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...last three weeks of picketing and chanting in Hollywood has had a certain period charm. As it turns out, writers dress a lot like steelworkers. When the writers and producers resume talks Nov. 26 to try to end a strike that has shut down hit shows like Grey's Anatomy and 30 Rock and big-budget movies like The Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons, the major sticking point will be pay for work distributed via new media. Such a contemporary issue calls for updating strike techniques...
David Letterman's writers are delivering strike-related jokes and photos to the late night humor-starved on lateshowwritersonstrike.com. "The collateral damage from the strike keeps building," says one would-be monologue entry from writer Bill Scheft. "Yesterday on the picket line, the writers chanted 'Hey, hey, ho, ho...' and Don Imus got fired again...
EMILIE ROSENBLATT, Columbia University senior, on the end of a 10-day student hunger strike. The action was aimed at reforming the curriculum to include more ethnic studies and preventing university expansion into Harlem...
...RAIL STRIKE...
Estimated cost per day to France's rail authority of the transit union's strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension-reform plans...