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...Brussels, at the European Trade Union Institute, economist Andrew Watt draws some uncomfortable historical parallels. "There was some idea that the financial sector was immune," he says. "It's like pinning your hopes on anything, whether it's textiles in the north of England or the car industry around Birmingham. It expands for a while and then it takes a nasty knock...
...either country will take revenge on incumbent parties for their part in the mess or will shy away from younger challengers, preferring to put their trust in political veterans. It's the second scenario that Ed Cox, who heads up McCain's campaign in New York, told delegates in Birmingham he expects will give his candidate the edge. "This is a time for experience," he said...
...ructions in Washington and Wall Street stole the headlines from the Conservatives' annual conference, held this year in Birmingham, Britain's unlovely second city. The Labour party, divided and unpopular, had held their own yearly get-together the week before. It managed a show of unity behind beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown, securing a boost in the polls that halved the Tories' lead from 20 points to 10. Cameron and his colleagues planned to use their conference to win back the initiative and the limelight. That chance was torpedoed when the House of Representatives rejected the bailout package on Sept...
...sainthood - will require proof of an additional miracle achieved through the intercession of Newman's spirit. The Vatican announced plans this month to move Newman's remains from a small grave site in the central English town of Rednal to a specially built sarcophagus in the Oratory Church of Birmingham, where, officials say, they will be more accessible to venerating faithful...
...Father Paul Chavasse of Birmingham, who has led the cause for Cardinal Newman's beatification, said moving the remains has nothing to do with St. John. "Part of the established procedure prior to a beatification requires that, if the body of the new 'Beatus' exists, then it must be exhumed, inspected and transferred to a place of honor befitting the person's new status," Chavasse told the Vatican-sponsored Zenit news agency. "As a great man of the Church and devoted to the saints himself, Cardinal Newman would have been the first to insist on obeying a request...