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After months of effort, numerous surveys and hours of meetings the Task Force responsible for reconstituting the now-disolved Student Advisory Committee (SAC) released its draft proposal for student involvement in the IOP last week. The result: A plan that looks eerily similar...
...version of my script, most of which were smart and helpful. It also had these comments she forgot to delete: "acts II and III are bizarrely rough--amateurish, not funny, awful structure"; "i'm actually shocked that anyone thinks it's good enough to turn in as a first draft, let alone a finished one"; "makes me all the more sure that joel cannot write this series"; "I think we should find out who edits joel's column and get him/her in here!!" and, most painfully, "tell him to use a real font...
...until I remembered that I write mean things about people every week in a national magazine. Still, just knowing it's been thought out and edited makes it feel stylized and less real than that e-mail. You should have read what I wrote about Zalaznick in the first draft...
...Even the terms of the proposed FTAA agreement indicate huge steps forward in the hemispheric agenda. A draft of the initial text was approved by negotiators in nine distinct trade sectors last December: a forbidding, 1,200-page document in which virtually every word is surrounded by brackets that indicate a lack of full agreement on the substance. "About the only things that aren't bracketed are the chapter titles," says a negotiator. The draft includes proposed tariff reductions on at least 7,000 products, from orange juice to rolled steel. As a map of negotiations still to come...
...Brazil already dominates its own Mercosur trading bloc, but it is smaller, weaker and much less sweeping in its free-trade arrangements than NAFTA. Accommodating to proposed FTAA rules that are similar to NAFTA's - the draft text mirrors the NAFTA agreement - is therefore seen as threatening. "Rightly or wrongly, the perception that much is expected from our side while little is offered in exchange is indeed widespread," Brazilian foreign minister Celso Lafer declared in Washington last month...