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When negotiators shared details of the deal with writers Friday, many assumed they would be back at their laptops Monday. But WGA West President Patric Verrone told the more than 3,000 writers in attendance Saturday night that the strike would end only after they voted to approve the contract. With a vote of the WGA's 10,000 members likely to take until Tuesday, that means writers wouldn't return to work until Wednesday at the earliest...
...file evangelicals are just as sick of their own "leaders" as they are of the political arena in general. This actually represents a return to normal: evangelicals have historically been suspicious of getting too deeply involved in worldly matters, preferring a focus on individual salvation. So their willingness to vote their hearts with Huck and leave the rest to the Lord is perfectly normal behavior...
...Evangelical voters are a lot like American voters," he said wryly. "They have a funny way of deciding for themselves who to vote for. Don't make the mistake of equating the impact of a Richard Land or a Dobson with the head of the AFL-CIO. We don't have that kind of authority, don't aspire to it and the people in the movement wouldn't allow it anyway. Only a candidate can deliver the voters to himself. And it is social conservative voters who'll decide the person for whom they're going to vote...
...government is now pushing through a constitutional amendment that simply states that "no one can be deprived of their right to higher education." It is expected to easily garner enough votes to pass in a final parliamentary vote Saturday. All eyes will then be on the Constitutional Court, which could decide that the move undermines secularism - an inviolable constitutional principle of modern Turkey...
...Saturday, the daily Le Figaro published a leaked private UMP poll of Neuilly voters projecting a Martinon defeat in the first round of balloting to a quixotic local independent Conservative candidate. The high probability that backers of candidates eliminated in the first stage would vote to defeat Martinon in the second, Le Figaro contended, meant "Sarkozy has hardly any choice but to pull Martinon" from the race. The risk of not doing so, the paper quoted a presidential advisor explaining, was taking a humiliating "slap in the face." Mindful of that peril, Neuilly's UMP brass teamed up with Jean...