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...entering a counterintuitive era when closing bases costs money, the GATT trade agreement costs money, and reforming welfare costs money. And the public is already kind of sticker-shocked...
Washington has office softball leagues, just like a normal city. Though the players may have an obsessive interest in GATT, land reclamation and the like, their team names betray a weakness for bad (occasionally vulgar) puns that is common to many Americans...
Bill Maher, by contrast, has folksy good looks and a silky, matter-of-fact delivery that owes more to Jack Benny than to Rush Limbaugh. Yet what other current comedian looks for humor in the GATT talks and China's most-favored- nation trading status? That's just what Maher does on Politically Incorrect, his Comedy Central show that features the most eclectic political round tables on TV. Maher has mediated between Harvey Fierstein and ex-Mayor of Washington Marion Barry; brought Martin Short together with Jimmy Breslin; made Tom Hayden lighten up and Corbin Bernsen look smart. All without...
With the recent passage of GATT, a hard-fought victory for free trade, it would be a 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...
...Indian parliamentary debate over GATT...