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...keeping with romantic-comedy tradition, there is one special widower living in New Ulm. Handsome and hirsute Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is the local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only...
...Tuesday, Rickie Doty, president of the UAW Local 974 here, sat in his office and carefully considered the future. Just one day earlier, Caterpillar Inc., his employer of 35 years and one of the world's leading purveyors of construction equipment, announced it would shed some 20,000 jobs - nearly one-fifth of its global workforce. The announcement just made things official: the bulk of that astonishing figure is already off the Peoria company's books, including some 2,500 management-level personnel who accepted buyouts in recent weeks and 8,000 people who worked on contract or through agencies...
...local UAW's January meeting was filled with Caterpillar workers asking the assembled panel of experts for tips on how to retrain themselves for new jobs. At next month's meeting, Doty says, "we'll probably have those people back to address those same questions." Few here have clear plans on how to recover. Folks who years ago dropped out of college to take jobs at Caterpillar - jobs they assumed would take them into retirement - are strongly considering returning to get their degrees. Doty offers this advice to union members who have been ordered to take one- or two-week...
...more prominently in newspapers than on the fiction shelf. "I am deep in my heart apolitical in my writing," he says. "There are plenty of soapboxes one can stand upon, but one of them is not a short story." In the world of In Other Rooms, all politics is local: the never-ending battle against corruption, the violence that erupts over a cherished motorcycle, the arguments between newlyweds whose outlooks on life prove crushingly incompatible...
...meeting with U.S. officials two weeks ago, local Kurdish leaders expressed concern that the forces sent by Baghdad and the Kurdish government to provide election security may not depart after the votes are counted. "I'm worried the Iraqi army won't leave. Then the Peshmerga won't leave. Then we will have a militarized city," the Kurdish mayor of Khanaqin, who asked to remain unnamed, warned. "What if they fought...