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President Barack Obama has been doing his part to help Chicago win the 2016 Summer Olympics. He has taped messages of support for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and hosted a reception at the White House to help raise his adopted hometown's profile. Now he's flying to Copenhagen to personally help Chicago with its final push...
Chicago estimates that the cost of hosting the 2016 Olympics will be $4.8 billion. If its bid finds favor with the IOC this week in Copenhagen, the city might be well advised to get venues shovel-ready as quickly as possible, for it has one advantage that Atlanta didn't: access to a portion of Washington's $787 billion economic stimulus package, much of which is still being allocated...
...Brazil, with the world's fifth largest population and ninth largest economy, a serious international player. He's stumping hard for a permanent Brazilian seat on the U.N. Security Council and more input from developing nations in setting global trade and economic policy. (He is also personally cheerleading in Copenhagen for the Brazilian bid for the 2016 Olympics, a move that may have helped convince Obama to head to Denmark himself to back Chicago's candidacy.) It's hard to keep a pristine non-interventionist tradition with ambitions like those - and increasingly, the hemisphere is telling Brazil that...
...news that began on Sept. 22 with a high-level U.N. summit on warming. Before "Climate Week" began, the U.S. Senate made intimations that it would not likely vote on a carbon cap-and-trade bill before the year was up, dimming the chances for a global deal at Copenhagen. But, then, China pledged to improve energy efficiency, while progress was made toward crafting a way to use global carbon markets to slow tropical deforestation. That gave environmentalists some hope. "Overall, I still feel better than I did a week ago," said Carstensen. "We had 100 leaders...
...Pascale Joannin, general manager of the Robert Schumann Foundation, a think tank, says that while "Merkel is more Francophile than Sarkozy is Germanophile," the pair "have grown used to one another." Joannin expects swift action to coordinate the two nations' positions at the December conference on climate change in Copenhagen, and on fixing the top jobs at the new European Commission. Even before the election, the two nations worked together to push for a crackdown on tax havens and for bankers' bonuses to be curbed...