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...moderate immediate effects. Some U.S. jobs would be lost to low-wage Mexican competition, and some jobs would be created in American industries that would have an easier time selling their products in Mexico. But the numbers would be relatively small on both sides, and it is anyone's guess where the balance would be struck. Most reasonably impartial economists believe that the result would be a modest net increase in U.S. jobs...
...enjoy misery, of course, which is perfectly understandable. If you want to wallow in self-pity, spend every moment around them, moan to your friends and write sappy poetry. But if I were you, I'd get a life. Watch TV, go for a bike ride, whatever; my guess is no one is worth that much heartache...
Lewis also related some of his personal past, recalling his tenure covering the Supreme Court for the Times. "I became interested in law at a young age. I was fated to be a lawyer, but I guess it didn't work out," he said...
...Congress greets any hint of escalating U.S. involvement in humanitarian intervention with vociferous disapproval. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin has begun to second-guess himself. When Americans began calling on Clinton to bring the boys back home, Aspin decided not to grant his military commander's request for more tanks in Somalia. His decision was not publicized then, but imagine the uproar had he announced that he would send in additional tanks. Ironically, those tanks could have saved the lives of the American soldiers killed by Aidid's men on October...
...NAFTA were truly not in the overall, long-term interest of the American worker, my guess is Clinton would oppose it. Even as it was, he did not simply accept the document President Bush handed him. He insisted first on negotiating side agreements that speak to at least some of the concerns of environmentalists and labor...