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...With GM and Chrysler nearly bankrupt, Harley Shaiken, a professor of labor relations at the University of California, Berkeley, says UAW President Ron Gettelfinger wants to do all he can to help the automakers, including changing the contract if necessary. But UAW leadership is also angling for a seat on GM's board of directors, according to a posting on the website of UAW Local 2404. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...Note: On Tuesday, Gov. Blagojevich was taken into custody on a U.S. District Court complaint of trying to take advantage of his leverage to appoint a U.S. Senator to fill Barack Obama's seat; it also said the governor tried to coerce the Chicago Tribune into firing staffers critical of the governor, in exchange for "millions of dollars" in assistance from the state of Illinois. The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy this week...
...with his life. This scene, which occurs at the beginning and is repeated near the end, functions as both a visual and musical refrain that emphasizes Milk’s meteoric rise and tragic fall. Much of the film deals with Milk’s multiple bids for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the different campaign tactics he tries. He runs unsuccessfully in 1975 and 1976 and is finally elected in 1977, saying in his recording that, “The movement is the candidate.” He works closely with Cleve Jones (Emile...
Murkowski, Lisa •Palin is told by to forget about trying to win Senate seat...
...Bush is, without a doubt, one of the smartest politicians the beleaguered Republican Party has at its disposal today. Which is why the possibility of his running for Martinez's seat probably shouldn't be such a surprise after all. When a party, to quote Jeb's former-President father, is in the kind of deep doo-doo the GOP stepped into on Nov. 4, it can't afford to let one of its top talents spend any more time taking it easy in Miami...