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Organized labor often complains of its treatment at the hands of corporate America, but its accusations pale in comparison to those made recently by the widows of Colombian mine workers in an Alabama courtroom. During a two-week trial, a Birmingham jury weighed charges that the local Drummond Coal Company bore responsibility for the murders of three union leaders who represented workers at its Colombian mine - the world's largest open pit mine. The widows lost their suit last week. But the case, and issues at the heart of it, are far from resolved: an appeal is all but certain...
...farewell to the series, Deathly Hallows is everything fans of Harry Potter could hope for. It does not reach the lyrical high-watermarks of the series - everyone has their favorites, mine being the final watercolor mourning scenes in Order of the Phoenix, with the mirror, the ghosts and, of course, Luna Lovegood. ("She's great, isn't she?" Ron says of Luna in Deathly Hallows. "Always good value.") But then again, this isn't a lyrical interlude, this is the grand finale. It calls for big battles and high body counts, force majeure and not legerdemain, and Rowling leaves...
...this, sadly, is Biden's substantive liability. Democrats want to hear only one sentence about Iraq: I'll get out as soon as possible. They're not so interested in the nuances of partition plans and mine-resistant vehicles. They are, as always, besotted with domesticity. Their iconic voter is Michelle Griffin, in tears over health insurance, and, yes, it is time we did something about that. But Biden's message-that foreign policy is complicated, that Iraq and its consequences can't just be wished away, that a supple alternative to Republican overseas bullying must be found...
...proposed Iraq solution: partition of the country into a loose federation of three states, which, he hopes, would defuse the regional crisis. In defense of his position as the only Democrat to vote to continue funding the war, he offered the best of all possible reasons-to speed lifesaving, mine-resistant armored vehicles to the war zone...
...made mistakes," McCain told New Hampshire Public Radio. "The responsibility is mine. I'm the candidate." And as the candidate, he insisted that he is in the White House race to stay, despite the fact that his operation has blown through nearly all of the $24 million it raised and has been forced to shake up its top management, drastically cut its staff and narrow its focus to winning in a few early states...