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...though some goods would have smaller cuts. The offer is "Europe's bottom line," says the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, although France--whose farmers retain near mythic political clout--still may veto any agreement it doesn't like. Says Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: "It does appear to me that we will not make as much progress in Hong Kong as we had hoped...
...blessings, we are dismayed to hear news from Washington about Katrina fatigue in Congress and the decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to disband its emergency-housing program on Dec. 1 for those still scattered to the four winds. Members of Congress appear to be tired of hearing about the needs of evacuees, the lives lost and the vestiges of formerly thriving communities along the devastated Gulf Coast. Legislators are beginning to turn their attention elsewhere, while hurricane exiles wait for a sign that it is safe to go home again. But we are all suffering from Katrina...
...Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them...
...Harvard myth: that the University is a leisure-class training ground where only the wealthiest are welcome. The new recruiting techniques, such as targeting low-income applicants by zip code and paying personal visits to students in economically depressed regions, aim to make Harvard’s resources appear more accessible to the working class...