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...ties gyrate with fashionably dressed young women; at small tables newly affluent entrepreneurs sip drinks between calls on cellular phones. The young people at J.J.'s revel in something unprecedented for China: personal and professional liberation. Those with the will and skill to take advantage of economic reform are freer than ever to seek their fortune, their mate and their own identity...
NAFTA is important, however, primarily for reasons going beyond its own economic effects. Its rejection by the U.S. could topple a much bigger domino: a proposed agreement to promote freer trade among the more than 100 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade could die. That would abort an expansion of world trade that many nations are counting on to help end the recession afflicting the industrial world. The U.S. would be especially hurt: the GATT agreement contains protections for "intellectual property" (patents, copyrights) that American exporters sorely need but do not now have...
What you learned during that meal was very interesting, but not surprising: everyone at the table was the oldest kid, the achiever. You also learned that everyone's younger sibling is having much more fun. The younger siblings are happier, freer, cooler, more frequently drunk, than we ever were in high school...
Trade is becoming freer -- surely Congress will eventually pass NAFTA, as Presidents Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon have all, in a remarkable display of bipartisan good sense, been urging...
Saturday evening: The vomit comes faster, freer. Among those who attempt a pilgrimage to Boston, the number of stories about such-and-such blowing chunks on the subway is mindboggling. The rowdy party-goers who stick closer to Harvard, on the other hand, have one destination: any party that will let them...