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Will the FTA get legislative approval? Despite the flaws and compromises, the deal deserves to become law. But it's an election year in both countries, and time is running out for law makers. Democratic candidate John Kerry and Labor Opposition leader Mark Latham are free traders at heart (who knows - President-elect Kerry and Prime Minister Latham may be congratulating each other come New Year's Day). But the anti-free-trade scaremongers and interest groups will be shouting louder this year than the champions of an almost-free trade agreement. It's just too tight to call...
Frustratingly, Kerry continues to play the history game, even as it becomes increasingly clear that the most urgent reasons to elect him have to do with the future. All but one of the last few press releases from his campaign mention Bush more than Kerry, leaving precious little space for a positive plan for the future. Worse, when he does lay out innovative policies, there is little sign of them in the press. When Vanessa Kerry, his daughter, spoke to students at Harvard last week, she offered the most compelling case for a Kerry presidency I have yet heard, and?...
...fortunate that the circumstances of the change allow Harvard retirees to elect to keep UHS as their primary provider. But deep concern on the part of employees is well-founded. No end is in sight to the extraordinary surge in health care costs; the University could conceivably cease funding MedEx at some later date and close the doors of UHS to its retired faculty and staff. Nothing short of a guarantee to the contrary will do for reassurance...
MEANWHILE IN SERBIA ... Every Vote a Winner Poll-weary Serbs, whose efforts to elect a new President have been thwarted three times in the past 15 months due to low voter participation, can finally see light at the bottom of the ballot box. Parliamentarians got round the 50% turnout threshold by simply abolishing it, paving the way for a new election as early as this month...
...Chances of realizing that "best-case" scenario appear increasingly remote. The Iraqis themselves are in a hurry to elect their own government, and the Bush administration is determined to hand off political authority in Baghdad. The interim thus created suggests both a greater role for the UN, and that the major political force driving Iraq's transition will be Iraqis not closely allied with Washington. Despite its heavy investment of life and treasure in regime-change in Iraq, the Bush administration may soon be approaching an "If you love something, let it go" moment...