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Mere days from the primary election, two of Cambridge’s biggest political stars went head-to-head last night in a rancorous yet inconclusive debate at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum—a microcosm of a state Senate election that observers deem too close to call...
...governments being urged to use tax incentives and subsidies to woo their consumers off of fossil fuels. Elsewhere, however, it was the EU in the environmentalists' doghouse for nixing any discussion of the $300 billion that rich nations pay their own farmers in subsidies, which the poorer countries deem unfair protectionism that prices their exports out of the market and stymies development. And a number of African leaders bristled at their own failure to stop the Europeans attaching a democracy-and-good-governance clause to calls for greater aid to the developing world...
...budget travelers are willing to spend more money on things they deem to be of high value,” Iturralde said...
...Americans don't care about the World Cup exemplifies the U.S.'s disdain for other cultures [ESSAY, June 17]. Stein should feel sorry for the millions of Americans who have no notion of geography and cannot come to terms with cultures other than their own, which they always deem superior. That lack of interest breeds anger elsewhere around the globe. Sadly, it seems that the only way some in the U.S. can get acquainted with other countries is through war. NICOLAS BAYCHELIER Chungli, Taiwan...
...funded counterinsurgency in Latin America since the 1980s. In response, the Marxist FARC has stepped up its violence. That is drawing more fire still from the nation's outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups, the Colombian Self-Defense Units, or AUC, which are infamous for massacring villagers they deem friendly to the FARC. On election night, Uribe seemed to concede that his presidency could, at least in the short term, worsen Colombia's interminable agony. "I wasn't invited to a party," he told reporters. "Were...