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...reports that the baseball commissioner's office rejected the contract because of the indictment provision, they're false. On Tuesday, the office told the Giants that language involving the personal appearances that Bonds would have to make on behalf of the team was inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement. "It was a minor thing," said baseball spokesman Richard Levin. "We told them to delete it or rephrase it." By the end of the day, the AP reported that the Giants had already sent Bonds' agent a revised contract, but that he was not yet ready to sign...
...today. Where he was an unapologetic free trader, for instance, she declares, "If all you say is, you're for free trade, I think that's denying reality." Hillary distances herself--gently--from Bill's hardest-fought achievement in that area, the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. "NAFTA was inherited by the Clinton Administration," she insists. "Bill believed in it, and I believe in the general principles that it represented, but what we have learned is that we have to drive a tougher bargain...
...individually or in combination, that we can get to universal coverage, and universal coverage my goal, and I think increasingly, there's political consensus for it, which there wasn't back in 1993 and 1994. There wasn't even the means of getting there. There wasn't really an agreement that we needed to go there. And that has changed...
...voted against CAFTA [the Central American Free Trade Agreement], because I looked at the facts and I thought we have no environmental or labor standards-something that I believe is within the rubric of free trade. Free trade doesn't mean trade without rules. It doesn't mean a race to the bottom. It's supposed to be based on comparative advantage, so the trading partners all improve their standard of living. If you don't have some rules that will create conditions for employees to be treated fairly, the money is all going to go to the pockets...
...TIME: Do you think NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed by Bill Clinton] was the right thing...