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Feb 8

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Feb 7

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I ain’t saying he’s a grave-digger

JEFFREY TOOBIN goes where lesser legal pundits dare not, and asks who might replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 73-year-old Supreme Court justice who was hospitalised for pancreatic cancer this week. As Mrs Ginsburg is the only woman on the bench, Mr Toobin nominates only women.

• Janet Napolitano, the new secretary of homeland security, who once represented the woman who accused Clarence Thomas (still in the court) of sexual harrassment.

• Jennifer Granholm, governor of Michigan, and a former state attorney general, who “fits a similar profile”.

• Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals judge in New York who’d be the first Hispanic justice.

• Diane Wood, a federal appeals judge in Chicago.

• Elena Kagan, the new solicitor general plucked from the presidency deanship of Harvard Law School.

One of the big surprises of the Bush presidency was how relatively easily his Supreme Court justices were confirmed. John Roberts was so obviously brilliant that he could inspire only token opposition. (Lucky for him, reading the presidential oath was not part of the application process.) Samuel Alito was more controversial, but senators had trouble proving he was so outrageous that he didn’t deserve a full Senate vote. While it seemed, for a decade, that the thorny confirmations of Clarence Thomas and (the rejected) Robert Bork were the new norm, it seems like the acrimony and campaigning of new court appointments have both simmered down. Mr Obama will have his first test of this sometime soon, as gloomy as it is to think about.

Feb 7

Red Cross ‘incites S Lanka panic’

The Sri Lankan government has accused the Red Cross of inciting panic over the military operation against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north.

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A spokesman said the ICRC had ordered 35,000 body bags for the battle zone to create what he called a fear psychosis among the international community.

The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed a routine order of body bags but nowhere near that number.

It said its office in Colombo had been attacked by protesters.

Meanwhile the army says it is closing in on remaining Tamil Tiger positions, confining them to an area of about 200 sq km (124 sq miles).

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Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said: “There is no need for 35,000 body bags or for that matter 3,500.

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“They may cancel the order tomorrow. But first they want to create a fear psychosis in the eyes of the international community.”

ICRC spokeswoman Sophie Romanens told AFP: “We help in the transfer of bodies of combatants across the front lines and for this we need body bags, but the number we have ordered is far, far less than 35,000.”

She said the main Red Cross office in Colombo had been attacked on Friday.

“They were shouting slogans and pelting stones. No-one was hurt fortunately, but some windows were broken.”

The Red Cross has said hundreds of civilians have been killed in the fighting in the north-east.

Correspondents say the protesters were complaining that the Red Cross was favouring the Tamil Tigers.

Aid agencies - most recently the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) - continue to remain concerned about the plight of thousands of civilians who it is feared are trapped between the two sides.

The WFP said on Friday that 250,000 people are facing a food crisis. It says that it has not been able to get a supply convoy to the war affected areas since the middle of January.

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation said more than 2,500 civilians had recently managed to flee the diminishing area the rebels still control and another 3,000 were “waiting to come over.”

A government spokesman said that UN chief Ban Ki-moon telephoned President Mahinda Rajapakse to discuss the plight of the non-combatants. It said he was given an “assurance” they would not be harassed.

Meanwhile, troops are near Puthukudiyiruppu village, which officials describe as the last major rebel position.

The BBC’s Ethirajan Anbarasan says that if the army captures Puthukudiyiruppu, the rebels will be confined only to small villages, coastal areas and jungles, where close-quarter fighting will be intense.

Senior Tiger leaders have not commented

Feb 6

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islamabad, feb 6 the outlawed jamaat-ud-dawa (jud), the bloc organisation of the farm out blamed owing the mumbai attack, has resumed its activities, with thousands of its supporters entrancing quarter in a snap out of it in lahore at the beck the banner of a imaginative outfit floated by its leaders.

Kiran Karnik appointed Satyam chairman

a day after satyam veteran a s murty was named the company’s ceo, the government on friday announced the appointment of nasscom past-president kiran karnik as chairman of its six-member board. the announcement was made here by corporate affairs minister p c gupta.

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Feb 5

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Photo of the Day: Flying Dumplings

During a dumpling-making party I held at my apartment last weekend (featuring Michele Humes’ recipe), I got this neat shot of my friend Greg as he pan-fried the dumplings.* If you squint a little you can kind of pretend that the dumplings are flying out of the pan like a flock of birds. …Use your imagination, people.

* Some dumplings may have fallen on the floor shortly after this photo was taken.

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Feb 4

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What to Download: New Music Today

Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores. So I take a spin through each week’s music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Here are today’s selections:

music for the tv: when i come up with of the fray i can’t help but associate them with the golden era of grey’s anatomy. so maybe that’s why, despite receiving mixed reviews, i’m keeping an open persuasion about their newest cd following the breakout success of that grey’s song “how to save a vim.” nothing too unique usual on here, but “you institute me” is demonstrative and “never nearly never” is a mellifluous tail find.

idol success: remember when melinda doolittle was on american idol and every single meanwhile she sang the judges were all, “you are perfect”? i’m pretty sure they said that every single time. anyway, every now her head album is outside and critics think she’s pretty great too. check out some of her soulful tracks including “fundamental things” and “wonderful”.

