NM symphony reaches agreement with musicians

The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra's management and musicians have reached an agreement that will allow the concert season to resume.

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Scoop: Abdul negotiating a return to ‘Idol’

Now that the “Dancing With the Stars” cast has been announced, and Paula Abdul’s name is not on the list, negotiations between Abdul and Fox for her return to “American Idol” have become more intense.

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Pedro Martinez might sign with Cubs, Rays

Pedro Martinez could be back on a major league mound soon.

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New approach for US in global climate change talks

At its first negotiations on climate change, the Obama administration is trying to convince other countries that the U.S. does care about global warming and wants to shape an international accord.

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Broadway Stagehands Strike Authorized

The president of the international stagehands union officially authorized a Broadway strike Thursday but declined to set a date for it, the union said.

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Mayor Sees No Immediate B'dway Shutdown

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered to help get stalled labor negotiations between Broadway stagehands and theater producers back on track, but feels "at least for the next month or so, there is no danger of a work stoppage or lockout on Broadway."

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Broadway Producers to Impose Last Offer

Broadway producers say they will impose some of the terms of their latest contract offer on the stagehands' union Monday, a move that could increase the possibility of a work stoppage shutting down most Broadway theaters during the busy fall season.

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Broadway Shows Will Go on This Weekend

The two sides may not be talking in the tense labor negotiations between Broadway producers and Local One, the stagehands' union, but shows will go on this weekend as scheduled.

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Producers Make Final Offer to Stagehands

Is the curtain going up on a Broadway labor showdown?

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Broadway Contract Talks Resuming Tuesday

Stagehands and producers negotiated until nearly midnight Friday, hoping to resolve contract issues that could shut down much of Broadway just as the fall theater season gets under way.

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Jewish settlers have sought to prevent building inspectors from enforcing recently announced limits on construction in the occupied West Bank.

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Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Should the Obama administration have a dialogue with Iran? Can we still talk to these people? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations?

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DUBAI: Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said he does not expect fresh sanctions against Iran as imposition of internationally approved economic curbs has become outdated.

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Terrorism Negotiation 101

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Last week, I had the opportunity to address over forty members of the United States Congress with the goal to encourage their recognition of the importance of engaging the Iranian people and their ongoing struggle for human rights and democracy.

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A hair-raising account of the searing events of fall 2008, and the frantic efforts to save Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, et al. The book is titled Too Big to Fail, due out from Viking later this month, and the author is Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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I am not being hyperbolic or grandiose. The drama now playing out with Iran is a chapter in a long story. That story—of the gradually rising number of members of the nuclear club—is arguably the single most important national-security question of our time.

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The Obama administration's positive tone following its first diplomatic encounter with Iran covers a deep and growing gloom in Washington and European capitals.

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But behind the scenes and away from the C-Span cameras, their united front has given way to intraparty tensions, not just in the committee but in Congress generally.

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An alliance of the world's small island states have issued a joint plea to global leaders to take drastic measures to combat climate change or be complicit in what they say is "benign genocide".

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Iran has submitted a new package of proposals to the six countries involved in nuclear talks, describing them as "a  window of opportunity for those who are ready to enter into real  negotiations on the basis of mutual respect".

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Four months later, the U.S. is still negotiating with North Korea for the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

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The BBC's Stephen Gibbs, in Honduras, says Costa Rican President Oscar Arias faces a huge challenge as mediator.

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View-Master, the Fisher-Price toy with little 3-D picture discs of mountains, rivers and caverns that kids could rotate through a viewfinder, is the latest vintage toy getting a second life on the big screen.

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Ahmadinejad Indicates That He Wants Public Talks Directly With Obama

Iranian Deputy Despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has indicated in a speech today that he wants to conduct talks with President Barack Obama. However, he doesn't want to have the normal discussions that involve seeking privacy behind closed doors and compromising.

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One can continue waging the argument with the United States over settlements by citing mathematical figures, numbers and formulas on natural growth or natural development, and perhaps doing so is the correct thing, but whoever believes that settling the territories of Judea and S …

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After months of Cyprus reunification talks, what comes out of the negotiating room more often than anything else, is shouting.

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Organizations like the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue do much work mediating "hot conflicts" in various countries.

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Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon spoke to Channel 2 on Saturday about the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, held earlier this week, saying that Israel's government will not allow the U.S.

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The United States firmly opposes Iran's nuclear ambitions, but after decades of estrangement, the United States and Iran look closer to sitting together at the negotiating table than at any point since 1979.

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"If Israel continues not to accept solving the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, then the other option before us is one democratic state in which Muslims, Christians and Jews live side by side enjoying the same rights," Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa …

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The UK government is negotiating with manufacturers for supplies of a swine flu vaccine even though no one has called the recent ourbreak a pandemic. A few cases of the swine flu have been scattered around the country -- Northern Ireland, London, eastern England, and Hampton.

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The Boston Globe's largest union reached a tentative deal with the New York Times Co. shortly after 3 a.m.

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Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat – Two high-level ranking Hamas leaders have vehemently emphasized that the Hamas organization does not operate in any Arab or non-Arab territory and that it has no military activity except in Palestine.

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A potential thaw in relations on the Korean peninsula. Talk is better than missile firing don't you think?

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