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...host of the upcoming event, according to an e-mail obtained by TIME, is a lobbying firm co-founded by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's brother and Senate majority leader Bill Frist's former chief counsel. FedEx has thrown a similar shindig, as has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Attendees get to mingle below the radar at the publicity- free events, which are billed at less than $50 a head to comply with Senate ethics rules. "Why have a lobbyist pay for it?" asks a senior Republican's top staffer. "I think that [question] answers itself." --By Adam...
...dictatorship. Everyone come to the Congress at 5 p.m." Labor leaders, human- rights activists and virtually the entire civilian political establishment quickly packed the halls of Congress, while a throng of some 100,000 massed outside. When the President defiantly proclaimed before the Congress, "Democracy is not negotiable," the chamber erupted in applause. After his 15-minute speech, Alfonsin appeared on a balcony and cried, "Thank you for defending our democracy! Thank...
ROBERTO A. CORNELIO, COO ILLINOIS HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Chicago...
...pose to geopolitical stability. Admittedly, a 2.1% revaluation of the renminbi stops well short of the 27.5% adjustment proposed by several U.S. Senators. Their bill, which would impose damaging tariffs on Chinese imports, had garnered surprising bipartisan traction in Congress and could well have been passed by the upper chamber later this year. The China bashers certainly did not get anything close to what they were seeking, but the wind is now out of their sails. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's statement that he welcomes the currency shift makes it likely that protectionist legislation will now lose support...
...value should better reflect China's buoyant economic growth and its booming trade with the rest of the world. But the 2.1% shift is so slight that it amounts to little more than "a toe in the water," says David O'Rear, chief economist at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce...