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...latest round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was supposed to make Diarra's modest wishes come true. Launched in 2001 and named for the Qatari city where the initial meeting was held, the Doha "development" round is intended to thrash out new trade arrangements for agriculture, with a specific focus on reducing the rich world's subsidies and opening Western markets to the developing world's producers. In return, the vision goes, the developing world will allow more access to its service industries, such as insurance and banking...
...latest round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was supposed to make Diarra's modest wishes come true. Launched in 2001, the Doha "development" round is intended to thrash out new trade arrangements for agriculture, with a specific focus on reducing the rich world's subsidies and opening Western markets to the developing world's producers. In return, the vision goes, the developing world will allow more access to its service industries, such as insurance and banking...
...Rushing will be based in Washington for Al Jazeera, which is backed by the government of Qatar and headquartered its the capital, Doha. Al Jazeera-International, which Rushing compares to the international versions of CNN and BBC, plans to start broadcasting in the U.S. in the spring of 2006. Rushing will likely do set pieces on issues, interviews and perhaps even have a 30-minute international affairs show. The format is still being finalized, but Rushing knows who he considers models: NBC's Tim Russert and Bob Costas, and National Public Radio's Terry Gross. The target audience, Rushing says...
...deeply suspicious of Mandelson, viewing him as Blair's man in Brussels. That could make it hard for him to persuade Chirac and other leaders that a further liberalization of trade is in their interest. "There's a much higher risk of only a modest outcome to the Doha round," because of antiglobalization fears in Europe, says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics. Others are more pessimistic. Kenneth S. Rogoff, a former research director at the International Monetary Fund, says: "One has to be very concerned that we will see total trade paralysis over...
That is all Parsons can ask for. Relaxing in his threadbare office in an old villa across from the site of his future headquarters, he couldn't be happier being cast as the underdog. "Some are saying that it can't be done out of Doha," he declares with a bravado that would make a Ted Turner proud. "Well, they always said it couldn't be done out of Atlanta. But CNN proved everyone wrong." Come next year, Parsons will discover if he has done the same. --With reporting by Amany Radwan/Cairo