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...media reports, Patrick is slated to announce his choice as early as tomorrow. The decision has garnered heightened scrutiny and pressure from Congressional Democrats who fear that a Senate majority without a vote from Kennedy’s former seat may not be sufficient to pass health-care reform...
...Massachusetts Senate approved a bill yesterday to authorize Patrick to appoint an interim Senator until a permanent successor can be chosen by special election. In what was seen as an effort to bolster Democratic efforts to pass a health-care reform package, Kennedy requested in the weeks before his death that the state legislature act to amend the law to allow for an interim successor to be put in place immediately after his death...
...died of brain cancer last month. News of the impending appointment gained widespread attention—especially among some Congressional Democrats—as the move to speedily fill Kennedy’s seat was seen as a concerted effort to ensure the passage of a health-care reform package...
...sweeping exhibition running until January 2010 at the Stadtmuseum, www.museen-dresden.de, forms the centerpiece of anniversary commemorations. Entitled "No Violence! Revolution in Dresden," it tells of the city's crucial role as the first locality in which people's representatives - the so-called Group of 20 - were able to initiate reform talks with the ruling Socialist Unity Party, in the person of then mayor Wolfgang Berghofer. And in Berlin itself, the highlight of numerous events and displays comes on Nov. 9 with a Festival of Freedom at the Brandenburg Gate, www.mauerfall09.de, which will include the symbolic collapse of a 1.2-mile...
...Zelaya's return is designed simply to "put up obstacles" to the Nov. 29 presidential balloting, whose results the U.S. has threatened not to recognize if Zelaya is not restored to office by then. Micheletti - citing Zelaya's disregard for a Supreme Court order not to hold a constitutional-reform referendum this year that the coup leaders say provoked his removal by armed soldiers - instead called on Brazil to "respect the judicial order handed down against Mr. Zelaya and deliver him to the competent authorities of Honduras" for arrest. Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim refused the request...