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...hoped his offers on agriculture would kick-start negotiations on trade in services and industrial tariffs, but the talks barely moved. European farm protection was once again seen as the biggest global obstacle to free and fair trade, and the E.U.'s claims to leadership in the wto sounded hollow. So is there any chance that 2006 will be brighter? "Economic reform is the A and Z of Europe now," says MacShane. Perhaps once the big Continental economies pick up, he suggests, Europe can feel its oats again. Others doubt whether Europe's current crisis-laden leadership has the clout...
...courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction to the trauma following the attacks on New York City and Washington. But with Cheney himself lobbying to exclude the cia from future restrictions on torture abroad, excuses about the special nature of that time ring hollow. The irony is that the controversy Washington has unleashed by its conduct threatens to undermine real achievements in the struggle against terror. A case in point is rendition. That's a practice that involves the transfer of a terror suspect from one country to another outside the formal extradition process. The overwhelming...
...being housed temporarily in a local hotel, he said. “Both have been offered new units and we hope to finalize those arrangements by tomorrow,” he wrote in an e-mail. The fire travelled quickly through the wood frame building, facilitated by its hollow walls, Gialanis said. He added that the house collapsed when fire crews removed the second floor in an attempt to prevent the walls from caving in. Harvard has not determined the extent of the damage, Wrinn said, and has not decided what it will do with the property. The cold temperature?...
...you’ve got even a sprig of imagination, you’ll know Harvard’s House system isn’t working. Ignore the hollow claims—a House is more than just where you sleep. It’s also got to be a community that you wish to identify with, a place where you’re socially secure for three years...
...canine mascot, Handsome Dan, knows how to pick sides, choosing to take a stroll to visit the eventual victors at the end of halftime.And in the stands, Harvard students yet again out-heckled their blue-blooded counterparts. Redundant shouts of “Harvard sucks” rang hollow against “Where’s your bulldog?” and “Yale starts wars,” the latter in response to the ridiculous halftime show in which some blue people running around the field pretended to shoot down a bunch of red people running...