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...central issue the union fought for-undiminished pensions not just for current workers, but also for the new hires in the future-appears to have been conceded by the MTA going into the new talks. It is still unclear which pound of flesh the union will have to give in return. And while many transit workers seemed uneasy about calling off the strike without an inked contract, they seem willing to follow their leadership on faith...
...unclear whether the case will be appealed, however. Voters in Dover threw out eight of the nine pro-intelligent design school board members in the regular election last month, installing a slate of solidly anti-intelligent design candidates. Those school board members have given conflicting statements as to whether they would allow the case to continue to the appeals courts in hopes of making it a national test case to ban intelligent design from the classroom...
...Kerry towards revisions of sections of the Patriot Act that they find problematic. “We’re holding out for stronger safeguards,” Casey said. Casey added that what action the Senate will take on the Patriot Act in the next few days is unclear. Some senators support temporarily renewing the Patriot Act to make time for substantive debate, while others hope to vote on a version of the act that resembles the one that the Senate passed unanimously this summer. But the House, which Burden characterized as more partisan and extreme...
...latter charge has been levied at Woodward in the past month by such press gadflies as Frank Rich ’71, the New York Times columnist; Jay Rosen, former chair of the journalism department at New York University; and even Nora Ephron, Bernstein’s ex-wife.Also unclear is how much can be gleaned from Woodward’s comment about Novak’s source. Woodward is widely hailed for protecting the identity of his most famous source, W. Mark Felt or “Deep Throat,” in the decades after Watergate...
...living room foreground from the dining room background, allowing the juxtaposition of divergent actions in the two rooms, so the audience’s attention can easily shift back and forth between the two. The precise physical and mental spaces in which the play takes place are made more unclear by a staging that is self-consciously stylized. The actors overemphasize emotions and often dramatically shift moods with little or no cause. The middle sister Masha (Molly Ward) especially exaggerates her small joys and sorrows. Such stylized acting, along with the dramatic lighting that illuminates much of the play, creates...