in November from the month before, the largest monthly decline since 1969. Joerg Kraemer, a Commerzbank economist, says the data support a bleak outlook...
...Frank Casanova, a resident of Naples, Fla., whose grandfather emigrated from the Canary Islands to Cuba, is applying for Spanish citizenship for the same reason. "I was born in Cuba, but I never felt Cuban; I felt Canarian," he says. "I even preferred Canary's music over salsa. It's something you feel in your blood." (See pictures of Cuban musicians...
Commander Frank Borman was very clear about the fact that no one aboard his spacecraft would be getting drunk on the way back from the moon. NASA had packed a couple of miniatures of brandy aboard Apollo 8 for the occasion - it wasn't enough for three grown men to get anything close to tipsy, but it was a couple of minis more than any crew had ever taken into space before, and when you're piloting a ship that is screaming to Earth at 25,000 miles per hour and you have to hit a narrow atmospheric corridor just...