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...Musgrove says he may have to veto the whole budget and start again. The governor tried that tactic last year, and it backfired spectacularly when the legislature overrode him. It was a humiliating defeat, especially for a Democratic governor whose party holds a large majority in the state house. That's just one indication of how ugly the battle over Medicaid has turned...
...said he agreed that pursuing change through individual departments could be an effective tactic...
...Although Liaoyang and Daqing provide the most dramatic examples of organizing, workers in Zhengzhou over the past two years built a network of activists that succeeded, for a while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang Ren is one of the leaders. Now in his 50s with ample girth and a wide-open face, he could have stepped out of a 1960s propaganda poster. For three decades he labored at the Power Generation Equipment Plant, a money-losing factory with half-century-old machinery, that...
...weeks Ariel Sharon launched a massive military offensive he hoped would pummel the Palestinians into submission. The tactic backfired: Not only did the assault fail to stop Palestinian attacks deep inside Israel, but the heavy Palestinian death toll also finally forced the U.S. to resume its stalled mediation efforts. That mediation prompted Israel's Monday retreat - Palestinians had insisted there was nothing to discuss while Israeli troops remained in Palestinian Authority territory...
...bookstores have sold record numbers of books on both Islam and the role it has played in the crises of the Middle East. Americans everywhere have struggled to come to terms with the philisophical motivations of any group who would engage in a war in which the main battle tactic is to kill oneself and as many people as possible at the same time. Essentially, when the absurdness of this idea it hit home, Americans hit the book store...