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...lots of them. On top of $210 billion in new government spending, Obama promises to shackle U.S. businesses with heavy regulation. If he becomes president, he’ll do more than bring change: he’ll force Americans into an economic straitjacket. To “rebuild the middle class,” Obama will resuscitate labor unions with the Employee Free Choice Act. It would allow a union to represent employees without holding a secret-ballot election. Once the union garnered a majority of employees’ signatures on authorization cards, it would automatically become their bargaining...
...successful glacier is also the most remote, meaning that few officials are willing to make the seven-mile hike to see it. One nearer to town has been reduced to a series of dirt pits from neglect and a major flood. Unperturbed, Norphel sees this as a chance to rebuild the perfect showpiece...
...Paul is an ideal face for the franchise. The affable North Carolina native has given money to a New Orleans school, helped raise funds to rebuild homes, and often visits ravaged parts of the city in his off-hours. "He's just like anybody would want their child to be," says Hornets owner George Shinn...
...Having failed to save it, Seoul is planning to restore the monument as quickly as possible: an official at the Cultural Heritage Administration told media it would take about three years and $21 million to rebuild the gate. President-elect Lee Myung Bak has proposed that citizens kick in money for the construction. But until the Namdaemun Gate is rebuilt, its blackened pedestal will remain a reminder of the fragility of Korea's architectural legacy - and a litmus test of just how serious the 5,000-year-old culture is about preserving its remaining historical landmarks...
...process of quietly coming home to Italy - or so the authorities believed. The exiles had good reasons: Gotti was dead and buried in the States; and Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, his successor and lifelong Corleone paesano, are both serving life terms in Italy. They were allegedly about to rebuild their "Old Bridge" between America and Sicily, reestablishing the business and drug trafficking ties between the Sicilian and American mobs. For a while, that relationship had been paramount in the netherworld as the Gambinos reigned supreme in the 1970s and 1980s. Arriving in the early '80s, the exiled Inzerillos were content...