Sometimes they cursed each other, sometimes they shook hands, sometimes they walked away from each other in disgust. None of it -- not the ear-splitting chants, the pounding drums or the back-and-forth debate between 70,000 protesters -- changed the minds of Wisconsin lawmakers dug into a stalemate over Republican efforts to scrap union rights for almost all public workers.
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