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...although representatives from both the WGA and SAG insist that they don’t want to go on strike, a standoff between the guilds and the industry seems inevitable. Talks with the WGA broke down on March 1 and will not resume for another two weeks; the SGA has failed to even begin negotiations. Sticking points include the best way to overhaul so-called “outmoded” residual payment formulas for syndicated television shows and movies released on DVD, as well as “creative rights” (in the case of the WGA) that...
Nonetheless the Administration continues to insist that the President will produce a coherent--if unspecified--global-warming policy soon. Environmentalists are fearing the worst. Before Bush's CO2 reversal, the White House created a so-called carbon rump group to reassess the U.S. position on emissions. An Administration official insists that the work the panel is doing is "a high-level, intense review," and while that may be true, it's also a fact that in-house study teams such as this are often simply places where orphan ideas are sent to die. More substantively, Vice President Cheney has been...
...that the Americans and Chinese should be stuck at the equivalent of Bugs and Daffy's "Duck Season! Wabbit Season!" - a stalemated schoolyard argument. You will recall that in the cartoon, Bugs Bunny, the great American trickster, won that exchange by the simple expedient of reversing the order and insisting that it was, indeed, wabbit season. Which led the witless Duck to insist, in his turn, that it was, damn it, duck season. BLAM...
...Tuesday, some in the administration felt that they were being stonewalled. Jiang continued to insist that the fault lay with the U.S. The Chinese president also called for an end to U.S. surveillance flights. At 2 p.m., Bush walked into the Oval Office and immediately asked Rice to get Brigadier General Neal Sealock on the phone. Sealock, the U.S. military attaché in Beijing, had finally been allowed in to see the crew, but for just 40 minutes under strict conditions: no recording devices, no individual conversations, the Chinese always present. The crew had been able to convey word that...
...characteristically wooden President Jiang even appeared to be enjoying himself, as he casually set off, two days into the crisis, for a 10-day visit to Latin America. He paused at the airport to insist that the U.S. apologize for the incident, smiling giddily through his farewell photo...