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MILWAUKEE Gathering strength, Sen. Barack Obama collected a key labor endorsement and coaxed away one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s delegates on Friday, at the same time he criticized his rival for supporting legislation harmful to workers.”Her supporting NAFTA didn’t give jobs to the American people,” Obama said of the free trade agreement implemented [...]

NATIONAL POLITICS Chavez wants to improve United States image
Having failed his bold but scary attempt to make himself president-for-life in Venezuela, President Chavez now seeks to guarantee his legacy and his voice in world affairs by offering, via CITGO, 132 million gallons of free heating oil to our poor and American Indian tribes. Nothing is [...]

NEW YORK Psychologist Kathryn Faughey didn’t sound worried about her safety in the hours before she was butchered in her office, said a friend who exchanged e-mails with her that evening.On her mind, though, was another member of their circle of guitar enthusiasts, a man she had offered to help with personal problems. Faughey [...]

SALT LAKE CITY A private equity group and a Middle East partner are coming to the rescue of SCO Group, a Utah company that made headlines for its legal assault against IBM and the open-source Linux operating system.SCO - which since 1995 has claimed to control licensing and development of the Unix operating system [...]

Some quotes from the Senate Banking Committee’s hearing on the economy, with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission:—”In part as the result of the developments in financial markets, the outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months and the downside risks [...]

BEIJING China has banned video and audio products containing elements of horror or the supernatural in a bid to protect the “psychological health” of minors.In an order posted on its Web site, China’s General Administration of Press and Publication said all existing products were to be pulled off the market and all hints of [...]

BOULDER, Colo. The man nominated to lead the state’s flagship university is an oilman, not an academic. In a sea of Ph.Ds, he has only a bachelor’s degree. But he does offer this: A reputation as a formidable fundraiser.Bruce Benson’s nomination may be bitterly dividing this 52,000-student, three-campus institution, but it is a sign [...]

WASHINGTON A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet.Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced the bill to promote the principle, known as “Net neutrality,” of treating all Internet traffic equally.Markey, who [...]

American playwright and director Neil LaBute has a disturbing
imagination. He has a talent for creating characters who are worse
than they need to be: the otherwise upstanding Mormons who commit
murder in Bash (the show that got LaBute kicked out of the
Mormon church); the destructive relationships between car
passengers in Autobahn; the psychotic art student in
The Shape Of [...]

Karl Marx was a devoted chess player, if an ordinary
one. After the failed European revolutions of 1848, he lived in
London where, to his wife’s frustration, he would disappear for
days at a time on chess binges with his fellow emigres. A friend
and regular opponent recalled that Marx brought to his game “the
same barely suppressed aggression that [...]