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...complexities of their interactions are The Center of the World’s greatest success. Florence and Richard are each a unique blend of cultural stereotype and individual nuance, so that they manage to be both extremely real and yet broadly understandable in terms of the issues they confront...
...among foreign investors, a corresponding crash in currency value and a decline in economic growth. It is easier for less-powerful nations to opt into trade agreements in order to maintain investor confidence, promote investment and pay off their debt. Second, in the negotiation of such a treaty we confront a failure of democracy already present. For example, the administration has only just begun to release the preliminary text of the FTAA, despite a March 15 letter signed by 50 members of Congress demanding that the U.S. Trade Representative supply the documents to the public...
...finger-pointing and posturing, and lectures from the Chinese side on who is to blame. It was to be expected that the meetings would start out as an ugly gripe session. This was not simply diplomats talking, it was the military establishment on each side having to confront difficult issues, both of principle and of a technical nature...
There is poignant symbolism in baseball’s return from its enforced hibernation. The season of regeneration is upon us, whether we’re fans or not. It’s time to rouse ourselves for new challenges, to confront old problems in fresh and productive ways, to remember what makes life worth living...
These are difficult days for Birmingham, Ala. As two of the four men charged in a fatal 1963 church bombing are finally called to trial for their alleged crime, the city once known as "Bombingham" is forced to confront one of the most painful wounds of the civil rights...