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...Clinton loaded her speeches with a laundry list of policy promises: to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement; provide universal health coverage; restore manufacturing, with an emphasis on new jobs providing clean energy; get rid of "every single tax break" that rewards companies for sending jobs overseas; abolish the No Child Left Behind program; forgive college debt for students who agree to do public service; reduce gas prices, in part by taking a tougher line with the Saudis; take better care of veterans; begin pulling troops out of Iraq. She boasted of the endorsements she has received from retired...
What Would the Neighbors Say? Neither Uribe nor Chavez needs any more bad international publicity right now. Uribe's domestic approval ratings may be higher than the Colombian sierras, but he can't secure a free trade agreement with the U.S., for example, because Congress is too wary of his government's alleged ties to Colombia's bloodthirsty right-wing paramilitary armies and because of human rights abuses by the Colombian military. Nor is he getting global kudos for sending his troops over a neighbor's border on Saturday in an operation denounced by Ecuador's leftist President and Chavez...
...one—even as a senior professor specializing in constitutional law—no one is so experienced that they don’t learn something new from her coverage. She is a national treasure.”THE WEATHER OF THE TIMESGreenhouse’s buyout agreement comes as the Times attempts to cut roughly 100 jobs in the face of a pressing economic situation.In an e-mail circulated to the Times newsroom yesterday and released to The Crimson, Executive Editor Bill Keller referred to what he called “rough economic weather” before presenting...
...Internet Safety Technical Task Force, headed by John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94 of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is the main product of an agreement last month between all fifty state Attorneys General and MySpace to take steps to better protect underage users. By the end of the year, the task force will publish recommendations for MySpace to improve its safety policies...
...violence has bred a fear that cannot be easily erased, even by the peace agreement. Rift Valley tourist towns, known for their wild flamingos, were particularly hard-struck by bloodshed. A house in Naivasha was deliberately set on fire, killing 14 people inside. Idyllic little towns like Njoro are now divided along distinct tribal lines. Meanwhile, unkempt fields littered with corn stalks line both sides of roads that wind through the territory of various ethnic groups. Farmers say they are too afraid to prepare their harvests for fear of being attacked...