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...Hyman, a professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics, is skeptical the merger will work or is necessary. While unions need to better coordinate efforts on a global scale, he says, they would be better off working through existing federations. MIT's Kochan, on the other hand, calls those groups "very weak ... perpetual debating societies" with no decision-making power." Hyman doesn't disagree, but says that's mainly because they're short of resources: "Unions are often reluctant to put their money where their mouth...
...Laden really is dying, the news would doubtless be greeted with some ambivalence. On the one hand, his demise is what the U.S. government has been fervently trying to hasten - since before 9/11. But death by kidney disease is not exactly what it had in mind. "Wouldn't that be a tragic situation if, with all this effort, bin Laden died without it happening at the hands of coalition forces?" says one current senior counterterrorism official. Given the reliability of past long-distance diagnoses, however, and the continuing threat al-Qaeda poses around the world, that may be the least...
...tiny member of the coalition, called in mid-June for a parliamentary motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister. Abdullah, who is being blamed for the governing alliance's drubbing in the March elections, is under so much pressure to resign that he recently promised to eventually hand over the reins to Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak...
...currently serving a life sentence for breaking into the home of an Israeli family in 1979 and killing the family's father and one of his daughters. As Kuntar searched the house for more victims that night, the mother, Smadar Haran, hid with her baby daughter, holding a hand over the toddler's mouth to stifle her screams. Kuntar never found the pair, but when Haran finally removed her hand from her daughter's face, she realized, with horror, that she had unwittingly suffocated the girl. While the public argued against Kuntar's return to Lebanon, the widow Haran issued...
...Sunday, the Israeli cabinet shrugged off warnings by its own top military and intelligence advisers and voted by a large majority to carry out a prisoner exchange with Hizballah. Reliable military sources told TIME that in exchange for Regev and Goldwasser, Israel agreed to hand over 15 Lebanese prisoners - including 10 Hizballah fighters killed during the 2006 war, four jailed Hizballah members and one Lebanese-Druze murderer serving a life sentence in Israel. The deal was brokered by a senior German diplomat with experience in similar prisoner exchanges, sources say. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also confirmed on Sunday...