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...worried that Bush's message has been long on showmanship and short on facts. White House officials insist that 2006 will be "a transitional year" in Iraq, and have made it clear they will push Iraqi officials to swiftly form a government after this week's elections. Bush's gargantuan PLAN FOR VICTORY banner was not there when Bush went before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington last week, nor did the event have the rapturous crowd that is the trademark of this White House's advance team. Indeed, Bush's appearance was so hastily arranged that the organization...
...this track, Volcano! again channels a younger Radiohead, recalling the British band’s tormented epic “Paranoid Android.” Surprisingly nimble given its gargantuan size, “Red and White Bells” shifts through a handful of carefully orchestrated yet chaotic movements, before ending in a massive eruption of sound. It’s as if they took the horns from The Unicorns and showed them the right way to noodle around with electronics...
Next to Venezuela's gargantuan oil industry, gold once seemed an unlikely target of resource nationalism. But Venezuela possesses about 2.5% of the world's 1 billion oz. of unmined gold reserves, and experts say about half its gold is mined by some 30,000 illegal miners. So as bullion approaches $500 per oz.--and as miners call attention to their squalid lives--gold has become a hot political as well as economic commodity...
...meeting in Hong Kong is gearing up to fit this same fractious, muddled pattern. Even by the standards of global trade talks, it will be gargantuan: government ministers and their aides from 148 countries are scheduled to attend, not to mention thousands of lobbyists, armies of protesters from around the world, and some 3,500 journalists. What's striking this time is the palpable nervousness in the air. The meeting is billed as critical for wrapping up a new multilateral trade accord, the ninth since 1947. This one is known as the Doha Development Round because it was conceived four...
...exemption from antitrust laws. That exemption allows insurers to share information and, according to their opponents, engage in collusive premium-setting policies that would be illegal in any other industry. In state legislatures, many proposed bills would enlarge the authority of insurance commissioners to block arbitrary policy cancellations and gargantuan premium increases. The Florida department of insurance has written a proposed bill that would require insurers to disclose what discounts and surcharges they apply to premium rates. Without that information, says Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter, "the rate itself is meaningless." He adds, "We think insurers need someone to look over...