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...Cypriot politicians to Turkish Cypriots' claims to govern the north seem to have sharpened. Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot demands for international recognition have grown. In particular, the easing of restrictions on air travel - so that flights from countries other than just Turkey could land at their airport - would be a boon to local tourism. Turkish Cypriots would like their courts and universities to be recognized by other countries too. In his "presidential" mansion, a cluster of old colonial-era sandstone buildings, the Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat complains: "We are facing very unfair treatment. Lifting the international isolation on Turkish...
...showmanship is a boon beyond the briefing room as well. Snow hit the campaign trail this fall, an unprecedented move for a White House press secretary. He headlined 17 fund raisers for G.O.P. candidates in the two months leading up to the midterms. Of course, it wasn't just Snow's popularity that put him on the stump. If Snow's conservative bona fides have made him as familiar to the Republican base as Bush is, Snow is also, for the moment, probably better liked. In the end, if a candidate would rather be seen with the press secretary than...
...biggest winemakers account for 85% of the market, and they have reacted much faster to the crisis, cutting prices and taking the financial hit early by writing down the value of their stock. Some grape growers are pruning back vines or switching to citrus or almonds. And, in a boon to consumers, many producers have been selling their surplus stocks as "cleanskins" - bargain-priced bottles that show neither the winemaker nor the winery. Even so, Sam Tolley, chief executive of the awbc, reckons it will take at least another two years before supply and demand get back in line. Letting...
...serve the supersize, post-Panamax vessels--those carrying more than 5,000 20-ft.-long containers--that many consider the future of commercial-cargo shipping. The canal's Old World competitor, Egypt's Suez Canal, can already accommodate the bigger vessels. A resized Panama Canal could be a boon to U.S. ports on the Gulf and East coasts, which currently handle post-Panamax cargo directly to and from Asia only via the lengthier Suez route. Says Gary LaGrange, CEO of the Port of New Orleans: "This will be monumental for maritime trade on the Gulf Coast...
...Bolton's almost cheerful description of what he called a "remarkable" Security Council session reflected a surprising reality - the North Korean nuclear test may actually be a boon to the U.S.' long-frustrated efforts to achieve consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has done her best to leave behind the Bush Administration's go-it-alone cowboy diplomacy of the first term and build real international coalitions, but until the test she had no success convincing China and South Korea, the North's primary trading partners, to leverage their economic relationships into serious pressure...