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...keeping with romantic-comedy tradition, there is one special widower living in New Ulm. Handsome and hirsute Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is the local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only...
...back to address those same questions." Few here have clear plans on how to recover. Folks who years ago dropped out of college to take jobs at Caterpillar - jobs they assumed would take them into retirement - are strongly considering returning to get their degrees. Doty offers this advice to union members who have been ordered to take one- or two-week furloughs: Go on a fishing or ski trip, just to clear your mind...
...mammoth demonstrations were designed to send a warning of discontentment to the conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Workers in France are angry about what they see as insufficient government efforts to protect both public and private sector jobs. People are also upset that union and employee concerns over stagnating salaries and slumping purchasing power were ignored when the government drew up its $34 billion economic stimulus package. Many remain concerned over the lack of any real effort to impose tighter regulations on banks and finance groups in France and abroad, despite Sarkozy's rousing call last year to "moralize...
...Gore's position was echoed across the Atlantic today, as the European Union presented its own negotiating position for the Copenhagen talks. E.U. Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimos called for all 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to take on mandatory carbon cuts. The OECD includes such nations as South Korea and Mexico, which were exempted from Kyoto targets. Dimos also promised billions in aid to developing countries as an enticement to agree to a new deal at Copenhagen - though in a possible sign of how difficult such programs might be in a global recession...
...dictatorship was expelled from the Organization of American States in 1962 at Washington’s request, and Cuban-American relations have been officially nonexistent for even longer. While this policy of economic and political isolation may have made sense during the Cold War—when the Soviet Union was actively supporting the Castro regime through military and economic aid—the policies currently in place are anachronistic and actually harmful to regional stability. Nor has the international community been silent in the condemnation of the status quo. Since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly has voted nearly...