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...bottom line for consumers: next time you rush to pay your mortgage on time, mail your phone-bill payment as well...
...cast of Mennonites, whose cowboy hats, plain speaking and ease in inhabiting their sagebrush environment give them the stature of western-movie archetypes. They support the filmmaker's genius for sanctifying each moment: the milking of cows and harvesting of grain, the children being washed in a stream, a rush through a cornfield for a sweetly illicit tryst, the sobbing of a woman in the forest in the rain. When melodrama intrudes, it has the power of inevitable tragedy - and then of redemption...
...attack, by two gunmen on motorcycles in the middle of morning-rush-hour traffic, was brazen even by the standards of Sri Lanka. The country has suffered through more than 25 years of war between the government and a Tamil separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which pioneered the use of suicide bombers. Wickrematunge wasn't far from his home in Colombo South when he was approached sometime between 10 and 11 a.m. by the two gunmen, who blocked his car and shot him in the head and chest. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where...
...Senate will be devoid of black representation - a fact that Burris' presence would change, which Blagojevich was surely mindful of when he made the surprising move to make an appointment. In recent days, African-American leaders in both Chicago and Congress have argued for Burris' admission, with Representative Bobby Rush calling the Senate the "last bastion of plantation politics." After initially dismissing the appointment out of hand, Dems have been put on the defensive, and they are now quick to say that if Burris were to be appointed by Lieut. Governor Pat Quinn, they would accept Burris with open arms...
...Rush, Bobby •race card - in a country that just elected a black President - is incongruously played...