One more up next, so read more.

explosion punk fun: i remember hearing the song “face down” on the radio and it reminded me of the colourless ghastly t’s track “hey there delilah” in terms of its earnest acoustic rockness that i can’t help but embrace. i never looked up who sang it but it’s a bandeau from florida called the red jumpsuit apparatus and they must a unexplored album out that is similarly infectious. i downloaded “pull me back” and “you better pray.”

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Feb 3

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Suicide bomber strikes in Uruzgan police station

Twenty-one Afghan police were killed and seven more were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his vest at a training center for police reservists in the town of Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.

The suicide bomber penetrated the training center’s security by dressing as a policeman, Radio Netherlands reported. The bomber then detonated his suicide vest among a crowd of policemen. Several policemen were seriously wounded and the blast damaged several buildings.

The Taliban took credit for the suicide attack. The Taliban have stepped up attacks on the Afghan police as they are poorly armed and not as well trained as the Afghan Army and Coalition forces. An estimated 720 Afghan policemen were killed during the last six months of 2008. Most were killed in frontal attacks, Afghanistan’s interior ministry reported.

The attack on the Tarin Kot police training facility is the latest in a series of strikes against Afghan police and intelligence headquarters. On Dec. 4, 2008, a three-man suicide team stormed the Khost provincial headquarters of Afghanistan’s intelligence service. Six intelligence and police officials were killed and another seven were wounded.

Taliban suicide teams struck at security headquarters in southern Afghanistan on two consecutive days in September 2008. On Sept. 6, a Taliban suicide bomber penetrated a secure government building in the southwestern Afghanistan province of Nimroz and detonated his vest. The attack killed six people, including Nimroz province’s intelligence chief and his 20-year-old son.

The next day two Taliban suicide bombers entered a police headquarters in Kandahar province and searched for a senior police general in charge of border security at the Spin Boldak crossing point. Six policemen were killed and 37 were wounded, including the general, in the bombings.

NATO and the US are looking to fill the security vacuum in the south and east, and areas around Kabul. The US will double its forces, while NATO and the Afghan government are creating the Afghan Public Protection Force, which are local militias patterned after the Awakening in Iraq. The US is slated to deploy four combat brigades, or an estimated 30,000 troops, to Afghanistan next summer. A fifth brigade devoted to training Afghan forces may also be sent by the end of the summer.

The Afghan Public Protection Force program has already begun, according to Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan’s Interior Minister. “After training they will have the responsibility of protecting the people, providing security for the highways, schools, clinics and other government institutions,” Atmar told The Associated Press. Atmar declined to say where the program has begun, but officials told the AP the program will begin in the Taliban-infested province of Wardak, just south of Kabul.

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Feb 2

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Union workers at Dover Chemical on strike

Dover Chemical Corp. and Teamsters Local 92 failed to reach a new five-year labor agreement Sunday and negotiations are at an impasse. The impasse came after a two-month process where both sides presented their views on several critical issues, according to company President Dwain S. Colvin.“I am very disappointed that we could not come to terms with our hourly work force for a new agreement,” Colvin said in a news release. “We have been struggling as a company and some of the language contained in the old agreement has been hurting our ability to compete in the chemical industry.“The framework of the previous agreement was forged during the 1970s and 1980s and did not account for the intense global competition we face today. The company has been seeking an agreement that reflects today’s high-tech business of chemistry and enables it to react more quickly to market dynamics. The failure to achieve such an agreement jeopardizes the long-term sustainability of the company.”The previous four-year contract was set to expire Sunday at 12:01 a.m. After negotiations were conducted again compra viagra online on Saturday, the company agreed to extend the contract to Sunday at 10:30 a.m. to allow the 108 members of the union bargaining unit to vote on a new proposal. The vote was scheduled for Sunday at 9 a.m., Tom Freeman, vice president of operations, told The T-R Saturday.Colvin said the new proposal included a focus on worker training.“We are continuing to upgrade our operations, and our work force needs to be trained to operate and maintain today’s high-tech equipment,” he said. “The new agreement, as proposed by the company, would allow us to focus on improving the skills of our current employees as well as the ability to bring new skill sets into the hourly work force.“Our hourly employees are among the highest paid workers in Tuscarawas County. Under our proposals, no hourly employee would take a wage cut. In fact, our proposed agreement provided increases in hourly wages and benefits as well as some new pay increases for performance and job longevity. Also, our proposal includes a Performance Incentive Levitra Award that would enable all employees to receive a quarterly award based on the company meeting certain performance targets.”Dover Chemical has 190 employees at its facility at 3676 Davis Rd.“The company attempted through the collective bargaining process to make our business more competitive in the global marketplace,” Colvin said. “We are facing unprecedented new competition from all over the world during an economic time where we have seen a dramatic downturn in demand for our products.“We will attempt to fulfill our customers’ requirements while we evaluate our options and work with the union leadership to better understand and resolve our differences through collective bargaining.”

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Feb 1

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