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...risky ways to dampen the effects of cheap foreign labor on American wages, but they are the tools of Democrats, not Republicans. Trade deals like NAFTA can require member nations to have a high minimum wage, maintain strict environmental regulations or guarantee the right to unionize. Such rules directly confront the problems of inhumanely low wages and reckless environmental degradation--the Third World production shortcuts that Buchanan says justify his social tariff. But Buchanan's ideology won't countenance this solution since it involves the transnational panels of adjudication that he deems inimical to sovereignty. Nor do many mainstream Republicans...
Besides such logistical hassles, the players sometimes had to confront skepticism from classmates. The Black and White's reputation for partying, it seemed, exceeded that for playing...
Although we would like to think of sports as a world apart, a sacred preserve spared the problems that confront society, the unavoidable reality is that society's problems concern us all, leaving neither housewife nor sports he to unaffected. The news that makes the front page inevitably finds it way, in some form, to the sports page...
According to Ferrara and Frantz, the Harvard football team has not given up on its lofty goals for the season. The players clearly believe that they can win their final three games. And if they fail, they are willing to confront that failure head...
...soldiers. The subsequent years of seemingly incessant Balkan warfare made it unlikely Clinton would ever have to redeem that pledge, but remarkable diplomatic progress in recent months--much of it stemming from the efforts of Clinton's envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke--has forced the President to confront his commitment. Last week the indefatigable Holbrooke was flitting between the Balkan capitals in an effort to, as he told TIME, "get fuller compliance" on the region's fragile cease-fire. It was his final trip before three-way peace talks, refereed by the U.S., kick...