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...administering to his back pain. And then, the next thing that happens is there is a 911 call ... Then, of course, the doctor did not confer with the family ... He didn't sign the death certificate. He didn't talk with the coroner. And then he was missing in action. Finally, when he surfaced, he surfaced with a lawyer. All these are rather bizarre actions. There may be plausible answers, but we don't know." (See TIME's video tribute to Jackson's 50th birthday...
...politics, supporters of the ouster have denounced Zelaya as a communist who planned to turn the nation of sweatshops and banana plantations into a Soviet-style fortress. One of his worst crimes, allege the self-proclaimed patriots, was raising the minimum wage to $290 a month. "With this action, he declared war on business," says entrepreneur Jesus Sabat, 23, as he waves the nation's blue-and-white flag during the demonstration...
...negotiations stagnated, prompting students to take more drastic actions to support the workers and Union. Groups such as the Student Labor Action Movement and the Stand for Security Coalition organized extensive protests and even a nine-day hunger strike, which resulted in the hospitalization of two undergraduates, to encourage the University to intervene in the contract negotiations. The activism prompted University human resource officials to seek an expedited audit of AlliedBarton to ensure that the subcontractor met the University's hiring and wage parity requirements for in-house and outsourced workers...
...budget challenges caused by the decline in the endowment payout have forced us to take this action," Ellwood wrote, noting that a projected 20 percent reduction in the payout over the next two years, combined with other revenue declines, created a $9 million shortfall in the School's budget...
...will Sotomayor sway Kennedy? Goldstein is skeptical when it comes to discrimination issues, pointing out that Kennedy has never sided against the government in a discrimination case. And Sotomayor will not be the only minority member on the court. "Justice Thomas gives him cover to be against affirmative action, and he has been," says the former Kennedy clerk. (See the top 10 Supreme Court nomination battles...