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...Haiti: this week high-ranking officials will travel to a meeting of the Caribbean community in hopes of formalizing their approval. The obvious alternative is to open wide-ranging discussions with Castro aimed at swapping an end to the U.S. trade embargo for Cuban reforms leading to a freer economy and politics. Some Administration policymakers are known to favor the idea, but Clinton and his top aides are adamantly opposed. Defense Secretary Perry dismisses the idea as "a loser...
...serious error to start encouraging trade wars and undo the great progress that has been made towards a more cooperative world. There are also many humanitarian reasons to renew China's MFN status and preserve free trade, since the free movement of goods and services almost always leads to freer societies...
Candeloro fancies himself a young Corleone. His approach to a program is freer-than-freestyle, and he is the most crowd-pleasing male skater to come along since Browning, radiating a cheeky sense of the ridiculous. At one point Candeloro's answering-machine tape told callers to leave a message because he might be with a beautiful young woman. At the moment he sports a tiny cross in his ear, "so small," he says with relish, "the judges...
...their kids grow up. But that presumes that older women will always marry men their age or older. Once it is more acceptable for women over 45 to have children, the pool of men open to them expands. Then younger men who want to start families may feel freer to fall in love with older women. For those couples, there indeed could be better living through chemistry...
Since exports have accounted for 55% of U.S. economic growth since 1987, tariff reductions of the kind ensured by NAFTA are certain to make American industry even more trade-oriented. Bill Clinton's effort to promote freer trade along the Pacific Rim also comes at a time when demand for consumer items -- everything from sports equipment to kitchen appliances -- is rising in Asian nations that have long given priority to savings over spending. "With Asia growing through the creation of domestic demand, we can jump in," says Lawrence Chimerine of the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank in Washington...