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In a swanky convention hall in the center of Paris, French entrepreneur Nicolas Garreau sips his orange juice and curses his lot. It's the March 2001 meeting of First Tuesday - a monthly soirée at which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists exchange war stories and business cards - and Garreau...
Beijing China ratified a U.N. human rights treaty, but indicated it would follow its own laws in regard to the labor rights clause of the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. China recognizes only one state-sanctioned labor organization, bars independent unions and outlaws strikes. Scores of activists...
Elsewhere in Europe, public distaste for the concept of cloning has reached the highest ranks of government. Thursday, legislatures in Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, Spain and Georgia ratified a protocol to its Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. It is, according to the council, "the first and only binding international agreement...
In the early 1980s, he held what he called a "second thoughts" convention, inviting activist friends from the 1960s who shared his disillusionment. In the 1980s, he wrote a series of stinging biographies of the Kennedys, Fords and Rockefellers.
To European leaders, the fear is that George Bush will act as if he's president of Texas: not exactly isolationist, but uncurious, prone to lecture, unilateralist. Even during the Clinton era they found Republicans in Congress hostile to the sorts of multilateral, institution-building initiatives that come naturally to...